Scavenger (disambiguation)

Scavenger is an organism that seeks and feeds on discarded or abandoned material such as carrion or detritus.

Scavenger or Scavenging may also refer to:

Science and technology

• Energy scavenging or energy harvesting, the capturing energy for autonomous devices
• Scavenger (chemistry), a method of removing impurities or other undesired chemicals from a mixture
• Scavenger receptors, a group of pattern recognition receptors of the innate immune system
• Scavenging (automotive), automotive process of pushing exhausted gas-charge out of the cylinder and drawing in fresh air
• CPU scavenging, salvaging of machine time
• SCVNGR, a social location-based gaming platform for mobile phones

Film, television, and games

• Scavenger (Transformers), characters in the Transformers series
• Scavengers (game show), a British game show
• Scavenger hunt, a game
• Scavenger, Inc., a video game publisher
• Scavenger (audio drama), a 2014 audio drama based on the television series Doctor Who
• The Scavengers (1959 film)
• The Scavengers (1969 film)
• Scavengers (2013 film)

Music

• The Scavengers, a New Zealand punk rock band from the 1970s
• Scavenger (album), a 1991 album by The Walkabouts
• Scavengers (album), a 2001 album by Calla
• The Scavenger, a 1966 album by Nat Adderley

Other

• Operation Scavenger, a World War II operation in the Pacific theater
• Waste picker, a person who picks recyclable elements from waste
• Mule scavenger, an old profession whereby a person retrieves cotton from underneath a spinning machine
• Scavenger’s daughter, a rack-like torture instrument
• Scavenger (Peter Mortimer), an armored enemy of Aquaman