Castor

Castor or CASTOR may refer to:

In science and technology

• Castor (star), α Geminorum
• Castor (software), a data binding framework for Java
• CASTOR, CAsk for Storage and Transport Of Radioactive material, containers used to transport highly radioactive nuclear waste
• CASTOR at CERN, CERN Advanced STORage manager, used at CERN, the European Laboratory for Research in Particle Physics
• CASTOR, "Centauro And Strange Object Research", a measurement tool in the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN

In biology

• Castor oil plant, the plant from which the poisonous castor bean grows
  • Castor oil, the oil of the castor bean
  • Castor wax, a type of wax produced from castor oil
• Castor (genus), the genus name of the beaver

In transportation

• Caster, a type of wheel (spelling variant)
  • Castor angle, alignment in the vertical longitudinal plane of a motor vehicle's wheels (a misspelling of caster)
• Four ships of Britain's Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Castor:
  • HMS Castor (1781), a 36-gun fifth-rate captured from the Dutch in 1781 by the HMS Flora
  • HMS Castor (1785), a 32-gun fifth-rate launched in 1785
  • HMS Castor (1832), a 26-gun fifth-rate launched in 1832
  • HMS Castor (1915), a C-class light cruiser launched in 1915
• Castor (rocket stage), built by Thiokol
• A steam locomotive of the South Devon Railway Eagle class

People

• Julius Caesar Drusus, son of the Emperor Tiberius, nicknamed "Castor"
• Saint Castor, name of several Christian saints
  • Castor of Apt, bishop of Apt, Vaucluse
• Castor of Rhodes, a Greek grammarian and rhetorician
• Stacey Castor, murderer from Liverpool, New York State

Fictional people

• Castor (mythology), one of the Gemini twins of Greek mythology
• Castor Oyl, a fictional character in the Popeye cartoons
• The villain in the movie Face/Off, Castor Troy, portrayed by Nicolas Cage and John Travolta
• A character in the video game Spartan: Total Warrior

Places

• Castor, Alberta, Canada
• Castor, Cambridgeshire, England
• Castor, Louisiana, United States
• Castor (mountain), in the Pennine Alps
• Castor Bay in North Shore City, Auckland, New Zealand
• Castor Creek in Louisiana, United States
• Castor River (Missouri)
• Castor River (Ontario)
• An old name for Caistor St. Edmund, in Norfolk, England

Other uses

• Castor (band), an independent rock band from Champaign, Illinois
• Castor Cracking Group, a music group from Sweden