Paragon
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A paragon is a large, flawless diamond. The title is now used figuratively to denote a model of excellence or perfection of any kind; one having no equal; a perfect embodiment of a concept.
Paragon may also refer to:
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Places [edit]
- Paragon, Indiana, a town in the United States
- The Paragon, Singapore, a shopping mall
- Siam Paragon, a shopping complex in Bangkok, Thailand
- McLaren Technology Centre, formerly called the Paragon Technology Centre
- A housing site at Thames Valley University
- Hull Paragon Interchange, a railway station and transportation complex in Kingston upon Hull, England.
- The Paragon, Bath, a Georgian street in the Walcot area of Bath
Companies [edit]
- Paragon Application Systems, a software company in the EFT industry, founded in 1994
- Paragon China, a British manufacturer of bone china
- Paragon Footwear, India's largest footwear company
- Paragon Group of Companies, a British mortgage lender
- Paragon Software, a video game company founded in 1987
- Paragon Software Group, a software company founded in 1994
- Paragon Space Development Corporation, a space hardware company
- Paragon Studios, a video game company founded in 2007
- Paragon Vision Sciences, a contact lens manufacturer
Media and entertainment [edit]
- John Paragon, actor, writer, and director
- Paragon (band), a heavy metal band from Germany
- Paragon cymbals, a line of cymbals made by Sabian, designed specifically for drummer Neil Peart
- Paragon, one of the professions available in the PC game Guild Wars Nightfall
- Paragon (Cooper Roth), Marvel Comics superhero
- Paragon (Maya), a fictional character in the video game Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
- Paragon City, a fictional city in the computer game City of Heroes
- Paragon points, a type of scoring/level system in the game series Mass Effect
- Paragon Levels, a levelling system in the computer game Diablo 3
Computing [edit]
- Paragon SWP, a computer gaming terminal
- Intel Paragon, a series of massively parallel supercomputers
Other [edit]
- Paragon CRT, a method of corneal refraction developed by Paragon Vision Sciences
- HMS Paragon, the name of two ships of the Royal Navy
- Paragon, a mountain bike in the Gary Fisher Collection
- Paragon, traditional point-size name for a 20-pt font size
See also [edit]
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