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In science:

• Bird of prey, also known as a raptor, a type of bird often characterized by a hooked beak, sharp talons, and keen eyesight.
• An informal term to refer to certain dinosaurs, most notably the Dromaeosauridae, including the Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor and some other theropods such as the Oviraptor and the Gigantoraptor
• some primitive birds, such as the Shenzhouraptor

In the South African military: Orders Accipitriformes     Cathartidae     Pandionidae     Accipitridae     Sagittariidae Falconiformes     Falconidae A bird of prey or raptor is a bird that hunts its food, especially one that preys on mammals or other birds. ... Genera See text. ... Species V. mongoliensis Osborn, 1924 (type) Velociraptor (IPA: ; meaning swift thief) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 83 to 70 Ma (million years ago) during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. ... Binomial name Deinonychus antirrhopus Ostrom, 1969 Deinonychus (IPA ) meaning terrible claw (Greek δεινος meaning terrible and ονυξ/ονυχος meaning claw) was a jaguar-sized, carnivorous dromaeosaurid dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous Period. ... Species U. ostrommaysorum (Kirkland, Gaston & Burge, 1993) (type) Utahraptor (meaning Utah thief) is the largest known member of the theropod dinosaur family Dromaeosauridae, and dates from the upper Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous period (132-119 million years ago). ... Species O. philoceratops Osborn, 1924 (type) Oviraptor is a genus of small Mongolian theropod dinosaur, first discovered by legendary paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, and first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn, in 1924. ... Species G. erlianensis Xu , 2007 (type) Gigantoraptor is a genus of giant oviraptorosaurian dinosaur that lived 85 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period. ... Binomial name Shenzhouraptor sinensis Ji, Ji, You, J. Zhang, Yuan, X. Ji, J. Li & Y. Li, 2002 Synonyms see text Shenzhouraptor (or Jeholornis Zhou & F. C. Zhang, 2002) is the name given to a genus of primitive bird found in the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Hebei, China. ...

• Raptor weapon, a series of South African Air Force precision guided glide weapons.

In the US military:

• VMMT-204, the MV-22 Osprey training squadron of the United States Marine Corps known by the nickname "The Raptors"
• F-22 Raptor, a United States Air Force stealth fighter airplane

In technology: Marine Medium Tiltrotor Training Squadron 204 (VMMT-204) is the MV-22 Osprey training squadron of the United States Marine Corps. ... F-22 redirects here. ...

• Cagiva Raptor, a motorbike
• Raptor FEC Technology
• Roboraptor, a robotic dinosaur
• RAPTOR reconnaissance pod carried by RAF Tornados
• WD Raptor, a high-performance hard disk drive from Western Digital
• Raptor, an ATV 4-wheel motorcycle produced by Yamaha
• Raptor, an R/C Helicopter manufactured by Thunder Tiger
• Raptor, the name of early versions of the Gecko Layout Engine
• Raptor, an RDF parser and serializer from the Redland RDF Application Framework

In sports and entertainment: Cagiva is an Italian motorcycle manufacturer. ... Raptor FEC technology is an intelligence property of Digital Fountain and adopted by several industry standards such as 3GPP, 3GPP2, DVB-H and Reliable Multicast Transport (RMT) working group within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). ... Roboraptor Roboraptor is a robotic toy invented by Mark Tilden and distributed by Wow Wee Toys International. ... Look up raptor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The WD740GD The Raptor is a high-end hard disk drive series produced by Western Digital, that managed virtually single-handedly to create its own niche: The enthusiast and smaller server market. ... Thunder Tiger is a Taiwanese manufacturer of radio controlled model airplanes, helicopters, cars, boats and model engines including jet turbines. ... Epiphany using Gecko to render the Wikipedia main page Gecko is the open source, free software web browser layout engine used in all Mozilla-branded software and its derivatives, including later Netscape releases. ... Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a family of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications originally designed as a metadata model but which has come to be used as a general method of modeling information, through a variety of syntax formats. ... Redland is a set of free software libraries written in C that provide support for the Resource Description Framework (RDF), created by Dave Beckett (a former resident of Redland, Bristol). ...

• Toronto Raptors, the Canadian NBA basketball team
• Ogden Raptors, an American professional baseball team playing in the Pioneer League
• Randers Raptors, a Danish floorball team
• Raptor (roller coaster), a roller coaster at the Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio
• Raptor convention, a contract bridge convention
• Raptor, an electric guitar produced by Peavey Guitars

In fiction: The Toronto Raptors are a professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario. ... The Ogden Raptors are a minor league baseball team in the Pioneer League. ... A floorball match between Sweden (yellow) and Finland (white) Floorball is a gay indoor team sport played using composite or carbon sticks with a plastic vented blade where the aim is to put a light plastic ball into the opponents goal. ... Raptor is a steel inverted roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. ... Raptor 1NT overcall is a contract bridge, convention that indicates a two-suited hand with exactly four cards in an unbid major and a longer suit in an unbid minor. ... Peavey Guitars are musical instruments manufactured by Peavey Electronics. ...

• Raptor heavy fighter, a starfighter in the Wing Commander universe
• Raptor: Call of the Shadows, a computer game
• Raptor, a fictional character from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
• Raptor (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero from the MC2 universe
• Raptor (Marvel Comics)
• Raptor (Battlestar Galactica), a military spacecraft in the Battlestar Galactica universe
• Raptor, one of the Unreal Tournament 2004 Vehicles (and 2007) as well as a vehicle in Unreal II eXpanded MultiPlayer
• Raptor, a novel written by Gary Jennings
• Lord Raptor, a character from the Darkstalkers series of fighting games
• Raptor, the most common type of enemy Orbital Frame in the Zone of the Enders video game series
• Raptor, a member of a group of genetically engineered commandos from Earth's future in the comic book story XTNCT

The (fictional) A-14D Raptor is a heavy attack starfighter in the Wing Commander universe. ... The Raptor is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics series Spider-Girl. ... Raptor (Gary Wilton Jr. ... Side view Raptor taking off Cockpit view with pilot and ECO The Raptor is a multipurpose military spacecraft of the new Battlestar Galactica. ... There are many vehicles available for use in the first-person shooter game Unreal Tournament 2004. ... eXpanded MultiPlayer (XMP) is a multiplayer expansion to Unreal 2 developed by Legend Entertainment and made available for download on December 9, 2003. ... Gary Jennings (September 20, 1928 – February 13, 1999) was a U.S. author who wrote children and adult novels. ... Lord Raptor Lord Raptor (Zabel Zarock in Japan) is a video game character in the Darkstalkers series. ... // An Orbital Frame is an advanced giant mecha in the fictional universe of Zone of the Enders. ... XTNCT is a comic strip set in the Far Future which involved genetically modified dinosaurs. ...

See also

• Raptus

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