Gossamer
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Gossamer commonly refers to:
- Gossamer (spider silk), very fine spider silk used for ballooning or kiting by various species of spiders
- Gossamer (fabric), very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric
Gossamer may also refer to:
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[edit] Technology
- Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight
- Gossamer Albatross, a human-powered aircraft built by American aeronautical engineer Dr. Paul B. MacCready's AeroVironment
- The code name of the motherboard used in first-generation Apple G3 Macs
[edit] Music, literature and television
- The Gossamer Years, an English title for the Japanese classical work of literature Kagerō Nikki
- Gossamer (novel), a 2006 novel by Lois Lowry
- Gossamer, a 1995 short story by Stephen Baxter in his collection Vacuum Diagrams and The Hard SF Renaissance anthology
- Gossamer (Looney Tunes), a character in the Looney Tunes cartoons
- The Gossamer Project or Gossamer Archive, a large X-Files fan fiction archive
- "Gossamer", a song by The Smashing Pumpkins from the tour for Zeitgeist but not released on the album
- "The Gossamer Strand", an instrumental song by Deadsoul Tribe from the album A Lullaby for the Devil
- "Gossamer Thread", a song by David Gray from the album Foundling
[edit] Other uses
- Lycaenidae, a family of butterflies with gossamer wings, also called gossamer-winged butterflies
- Gossamer, a golden ale produced by the Half Acre Beer Company in Chicago
- The gossamer rings of Jupiter
[edit] See also
| Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Gossamer. |
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