Metis Explained
Metis or Métis, meaning "mixed" in French, may refer to:
Ethnic groups
- Métis, recognized Indigenous communities in Canada and the United States whose distinct culture and language emerged after early intermarriage between First Nations peoples and early European settlers, primarily French fur trappers
Places
- Grand-Métis, Quebec, Canada
- Métis-sur-Mer, Quebec, Canada
- Saint-Paul-des-Métis, now St. Paul, Alberta, Canada
- Metis Shoal, the tip of a submarine volcano in Tonga
- Metiş, a village in Mihăileni, Sibiu, Romania
- Metis Island in Antarctica
Other uses
- 9 Metis, an asteroid
- 9K115 Metis, a Russian anti–tank missile system
- 9K115-2 Metis-M, a Russian anti–tank missile system
- Metis (American musician) (fl. 21st century), American rapper
- Metis (theorem prover), an automated theorem prover
- Metis (Japanese musician) (born 1984), Japanese reggae singer
- Metis (moon), the innermost and fastest-moving of Jupiter's known moons
- Metis (mythology), an Oceanid and the first wife of Zeus
- Metis (software), business modeling software
- Metis (software), integrated cloud-based system provided by Oracle for Home Office
- METIS, a software package for graph partitioning
- METIS, an instrument planned to be installed in the Extremely Large Telescope
- Metis TransPacific Airlines, a Canadian airline based in Vancouver
- Metis (holothurian), or Actinopyga, a genus of sea cucumbers
- Metis (Character), a playable character from Persona 3 FES
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