Eureka Explained
Eureka often refers to:
- Eureka (word), a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes
- Eureka effect, the sudden, unexpected realization of the solution to a problem
Eureka or Ureka may also refer to:
History
Businesses
Media and entertainment
Characters
- Eureka O'Hara, an American drag queen, popularized on Rupaul's Drag Race
- Eureka (Oz), Dorothy Gale's cat in The Wizard of Oz, so named because Uncle Henry found her
- Eureka (Eureka Seven), a main character in Eureka Seven
Film and television
- Eureka (1983 film), a British-American drama directed by Nicolas Roeg
- Eureka (2000 film), a Japanese drama directed by Shinji Aoyama
- Eureka (2020 film), an Indian Telugu-language thriller film by Karteek Anand
- Eureka (2023 film), an Argentine drama directed by Lisandro Alonso
- Eureka! (Canadian TV series), a 1980s Canadian educational series
- Eureka! (2022 TV series), a 2020s American educational series
- Eureka (British TV series), a 1980s British educational series
- Eureka (2006 TV series), an American science fiction series aired 2006–2012
- Eureka (soundtrack), a 2008 soundtrack album
- Eureka TV, a British children's science show aired 2001–2005
- Eureka Learning Channel, a defunct Singaporean educational television channel
Music
Literature
Other media
Places
Australia
Canada
Equatorial Guinea
- San Antonio de Ureca, also called Ureka, on Bioko Island and known as one of the wettest places on Earth
New Zealand
United States
- Eureka, California, the largest US city named Eureka
- Eureka, Colorado
- Eureka, Marion County, Florida
- Eureka, Miami-Dade County, Florida, part of Richmond West, Florida
- Eureka, Illinois
- Eureka, Lawrence County, Indiana, an unincorporated community
- Eureka, Spencer County, Indiana, an unincorporated community
- Eureka, Kansas
- Eureka, Michigan, an unincorporated community
- Eureka, Missouri
- Eureka, Perry County, Missouri
- Eureka, Montana
- Eureka, Nevada
- Eureka, North Carolina
- Eureka, Oregon, an unincorporated community and ghost town
- Eureka, Pennsylvania
- Eureka, South Carolina, an unincorporated community in Aiken County, South Carolina
- Eureka, South Dakota
- Eureka, Texas (disambiguation)
- Eureka, Utah
- Eureka (Baskerville, Virginia), a historic home near Baskerville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia
- Eureka, Washington
- Eureka, West Virginia
- Eureka, Polk County, Wisconsin, a town
- Eureka, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
- Eureka Center, Minnesota
- Eureka Center, Wisconsin
- Eureka County, Nevada
- Eureka Springs, Arkansas
- Eureka Township, Adair County, Iowa
- Eureka Township, Michigan
- Eureka Township, Dakota County, Minnesota
- Eureka Township, Valley County, Nebraska
- Eureka Valley (Inyo County), California
- Eureka Valley, San Francisco, California
Science and technology
- Eureka (organisation), an international research and development funding and coordination network
- Eureka (OPAC), a library search engine developed by RLG
- Eureka! (museum), a museum in Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- The Eureka, a machine for generating Latin verses
- Eureka-147, a system for digital audio broadcast
- Eureka Streams, an open source software project
- Eureka theorem, a result of Gauss that every natural number is the sum of three triangular numbers
- 5261 Eureka, an asteroid co-orbital with Mars
- Constantan, also known as Eureka, a metal alloy
- Heureka, a science centre in Vantaa, Finland
- Eureka, the transponder component of the World War II Rebecca/Eureka transponding radar
- Eureka: The Solver, numerical solver for mathematical systems of equations, released by Borland, 1987
Transportation
Other uses
- Eureka Diamond, the first diamond found in South Africa
- Eureka Mountain (Colorado), a summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range
- Eureka Poker Tour, poker tour in the central and eastern Europe
- Eureka Prizes, annual Australian science prizes presented by the Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
- Eureka Shipyard, a shipyard of the early 20th century in New York State
- Eureka Tower, a 2006 91-storey residential building in Melbourne, Australia
- Disney's Eureka! A California Parade, a former parade in Disney's California Adventure Park
- Eureka! Program, a teen girls' achievement program run by Girls, Inc.
- Asociación Atlética Eureka, known as Eureka, a former football team in Argentina
- Eureka O'Hara, American drag queen
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