Triton Explained

Triton commonly refers to:

• Triton (mythology), a Greek god
• Triton (moon), a satellite of Neptune

Triton may also refer to:

Biology

• Triton cockatoo, a parrot
• Triton (gastropod), a group of sea snails
• Triton, a synonym of Triturus, a genus of newts

Companies

• Triton, a bass boat manufacturer
• Triton (fashion), a Brazilian fashion brand owned by Colcci
• Triton Airlines, a Canadian airline operating from 1993 to 1994
• Triton Digital
• Triton Energy Limited, an American oil and natural gas exploration and production company
• Triton Media Group, owner of radio stations
• Triton Showers, the UK's largest manufacturer of electric showers
• Triton Submarines, an American manufacturer of private submarines
• Triton Systems, a manufacturer of automated teller machines

Film and television

• Triton (1961 TV series), a BBC television adventure series
• Triton (1968 TV series), a BBC television adventure series, remake of the earlier show

Fountains

• Fontana del Tritone, Rome
• Fountain of the Tritons, Rome, completed in 1715
• Triton Fountain (Malta), Valletta, Malta, created in 1959

Literature

• Triton (collection), a 1949 collection of fantasy short stories by L. Ron Hubbard
• Triton (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Triton (novel), a 1976 novel by Samuel R. Delany
• Tritón (magazine), a Mexican magazine dedicated to swimming, diving and water polo

Military and government

• , various Royal Navy vessels
• Triton-class submarine or T-class, a class of British vessels
• , various US Navy vessels
• , various Danish Navy vessels
  • HDMS Triton (F358), a Danish Navy frigate
  • HDMS Triton (1790), an earlier Danish frigate
• RV Triton, a trimaran vessel used by the Australian Custom Service, and formerly by the Royal Navy for research
• USCGC Triton, a list of US Coast Guard vessels
  • USCGC Triton (WPC-116), a US Coast Guard patrol boat commissioned in 1934
• Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton, a United States Navy unmanned aerial vehicle
• Triton, a World War II encryption network using the Enigma machine
• Triton, a Type 209 submarine of the Hellenic Navy
• , a class of Dutch diving support vessels
• , various Dutch Navy vessels

People

• Tritón (wrestler) (born 1987), Mexican luchador enmascarado

Characters

• King Triton, a character in The Little Mermaid
• Luke Triton, a character in Professor Layton
• Thomas Triton, a character in The Deptford Mice

Mascots

• Triton, mascot of Eckerd College
• Triton, mascot of Edmonds College
• Triton, mascot of Pacifica High School (Oxnard, California)
• Triton, mascot of Mariner High School (Cape Coral, Florida)
• Triton, mascot of San Clemente High School (San Clemente, California)
• Triton, mascot of the University of California, San Diego
• Triton, mascot of the University of Guam
• Triton, mascot of the University of Missouri–St. Louis

Places

• Triton Point, a point on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica
• Triton, Newfoundland and Labrador, a village in Canada
• Triton Bay, an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
• Triton River, a river flowing into Lake Copais, Greece
• Triton Bay, Kaimana, West Papua, Indonesia
• Triton Island, a Paracel Island in the South China Sea

Schools

• Triton High School (disambiguation)
  • Triton Regional High School (New Jersey), a high school in Runnemede, New Jersey
• Triton College, Illinois, United States
• Triton Regional School District, a school district in Massachusetts, United States

Sport

• UC San Diego Tritons, an athletic sports team for the University of California, San Diego
• Tampa Bay Tritons, a defunct professional roller hockey team
• Triton Financial Classic, a golf tournament on the Champions Tour from 2003 to 2009
• UMSL Tritons, University of Missouri–St. Louis athletic squad
• White Rock Tritons, a youth baseball team in South Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
• Seigneurie du Triton, a hunting and fishing club in Quebec, Canada

Technology

• Triton (content delivery), a digital delivery and digital rights management service until 2006
• Triton disk drive, a product that allows 2.8-inch floppy disks to be read on various home computers
• E Ink Triton, an electronic paper technology
• Korg Triton, a music workstation synthesizer
• Triton chipset, an Intel Pentium chipset
• Triton X-100, a nonionic surfactant
• TRITON, a SODAR system for measuring sound wave scattering
• AIM Triton, a version of the AOL Instant Messenger software
• Triton, a line of GPS receivers manufactured by Magellan Navigation
• Triton (malware), used to attack the Triconex control system at a power plant
• Triton (programming language) a Python-based programming language for use in AI projects developed by OpenAI

Vehicles

Air

• Sikorsky S-61T Triton, a helicopter
• Sud-Ouest Triton, a jet aircraft
• Micronautix Triton, a 4-6 place flight experience aircraft
• Triton, the Super Constellation airliner involved in the KLM Flight 633 crash

Land

• Mitsubishi Triton, a pickup truck
• Triton motorcycle, a hybrid Triumph–Norton motorcycle of the 1960s-1970s
• Ford Triton engine

Sea

• Triton (steamboat), a vessel that operated on Lake Washington in the first part of the 20th century
• MV Coral, formerly Triton, a cruise ship from 1991 to 2004
• Pearson Triton, a sailboat
• Triton 22, an American sailboat design
• Triton 24 sailing yacht, a sloop manufactured in Sydney, Australia, throughout the 1980s
• Triton 25, an American sailboat design

Other uses

• Triton (physics), the nucleus of tritium, an isotope of hydrogen
• Triton (chamber music society), a chamber music society founded in Paris 1932 by Pierre-Octave Ferroud
• Triton (demogroup), a demo group active in the PC demoscene from 1992 to about 1996
• Triton (Dungeons & Dragons), a fictional species in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game
• Triton (fairy chess piece), a combined Rook and Locust
• Energy-Quest Triton Expedition, a deep sea voyage
• Operation Triton, a border security operation in the Mediterranean Sea
• Triton X-100, a wetting agent
• Triton Knoll, a proposed offshore wind farm off the coast of Lincolnshire, England, UK
• Triton Light, a navigational beacon on the seawall of the United States Naval Academy, US
• Triton Museum of Art, a museum in Santa Clara, California, US
• Triton City, a concept for a floating city proposed by Buckminster Fuller

See also

• Benzyltrimethylammonium hydroxide or Triton B
• Tritone (disambiguation)
• Tritones (disambiguation)
• Tritonia (disambiguation)
• Tri-toon, a type of boat
• Tritton
• Tryton, a general purpose computer application platform