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Argishtihinili
Argishtihinili, also known as Armavir-Blur, was an Urartian city founded by king Argishti I in the 8th century BC on the Araks river near modern Armavir, Armenia.
Argo (2012 film)
Argo (2012) is Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning thriller about the CIA's fake Hollywood film scheme, Studio Six Productions' 'Argo,' that exfiltrated six US diplomats from Tehran in 1980, and the historical-accuracy controversies it sparked.
Argo (oceanography)
Argo is an international ocean-observing program that deploys nearly 4000 robotic profiling floats measuring temperature and salinity to 2000 m, supplying most subsurface climate data.
Argo (Ἀργώ)
Argo (Ἀργώ), "the Swift", is the mythical Greek ship built by Argus in which Jason and the Argonauts sailed to Colchis for the Golden Fleece; a fifty-oared galley with a speaking Dodona oak beam, first attested in Odyssey 12.70.
Argo CD
Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes that syncs live cluster state to Git, one of the two dominant open-source GitOps operators alongside Flux CD.
Argo Chasma
Argo Chasma is a canyon on Charon, Pluto's largest moon, named for Jason's ship in the Argonautica. IAU-approved April 11, 2018; about 700 km long and up to 9 km deep, imaged by New Horizons in 2015.
Argo Infrastructure Partners
Argo Infrastructure Partners is a New York investment manager founded in 2013 by Jason Zibarras, holding 19 North American infrastructure assets worth about $7.5 billion.
Argo Tunnel
Argo Tunnel, renamed Cloudflare Tunnel, is a Cloudflare product introduced in 2018 that lets servers connect only through Cloudflare, using outbound encrypted connections that remove the need for open firewall ports or public IP addresses.
Argo Workflows
Argo Workflows is an open-source, container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes, implemented as a CRD with DAG or step-based workflows. Created by Applatix in 2017, CNCF graduated; latest release v4.1.4.
ARGO-YBJ
ARGO-YBJ was a Sino-Italian extensive air shower detector at the Yangbajing Cosmic Ray Observatory in Tibet, China, operating from 2007 to 2013 for gamma-ray and cosmic-ray physics.
Argolis
Argolis (Αργολίδα, Argolida), regional unit of the northeastern Peloponnese, Greece, centered on the Argive plain. Capital Nafplio, largest city Argos; home to Mycenae, Tiryns, and Epidaurus; 93,282 inhabitants, 2,156 km² (2021).
Argon
Argon is a colorless, odorless noble gas, the third most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, discovered by Lord Rayleigh and William Ramsay in 1894 and widely used as an inert shield in welding.
Argon in food packaging
Argon in food packaging: use of the noble gas argon (E 938, CAS 7440-37-1) as a modified-atmosphere packaging gas. FDA GRAS notice GRN 57 (2000); EU E 938; denser than nitrogen, displaces oxygen, extends shelf-life.
Argon ion laser
The argon ion laser is a gas laser, discovered by William Bridges at Hughes Research Laboratories in 1964, producing blue and green light at 488.0 and 514.5 nm.
Argon plasma coagulation
Argon plasma coagulation (APC) is a non-contact monopolar electrosurgical technique that delivers current through ionized argon gas, used in the gastrointestinal tract and airways for hemostasis and ablation.
Argon-39
Argon-39 (³⁹Ar) is a radioactive argon isotope, produced by cosmic rays, with a half-life of 269 years that dates groundwater and glacier ice between about 50 and 1,000 years old.
Argon-40
Argon-40 is the most abundant stable isotope of argon, produced by decay of potassium-40 and the basis of the potassium-argon and argon-argon dating methods for rocks.
Argon–argon dating
Argon–argon dating (⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating) is an isotopic dating technique, a variant of the potassium–argon method, used on rocks from 2,000 years to 4.5 billion years old.
Argon2
Argon2 is a memory-hard password hashing and key derivation function designed by Alex Biryukov, Daniel Dinu, and Dmitry Khovratovich, winner of the 2015 Password Hashing Competition and standardized as RFC 9106.
Argonaut (animal)
The argonaut (Argonauta), also called the paper nautilus, is a pelagic octopus whose females secrete a thin egg case and drift near the surface of tropical seas.
Argonauta Oil and Gas Field
Argonauta is an offshore oil and gas field in the Campos Basin, off Espírito Santo, Brazil, and one of the three main fields of the Parque das Conchas development.
Argonaute
Argonaute proteins are nucleic acid-guided endonucleases in all domains of life, central to eukaryotic RNA interference (RISC, AGO1-4) and prokaryotic DNA-targeting defense (pAgos, SPARDA), now repurposed for PAM-free biosensing and diagnostics.
Argonaute-binding protein 1
Argonaute-binding protein 1 (Arb1, arb1/SPCC736.11) is a fission yeast ARC complex subunit with Ago1 and Arb2 that loads siRNAs onto Ago1, inhibits slicer activity, and licenses RITS assembly for heterochromatin.
Argonautica (Ἀργοναυτικά)
Argonautica (Ἀργοναυτικά), also The Voyage of Argo: Greek epic in four books, 5,835 hexameters, by Apollonius Rhodius, 3rd-century BC Alexandria, retelling Jason and Medea's quest for the golden fleece.
Argonauts
Argonauts (Ἀργοναῦται): Greek heroes led by Jason who sailed the Argo to Colchis for the Golden Fleece. Known from Pindar, Apollonius's Argonautica, Greek drama, and a crew list sized to fifty oars.
Argonium
Argonium, also called argon hydride, is a molecular ion of argon and a proton, the first noble-gas molecule detected in space, in the Crab Nebula in 2013.
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is a Department of Energy Office of Science facility at Argonne National Laboratory that provides supercomputers for open scientific research, established in 2006.
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne National Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy multidisciplinary research center near Chicago. Chartered in 1946, it is the first U.S. national laboratory, descended from the Manhattan Project.
Argopecten irradians
Argopecten irradians, the Atlantic bay scallop, is a short-lived hermaphroditic pectinid bivalve from Cape Cod to Texas and northeastern Mexico; eelgrass-dependent, historically fished in Massachusetts, New York, and North Carolina, and farmed in China since 1982.
Argopecten purpuratus
Argopecten purpuratus (Peruvian scallop, purple scallop), Lamarck 1819, a fast-growing hermaphroditic scallop of Peru and northern Chile; major aquaculture species, hybridized with the bay scallop in China, narrow temperature tolerance.