Snark may refer to:
Fictional creatures
*
Snark (Lewis Carroll), a fictional animal species in Lewis Carroll's ''The Hunting of the Snark'' (1876)
*
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This is a list of alien races that appear in Marvel Comics.
Overview
There are countless different extraterrestrial races in Marvel Comics universe. The vast majority are humanoid in structure.
Galactic Council
The Galactic Council is the assem ...
, a race of fictional aliens in Marvel Comics publications, commonly referred to as "Snarks"
* Corporal Snark, a
minor character in ''Catch-22'' (1961) by Joseph Heller
* A species of creature in ''
The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage''
* The Snark, fictional alien machine that visits Earth in the novel ''
In the Ocean of Night
''In the Ocean of Night'' is a 1977 fix-up hard science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford. It is the first novel in his Galactic Center Saga. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1977, and for the Locus Awa ...
'' (1977) by Gregory Benford
* A fictional creature from the TV series ''
The Troop''
* A fictional creature from the book series ''
A Song of Ice and Fire
''A Song of Ice and Fire'' is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, '' A Game of Thrones'', in 1991, and it was published in 1996. Martin, who in ...
'', fictional even in the fictional world
* A beetle-like creature from ''
Half-Life
Half-life (symbol ) is the time required for a quantity (of substance) to reduce to half of its initial value. The term is commonly used in nuclear physics to describe how quickly unstable atoms undergo radioactive decay or how long stable at ...
'' which doubles as a biological weapon.
Aircraft and missiles
*
SM-62 ''Snark'', an American intercontinental nuclear cruise missile
*
Sopwith Snark
The Sopwith Snark was a British prototype fighter aircraft designed and built towards the end of the First World War to replace the RAF's Sopwith Snipes. A single engined triplane, the Snark did not fly until after the end of the war, only thr ...
, a British experimental fighter plane
*
Barber Snark, a New Zealand kit-built tandem-seater light aircraft
Ships
* ''Snark'', an experimental rescue submersible in the film ''
Gray Lady Down'' (1978)
* ''The Snark'', a yacht described in Jack Londons book ''
The Cruise of the Snark
''The Cruise of the Snark'' (1911) is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the ''Snark''. Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian Lon ...
'' (1911)
*
Snark sailboat, a small, inexpensive, and lightweight sailboat
*
MV ''The Second Snark'', historically a shipyard tender, now in service as a cruise boat and ferry
* , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
Other
*
Snark (graph theory), a type of graph
*
SNARK (theorem prover) SNARK, (SRI's New Automated Reasoning Kit), is a theorem prover for multi-sorted first-order logic intended for applications in artificial intelligence and software engineering, developed at SRI International.
SNARK's principal inference mecha ...
, a computer program
*
zk-SNARK, ''zero-knowledge Succinct Non-interactive ARgument of Knowledge'', a cryptographic tool for producing short proofs of statements without revealing any additional information
*
Snark subreddits, where users "snark" on public figures
* Snark, an Open Source
BitTorrent client
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The BitTorrent protocol coordinates segmented file transfer among peers connected ...
* ''Snark'' (2009), a book by film critic
David Denby
David Denby (born 1943) is an American journalist. He served as film critic for ''The New Yorker'' until December 2014.
Early life and education
Denby grew up in New York City. He received a B. A. from Columbia University in 1965, and a master' ...
* Snark, a glider reflector in
Conway's Game of Life
The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no furt ...
* Snark, a late 70s moped produced by
F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi
* ''Snark'', ''snarky'', or ''snarkiness'', terms referring to
sarcastic remarks
See also
*
Snork (disambiguation) Snork may refer to:
*'' Snorks'', a comic book, and later a cartoon series that began in the mid 80's and ended by the late 80's.
*Snork Maiden
A large number of characters appear in the ''Moomin'' series by Tove Jansson. The original Swedish na ...
*
Snarf (disambiguation) Snarf, SNARF, or their variants may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
*''Snarf'', an underground comic published in the early 1970s by Denis Kitchen
* Snarf (''ThunderCats''), one of several characters on the television show ''ThunderCats''
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