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/ˈärgəs/,
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arguses, plural;
  1. A monster with a hundred eyes, used by Hera to watch over Io. He was killed by Hermes, and Hera then used his eyes to deck the peacock's tail

  2. An alert, watchful guardian

  3. A long-tailed pheasant with generally brown plumage, found in Southeast Asia and Indonesia

  4. A small brown or bluish Eurasian butterfly that typically has eyelike markings near the wing margins

  5. A silvery deep-bodied fish with round spots, widely distributed throughout the tropical Indo-Pacific region in both fresh and salt water

  1. (Greek mythology) a giant with 100 eyes; was guardian of the heifer Io and was slain by Hermes
  2. large brilliantly patterned East Indian pheasant
  3. "Argus" is the nineteenth episode of the fourth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 77th overall episode of the series. It was written by 30 Rock producers Dylan Morgan, Paula Pell, and Josh Siegal. ...
  4. Argus is the third album by the rock band Wishbone Ash. It is the most popular Wishbone Ash album and widely considered the greatest by fans and reviewers. It was named "Album of the Year" in the 1972 year-end issue of Sounds magazine. ...
  5. The Argus was a German automobile manufactured by Internationale Automobilzentrale KG Jeannin & Co from 1902 to 1904, then Argus Motoren-Gesellschaft Jeannin & Co from 1904 to 1906, and then Argus Motoren-Gesellschaft m.b.H. from November 1906 to 1945.
  6. The Argus is a type of bird in the family Phasianidae and is closely related to pheasants and peafowl. It has hundreds or thousands of tiny white spots on its plumage pattern, and thus its naming might have been in reference to the mythical hundred-eyed giant argus or Argus Panoptes.
  7. Argus is an American maker of cameras and photographic products, founded in 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Argus originated as a subsidiary of the International Radio Corporation (IRC), founded by Charles Verschoor. ...
  8. Argus is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics. He first appeared during the Bloodlines crossover event in Flash Annual v2, #6 (1993), and was created by Mark Waid and Phil Hester.
  9. Argus is a systems and network monitoring application. It is designed to monitor the status of network services, servers, and other network hardware. It will send alerts when it detects problems.
  10. Argus is a programming language created at MIT by Barbara Liskov between 1985 and 1988, in collaboration with Maurice Herlihy, Paul Johnson, Robert Scheifler, and William Weihl.Liskov, Barbara. DISTRIBUTED PROGRAMMING IN ARGUS. Communications of the ACM. Mar 1988, Vol. 31 Issue 3, p300-312. ...
  11. ARGUS Software, formerly Realm Business Solutions, is a company that produces financial software for the commercial real estate industry.
  12. Argus was a Norwegian debate show hosted by Mona Høiness, that aired on TV3.
  13. Argus is a vertically scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released by NMK in 1986, licensed to Jaleco. One controls a fighter jet and shoot enemies in the air and on the ground, collect power-ups, and defeat bosses to advance levels. ...
  14. ANG Newspapers (Alameda Newspaper Group), based in Oakland, California, is a subisidary of the Denver based MediaNews Group, a part of their Bay Area News Group-East Bay. ...
  15. The Argus was a morning daily newspaper in Melbourne established in 1846 and closed in 1957. Widely known as a conservative newspaper for most of its history, it adopted a left leaning approach from 1949. ...
  16. The Argus is a local newspaper based in Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, with editions serving the city of Brighton and Hove and the other parts of both East and West Sussex.
  17. The Argus (often referred to as The Dundalk Argus) is a regional newspaper serving Dundalk, Ireland. The paper is owned by Independent News and Media. Publication is weekly and the circulation as of 2008 is 11,507 . ...
  18. A fabulous being of antiquity, also called Argus Panoptes, said to have had a hundred eyes. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock’s tail. He was a servant of the greek goddess Hera
  19. Two software packages for Statistical Disclosure Control are called Argus. μ-Argus is a specialized software tool for the protection of microdata. The two main techniques used for this are global recoding and local suppression. ...
  20. eponym: a watchful guardian (Argus-eyed = vigilantly observant)
  21. Russian-designed and -built 600 m depth capable manned submersible which operates primarily in the Black Sea
  22. SENTRY or security guard; derived from mythic Greek giant with a hundred eyes. See ROADRUNNER, EARTH ANGEL, TRAIL WATCHER, SPOTTER, WATCHER, GROUND OBSERVER CORPS, WEFT, COIGN OF VANTAGE, WATCH. [v: "watch and ward"]
  23. A hundred-eyed giant in Greek mythology (Knight 1390; Wife 358; Merchant 2111).
  24. Any observant person or vigilant guardian, such as a meticulous editor. In both senses of the word (ie: a giant with a thousand eyes, a brilliantly marked peacock), an editor is either a writer's best asset, or merely another obstructive pettifogger. ...
  25. In Greek mythology the Argus was a beast with a hundred eyes placed by Juno to guard Io.