Ceres (disambiguation)
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Ceres commonly refers to:
Ceres may refer to:
- Ceres (dwarf planet), smallest of the five identified dwarf planets, originally classified as a planet, and later as the largest asteroid
- Ceres (Roman mythology), the Roman goddess of agriculture
Ceres may refer to:
United States
- Ceres, CaliforniaCeres, CaliforniaCeres is a city in Stanislaus County, California, United States. The population was 45,417 at the 2010 census, up from 34,609 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Modesto Metropolitan Statistical Area.-General:...
- Ceres Flat, CaliforniaCeres Flat, CaliforniaCeres Flat is a former settlement in Placer County, California. Ceres Flat is located between Auburn and Ophir.-References:...
- Ceres, GeorgiaCeres, GeorgiaCeres is an unincorporated community in Crawford County, Georgia, United States. It lies at an elevation of ....
- Ceres, Iowa
- Ceres, New York
- Ceres, Oklahoma
- Ceres, VirginiaCeres, VirginiaCeres is an unincorporated community in Bland County, Virginia, United States. Ceres is located on Virginia State Route 42 west-southwest of Bland. Ceres has a post office with ZIP code 24318....
- Ceres, Washington
- Ceres, West VirginiaCeres, West VirginiaCeres is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. Ceres is located on West Virginia Route 123 south-southwest of Princeton....
- Ceres Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania
Other countries
- Ceres, Santa FeCeres, Santa FeCeres is a municipality San Cristóbal Department, in Santa Fe Province, Argentina. The town of Ceres is northwest of the provincial capital Santa Fe and has a population of 16,054...
, Argentina - Ceres, VictoriaCeres, VictoriaCeres is a locality of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. As one of the highest points in Geelong, Ceres has a lookout which overlooks the city.-External links:** images on Flickr...
, Australia - Ceres, GoiásCeres, GoiásCeres is a small city and municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. It was the first agricultural colony built in the state of Goiás.-Geography:...
, Brazil - Ceres, Piedmont, Italy
- Ceres, FifeCeres, FifeCeres is a village in Fife, Scotland, located in a small glen approximately 2 miles over the Ceres Moor from Cupar and 7 miles from St Andrews. The former parish of that name included the settlements of Baldinnie, Chance Inn, Craigrothie, Pitscottie and Tarvit Mill.-The village:It is one of the...
, Scotland - Ceres, Western CapeCeres, Western CapeCeres is a town with 46,251 inhabitants in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It is the administrative centre and largest town of the Witzenberg Local Municipality. Ceres serves as a regional centre for the surrounding towns of Wolseley, Tulbagh, Op-die-Berg and Prince Alfred Hamlet...
, South Africa - Ceres NunataksCeres NunataksThe Ceres Nunataks are a group of three nunataks located immediately east of the base of Shostakovich Peninsula in southern Alexander Island. They were mapped by the Directorate of Overseas Surveys from satellite imagery supplied by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration in...
, Antarctica - Ceres MicroregionCeres MicroregionThe Ceres Microregion is located in north-central Goiás state, Brazil. It includes 22 cities with a total population of 215,820 inhabitants . The total area is 13,224.40 km² and the population density is 16.32 inhab/km². The most important cities are Ceres and Goianésia.The most populous...
, in north-central Goiás state, Brazil
Businesses
- Ceres BreweryCeres BreweryCeres Brewery is a brewery located in Aarhus, Denmark. Today, it is part of Royal Unibrew.-History:Ceres Brewery was founded by a grocer named Malthe Conrad Lottrup, with help from the chemists A. S. Aagard and Knud Redelien, as the city's seventh brewery...
, a brewery in Aarhus, Denmark - Ceres Hellenic Shipping EnterprisesCeres Hellenic Shipping EnterprisesCeres Hellenic Enterprises is a large traditional Greek ship management company based in Piraeus. It was founded by George Livanos in 1949, but family shipping interests in fact date back to 1824....
, a Greek shipping company - Ceres (organization)Ceres (organization)Ceres is a non-profit, American network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges, such as global climate change....
, a coalition of investors and environmentalists (formerly the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies) - Centre for Research on Energy SecurityCentre for Research on Energy SecurityThe Centre for Research on Energy Security is an Indian research center focusing on Indian relations to energy and consequences on itself and the world, diplomatically, economically, etc. The center was created the 31 May 2005....
(CeRES), an American research center on geopolitic and energy - Ceres Fruit JuicesCeres Fruit JuicesCeres Fruit Juices is a company based in South Africa, with Pieter Hanekom as CEO. It produces fruit juice, and various other products based on fruit. It advertises that their products are made from 100% fruit juice, and are sold without preservatives, but rather aseptic processing...
, the South African juice company - Ceres LinerCeres LinerCeres Liner is a bus line under Vallacar Transit Inc., the largest public land transportation company in the island of Negros, Philippines. It operates bus transport service to the whole island of Negros from Bacolod City to Panay, Cebu and Samar-Leyte islands...
, a bus company in the Philippines - Ceres PowerCeres PowerCeres Power is a UK-based company that is developing a fuel-cell boiler for the UK domestic CHP market.The boiler produces both heat and electricity. The design is small enough to be wall-mounted and is therefore compatible with the layout of most central heating systems in the UK.At the heart of...
, a UK company developing small-scale fuel cell CHP systems
In fiction
- Ceres, Celestial LegendCeres, Celestial Legendis a fantasy shōjo manga series written by Yuu Watase. It was originally serialized in Shōjo Comic from May 1996 through March 2000. The chapters were also published by Shogakukan in fourteen collected volumes...
(Ayashi no Ceres), an anime/manga work - Sailor Ceres, aka CereCere, a character in Sailor Moon
- Seras VictoriaSeras Victoriais a fictional character from both the Hellsing manga series and anime series by Kouta Hirano. In both the television series and the OVA, her seiyū is Fumiko Orikasa. Seras' English voice actor in both series was K. T. Gray....
, a character in the anime/manga Hellsing, of which an alternate romanization is "Ceres" - Ceres Space Colony, from the video game Super MetroidSuper Metroid, also known as Metroid 3, is an action-adventure video game and the third game in the Metroid series. It was designed by Nintendo Research & Development 1, programmed by Intelligent Systems, and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console...
- Geoffrey Fourmyle of Ceres, one of the identities of Gulliver Foyle, in the Alfred Bester book The Stars My DestinationThe Stars My DestinationThe Stars My Destination is a science fiction novel by Alfred Bester. Originally serialized in Galaxy magazine in four parts beginning with the October 1956 issue, it first appeared in book form in the United Kingdom as Tiger! Tiger! – after William Blake's poem "The Tyger", the first verse...
- The Ceres Ocean, in the alternate Earth of the Ace CombatAce CombatAce Combat is a hybrid arcade-simulation flight action video game series featuring 12 games, published by the Japanese company Namco Bandai Games...
video game series
Other uses
- Ceres (workstation)Ceres (workstation)-Ceres Workstation:As a followup project to the Lilith, a machine based on bit-slice technology and the programming language Modula-2, Niklaus Wirth's group started around 1985 another workstation project based on the NS320xx CPU by National Semiconductor...
, a computer workstation built at ETH Zürich - Ceres series (disambiguation), several series of postage stamps representing the goddess Ceres
- HMS CeresHMS CeresThree ships and two shore establishments of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ceres, after the goddess Ceres of Roman mythology.Ships was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1777, renamed HMS Raven in 1782, and captured by the French later that year. was a 32-gun Fifth Rate launched in 1781 and broken up...
, three ships of the British Royal Navy - Ceres, a West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive
- Toyota Corolla Ceres a compact, 4-door hardtop sold in Japan
- Céres, a French Minerve class submarineMinerve class submarineThe Minerve class submarines were a class of submarines built for the French Navy prior to World War II. The class was based on a French Admiralty design.-Submarines of the class:* Minerve, joined the Free French Navy...
- Ceres (2005), an orchestral work by Mark-Anthony TurnageMark-Anthony TurnageMark-Anthony Turnage is a prolific English composer of classical music. His initial musical studies were with Oliver Knussen, John Lambert, and later with Gunther Schuller...
- CAC CeresCAC Ceres|-See also:...
, a crop-duster aircraft manufactured in Australia - Ceres ConnectionCeres ConnectionThe Ceres Connection is a cooperative program between MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and the Society for Science and the Public dedicated for promoting science education...
, a cooperative program between MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and the Society for Science and the Public dedicated for promoting science education - Ceres Futebol ClubeCéres Futebol ClubeCeres Futebol Clube, usually known simply as Ceres, is a Brazilian football team from the city of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro state, founded on July 10, 1933.-History:...
, a Brazilian football team from the city of Rio de Janeiro - Ceres Koekedouw DamCeres Koekedouw DamCeres Koekedouw Dam is dam on the Koekedouw River, near Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa.- References :* from the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry...
, dam on the Koekedouw River, near Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa - Ceres SchoolCeres SchoolCeres School is a historic school building located at Ceres in Allegany County, New York. It was built in 1893 and is a one-story frame structure. It is a surviving example of a late 19th century schoolhouse which served students from both Pennsylvania and New York.It was listed on the National...
, a historic school building located at Ceres in Allegany County, New York. - Ceres StormCeres StormCeres Storm is a 2000 science fiction novel by American author David Herter.-Plot summary:In the distant future on a terraformed Mars, Daric discovers that he is a clone of a former Emperor of Earth named Darius. Daric is kidnapped by Kay-Tee agents in an attempt to bring him to earth to open...
, a 2000 science fiction novel by American author David Herter
Acronyms
- CERES Community Environment ParkCERES Community Environment ParkThe CERES Community Environment Park, or Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies, is an award-winning urban environmental centre located in urban Brunswick East, Victoria, Australia...
(Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies), a community environmental park in Melbourne, Australia - Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy SystemClouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy SystemClouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System is NASA climatological experiment from Earth orbit.The CERES are scientific satellite instruments, part of the NASA's Earth Observing System...
, an on-going NASA meteorological experiment, part of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) program
See also
- CerealCerealCereals are grasses cultivated for the edible components of their grain , composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran...
- Ceres in fictionCeres in fictionAs the largest body in the asteroid belt, the dwarf planet Ceres frequently appears in science fiction:-Literature:*In Garrett P...
- Colonization of CeresColonization of CeresCeres has been proposed as one possible target for human colonization in the inner Solar System.- Physical conditions :Ceres is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, comprising about one third of the mass of the whole belt and being the sixth largest body in the inner Solar System by mass and volume...
, has been proposed as one possible target for human colonization in the inner Solar System - Keres (mythology)Keres (mythology)In Greek mythology, the Keres were female death-spirits. The Keres were daughters of Nyx, and as such the sisters of Fate , Doom , Death and Sleep , Strife , Old Age , Divine Retribution , Charon, and other personifications...
, death spirits unconnected with Ceres - Series (disambiguation)
- SerisSérisSéris is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department in central France.-See also:*Communes of the Loir-et-Cher department...