Ox (disambiguation)

An ox is a bovine, usually a steer (castrated adult male) used as a draft animal, such as pulling carts or plows.

Ox or OX may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Ox (band), a Canadian alternative country band
• Ox (musician), a Finnish musician
• Ox (album), by American hardcore band Coalesce
• "The Ox" (instrumental), a 1965 rock instrumental by The Who

Other media

• The Ox (film), a 1991 Swedish film
• Doctor Ox, a fictional doctor and scientist created by Jules Verne in 1872
• Ox (comics), a villain in the Marvel Comics universe
• 0Ⅹ, a creature from the eponymous book in the Of Man and Manta trilogy by Piers Anthony

Computing

• Ox programming language
• Open-Xchange, a "collaboration software" suite and the company that sponsors it
• the oX framework for OBIX
• OpenPGP for XMPP Instant Messaging, XEP-0374

People

• Ox (nickname), a list of people nicknamed "Ox" or "the Ox"
• The Ox or Ox Baker (1934-2014), ring names of American professional wrestler and actor Douglas Baker

Places

• Ox Mountains, County Sligo, Ireland
• OX postcode area, covering Oxford, UK
• The Oxford Bar, a pub on Edinburgh's Young Street which features in Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels

Transport

• OX, a version of the Bedford OY British Army lorry, the latter introduced in 1939
• OX, a prototype vehicle developed by Global Vehicle Trust
• Orient Thai Airlines (IATA code OX)

Other uses

• Ox (zodiac), one of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac
• Ox (Chinese constellation), one of the 28 mansions of the Chinese constellations
• Oxalate, in chemistry sometimes abbreviated as ox when it forms coordination compounds