Velox

Velox, is a Latin word meaning "swift" or "rapid". Velox may also refer to:

Vehicles

• Heine-Velox, a luxury car made by Gustav Heine.
• HMS Velox (D34), a British 'V' class destroyer built in 1918.
• ST Velox, a tugboat in service with D Tripcovich & Co, Italy from 1956-76.
• Vauxhall 30-98 Velox, a British sports and racing car made between 1913 and 1927.
• Vauxhall Velox (L-Type), a British medium-sized saloon car between 1948 and 1965.
• Vickers Velox, a variant of the Vickers Vellore aircraft, also written as Vellox.

Sport

• Kendall Velox (born 1971), a Vincentian football (soccer) striker
• Velox (football club), one of the predecessors of the Dutch football club FC Utrecht
• Velox Valhallians, a rugby club located in Victoria, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island

Animals

• Acinonyx jubatus velox, a proposed (now recognised as invalid) subspecies of cheetah found near the Loita Plains of Kenya
• Azteca velox, a South American species of ant
• Batrachedra velox, a species of moth of the family Batrachedridae
• Depressaria velox, a moth of the family Oecophoridae
• Dythemis velox, a species of libellulid dragonfly
• Elachista velox, a moth of the family Elachistidae
• Eremias velox, the rapid fringe-toed lizard of Central Asia
• Geococcyx velox, the lesser roadrunner
• Gibberula velox, a species of very small sea snail in the family Cystiscidae
• Hibana velox, a common spider of North America, for example Texas and Alabama
• Hippotion velox, a species of sphingid moth
• Lepisiota frauenfeldi velox, a subspecies of the ant species Lepisiota frauenfeldi from Tunisia
• Ornithomimus velox, a species of ornithomimosaurid dinosaur
• Nyctitherium velox, an extinct species of soricomorph (shrew-like) mammal
• Potamogale velox, the giant otter shrew of central Africa
• Turnix velox, an Australian bird commonly known as the little buttonquail
• Vulpes velox, a small North American fox commonly known as the swift fox.
• Velox wielandi, a small bark dwelling praying mantis from Brazil

Other

• Oi Velox, the brand name for Oi's ADSL service
• Velox: Critical Approaches to Contemporary Film, an online academic journal about film
• Velox-Project.Eu, an Integrated Approach to Transactional Memory on Multi- and Many-core Computers
• Velox, a photographic paper invented by Leo Baekeland and sold to Eastman Kodak
• Velox (fireboat), see Fireboats of New York City
• VELOX, a digital marketing agency founded by Joe Rowett
• Velox, a brand of letterboxes made by Velox Products Pty Ltd