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Revision as of 20:41, 28 July 2009 by Ngebendi (talk | contribs) (→Medicine)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The term dwarf (from Old English dweorg, dweorh; akin to Old High German twerc and modern Norwegian dverg) may refer to:
Medicine
- A person with the condition of dwarfism
Fiction
- The Dwarf, a novel by Pär Lagerkvist
- A race featured in many works of fantasy fiction
Mythology
- Dwarf (mythology): A creature in Germanic mythology and fairy tales
- In Hinduism, the god Vamana (literally "dwarfish") is described as dwarf
- A creature in Norse mythology, specifically:
Biology
- dwarfing (an agricultural term)
- a dwarf plant
- a dwarf rabbit
- Insular dwarfism is a biological term describing effects of population isolation.
Astronomy
- a form of size classification in astronomy, for instance:
- a dwarf star, also known as a main sequence star
- subdwarf
- black dwarf
- brown dwarf
- red dwarf
- white dwarf
- a dwarf galaxy
- a dwarf planet
Other
- DWARF (Debugging With Attributed Record Formats, a debugging data format)
- PYGMIES + DWARFS arguments
The plural form dwarves may refer to:
Topics referred to by the same term
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