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Nexus may also refer to:

In computers and internet

• nexus, a secure software module that is one of the components of Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base
• Nexus, the web browser formerly known as WorldWideWeb (the first web browser)
• Nexus Project, a collaborating group of individuals in diverse locations
• Nexus, an alternate name for Nexopia
• Nexus file, a file format in bioinformatics
• Dragonlance Nexus, a popular Dragonlance fansite

The Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB), formerly known as Palladium, is a software architecture designed by Microsoft which is expected to implement parts of the controversial Trusted Computing concept on future versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. ... WorldWideWeb was the worlds first web browser and WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) HTML editor. ... Nexus Projects are a group of highly connected individuals in diverse locations collaborating together towards a common set of goals. ... Nexopia is a social networking website and is designed as a general interactive site for people aged 14 and up (accounts with users that are proven to be under 14 are deleted). ... This bioinformatics-related article is a stub. ... The Dragonlance Nexus is a popular Dragonlance fansite. ...

In games

• Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds, a MMORPG by Kru Interactive
• Nexus: The Jupiter Incident, a strategy game by Mithis Entertainment
• Armored Core: Nexus, the eighth title in the Armored Core series
• Nexus (Mortal Kombat), a central hub between the realms of existence in Mortal Kombat
• The Nexus Age, a hub world in Uru: Ages Beyond Myst
• The Nexus, the central world in Primal
• Nexus, the shadow organisation in Warzone 2100
• The Nexus, the Protoss central building in Starcraft
• The "Overwatch Nexus" in Half-Life 2
• The Strogg Nexus in Quake 4
• Nexus Crystal, an item in World of Warcraft

Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds, which is also known as Nexus TK and simply Nexus, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game which takes place in a medieval-type fantasy environment. ... Nexus: The Jupiter incident is a science fiction themed computer game developed by the Hungarian based Mithis Entertainment. ... The Nexus level cleared for Kombat The Nexus is a fictional plane of existence in the Mortal Kombat video game series that exists as a central hub between the various realms of existence. ... Myst franchise Games Myst Riven Myst III: Exile Myst IV: Revelation Myst V: End of Ages Uru: Ages Beyond Myst Ages of: Myst Riven Myst III: Exile Myst IV: Revelation Uru Novels Myst: The Book of Atrus   Tiana   Dni Comic Books #0   #1 Miscellaneous Dni Ages   The... Primal is an action Video game developed by ESCEE Cambridge. ... Warzone 2100 is a real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game, developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. ... StarCraft is a real-time strategy computer game by Blizzard Entertainment. ... Half-Life 2 (HL2) is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game that is the sequel to Half-Life. ... Quake 4 is the fourth title in the series of Quake FPS computer games. ... World of Warcraft (commonly abbreviated as WoW) is a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the fourth game in the Warcraft series, excluding expansion packs and the cancelled Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. ...

In grammar

• Nexus Grammar System, a system of analysing text

Background This system of Anaylsing text was first used in Denmark. ...

In law

• Nexus, a provision of the Constitution of Australia
• "Nexus", in sales and use tax, a minimum level of presence, either direct or representational, within a state or taxing jurisdiction for a business entity to be required to collect, pay and remit certain state and local taxes.

Judicial High Court Lower Courts Constitution State and territory governments Executive Governors and Administrators Premiers and Chief Ministers Legislative Parliaments and Assemblies State electoral systems ACT - NSW - NT - Qld. ... Sales and use tax is refers to both: Sales Tax and Use Tax Category: ...

In publishing

• Nexus Books, a pornography publishing company
• Nexus Editrice, an Italian company publishing games, books and magazines
• The Nexus (journal), a journal edited by Kerry Bolton
• Nexus magazine, an international bi-monthly alternative news magazine
• Nexus, the University of California, Santa Barbara student newspaper
• Nexus News, an Institute of Physics publication for physics students
• Nexus, the University of Waikato student magazine

Scarlet Vice, a book published by Nexus Books Nexus Books is a British imprint of Virgin Books, publishing sado-masochistic pornography written mostly for male straight readers. ... Founded on 1993, Nexus Editrice is one of the leading game publishers in Italy. ... The Nexus was a journal edited by Kerry Bolton in Paraparaumu Beach, New Zealand. ... Nexus magazine is a magazine containing many alternative and conspiracy theorist articles. ... The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, California, USA. It is one out of 11 campuses of the University of California. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ... It has been suggested that DAG Technology be merged into this article or section. ...

In music

• Nexus, a 1974 album by Argent (band)
• "Nexus", a song by Bethlehem (German band)
• Nexus (percussion ensemble)
• Nexus (Estonian band)
• Nexus (Australian band)
• Nexus (Argentine band)
• Nexus (Another Level album)
• "Nexus Icon", a song by The Wildhearts
• "Nexus", a song by Dan Fogelberg

Argent was the name of a rock band founded in 1969 by Rod Argent after his previous band, The Zombies, broke up. ... Bethlehem is a German dark metal band from Grevenbroich. ... Nexus is a Toronto-based percussion ensemble made up of percussionists Bob Becker, Bill Cahn, Robin Engleman, Russell Hartenberger, and Garry Kvistad. ... Nexus is an Estonian pop band formed in 2003. ... Nexus was an acid jazz and funk band based in Sydney, NSW, Australia. ... Nexus is an excellent progressive rock band from Argentina. ... Nexus is the second studio album by Another Level. ... The Wildhearts are a rock group from Newcastle upon Tyne, England. ... The cover of the album The Essential Dan Fogelberg Daniel Grayling Fogelberg (b. ...

In organizations

• NEXUS International Broadcasting Association, a non-profit association of broadcasters and producers
• Nexus, the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive's trading name

This article belongs in one or more categories. ... The Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive (TWPTE), trading as Nexus, is the organisation responsible for the Tyne and Wear County public transport system. ...

In psychiatry and psychology

• Family nexus, a common viewpoint of family members

The term family nexus was used by the psychiatrist R D Laing to describe a common viewpoint held and reinforced by the majority of family members regarding events in the family and relationships with the world. ...

In fiction

• Nexus (The Rosy Crucifixion), the final installment in the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy by Henry Miller
• Nexus (comics), a comic book by Mike Baron and Steve Rude
• The Nexus (Charmed), a location in Charmed
• Ultraman Nexus
• The Nexus (Star Trek), a spatial anomaly in Star Trek: Generations
• "The Nexus", the group of planets in the Vorkosigan Saga
• Nexus, a replicant model in Blade Runner

Nexus is the third and final book in the trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion. ... October 1997 issue of Nexus Nightmare in Blue - Issue #4 Nexus was a comic book series created by writer Mike Baron and penciler Steve Rude in 1981. ... Description The Nexus is a place equally distant from the five elements in the tv series Charmed. ... Ultraman Nexus (ウルトラマンネクサス, Urutoraman Nekusasu) was produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting. ... The Nexus is a spatial anomaly that exists in the fictional universe of Star Trek and was key to the plot of the film Star Trek: Generations. ... The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories by Lois McMaster Bujold, most of which concern Miles Vorkosigan, a disabled aristocrat from the planet Barrayar who creates his own private army at the age of just seventeen. ... Blade Runner is an influential 1982 cyberpunk film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, adapted from the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. ...

Other uses

• 2C-B or Nexus, a psychedelic entheogen drug
• NEXUS (rocket), a heavy-lift booster concept designed by General Dymanics
• NEXUS (frequent traveller program)
• "Nexus", a Shimano bicycle line
• Nexus Trafikk, a Norwegian bus company

2C-B, or 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, is a lesser known psychedelic drug that was first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin in 1974. ... NEXUS heavy-lift booster concept. ... NEXUS is a program introduced to allow frequent travellers who are not a security risk to either Canada or the United States to cross the border with minimal formality. ... Shimano, Inc. ... Nexus Trafikk is a Norwegian bus company that operates in Oslo, Norway. ...

See also

• Nexis

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