Sentinel

Sentinel may refer to:

Guards

• Border guard, a state agent who controls the security at borders
• Honor guard, a ceremonial escort

Places

• Sentinel, California
• Sentinel, Oklahoma
• Sentinel Island (disambiguation)
• Sentinel Islands, a pair of islands in the Andaman Islands
• Sentinel Range, a mountain range in Antarctica
• Sentinel Peak (Alberta)
• Sentinel Peak (Antarctica)
• Sentinel Peak (Arizona)
• Sentinel Peak (British Columbia)
• The Sentinel (Montana), a mountain peak in Glacier National Park

Buildings

• Sentinel Building (disambiguation), multiple
• Sentinel (building), an apartment tower in North Shore City, New Zealand
• The Sentinels, two residential block towers in Birmingham, UK
• Sentinel Secondary School, a school in West Vancouver, British Columbia

Transportation

• Sentinel (steamboat), a small wooden steamboat associated with the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet

Publications

• Christian Science Sentinel

Local newspapers

• The Sentinel (Gauhati), published in Gauhati, Assam, India
• The Sentinel (Lewistown), published in Lewistown, Pennsylvania
• The Sentinel (Pennsylvania), published in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
• The Sentinel (Staffordshire), published in Stoke-on-Trent, England
• The Daily Sentinel (Colorado), based in Grand Junction, Colorado
• The Daily Sentinel (Texas), based in Nacogdoches, Texas
• The Daily Sentinel (Ohio), based in Pomeroy, Ohio
• Los Angeles Sentinel, published in Los Angeles, California
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, published in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• The News-Sentinel, published in Fort Wayne, Indiana
• Orlando Sentinel, published in Orlando, Florida
• St. Louis Sentinel, published in St. Louis, Missouri
• Santa Cruz Sentinel, published in Santa Cruz, California
• San Francisco Sentinel, published in San Francisco, California
• Sun-Sentinel, published in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Broward County
• Holland Sentinel, published in Holland, Michigan
• Twin City Sentinel, published in Winston Salem, North Carolina
• The Valley Sentinel, published in Valemount, British Columbia, Canada

Student publications

• The Sentinel (KSU), published by Kennesaw State University
• The Sentinel, published by Melbourne High School

Lorries and locomotives

• Sentinel Waggon Works, a British engineering firm that produced lorries and locomotives:
  • LMS Sentinels 7160-3
  • LMS Sentinel 7164
  • LMS Sentinel 7192
  • S&DJR Sentinels

Military

• Sentinel tank, an Australian-built World War II Cruiser Tank
• MPQ-64 Sentinel, a radar used by the United States military
• Raytheon Sentinel, an aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and British Army
• RQ-170 Sentinel, USAF stealth drone officially acknowledged in early December 2009
• Sentinel class cutter, a Fast Response Cutter with the United States Coast Guard

Media and entertainment

Film and television

• The Sentinel (1977 film), a 1977 film based on the Jeffrey Konvitz novel
• La Sentinelle (film), a 1992 film by the French director Arnaud Desplechin
• The Sentinel (2006 film), a thriller directed by Clark Johnson starring Michael Douglas
• The Sentinel (TV series), a US television series that ran from 1996 to 1999
• "The Sentinel" (Stargate SG-1), a TV episode
• Sentinel (Beast Wars), a computer in the TV show Beast Wars
• A type of robot in the Matrix film series

Music

• Sentinel (band)
• The Sentinel (album),an album by Pallas
• Sentinel (album), an album by Nigel Mazlyn Jones
• "Sentinel" (instrumental), by Mike Oldfield
• A song by VNV Nation on their album Of Faith, Power and Glory
• A song by Judas Priest on their album Defenders of the Faith
• A song by Alice Cooper on his album Dragontown
• A song by Hilltop Hoods on their album The Calling
• A song by At The Throne of Judgment on their album The Arcanum Order
• Sentinel Sound, a reggae and dancehall sound system from Stuttgart, Germany

Literature

• The Sentinel (anthology), a collection of short stories by Arthur C. Clarke
• "The Sentinel" (short story), a 1951 short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• The Sentinel (novel), a 1974 novel by Jeffrey Konvitz
• Sentinels novels, a series of novels by Van Allen Plexico
• Gundam Sentinel, a 1987 serial "photo-novel"

Comics

• Sentinel (comics), a group of mutant-hunting robots in the Marvel universe
• Sentinel (comic book), a comic book series
• Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, who used the alias "Sentinel" at one point
• Sentinel Prime, a fictional character in the Transformers universe, the original autobot leader before Optimus Prime

Gaming

• The Sentinel (video game), a 1986 game created by Geoff Crammond
• The Sentinel (module), an adventure module for Dungeons & Dragons
• A 1984 computer game created by Bryan Brandenburg
• A 2004 computer game published by Detalion
• A vehicle in the Warhammer 40,000 universe
• A Forerunner Guard robot in the "Halo" Trilogy
• One of the two teams in Defense of the Ancients
• Moonlight Sentinel and Ghost Sentinel, two occupations available in the popular MMORPG Lineage 2
• A Paradigm role in Final Fantasy XIII
• A highly promoted character class in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
• A police-based gang led by Axl in RoadKill

Computing

• Sentinel node, an object to represent the end of a data structure
• Sentinel value, a value used to terminate a loop
• The name of the nil that terminates a variable length list of parameters in Objective-C
• In network protocols such as Bisync, sentinel values indicate where frames start and end

Other meanings

• Animal sentinels, which give early indications to environmental hazards
• Sentinel (satellite), GMES Sentinel satellites, Series of ESA funded Earth Observation satellites
• Sentinel (sculpture), a sculpture by Tim Tolkien
• Sentinels (Hudson), a public artwork by American artist Jon Barlow Hudson
• Sentinel (publisher), a book publisher
• Sentinel lymph node, the first lymph node affected by a metastasising cancer
• Sentinel (FBI), an FBI software project replacing the failed Virtual Case File
• Sentry (disambiguation)