Quicksilver

Quicksilver

__NOTOC__Quicksilver can refer to:

Aircraft

* Eipper Quicksilver ultralight aircraft

Clothing

* Quiksilver, a clothing brand specializing in surfing and winter sports

Literature

* Quicksilver (novel), part of "The Baroque Cycle" by Neal Stephenson

Media and entertainment

* DJ Quicksilver, an electronic musician
* Quicksilver (comics), a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe
* Quicksilver (game show), a short-lived USA Network game show
* Quicksilver (film), a film starring Kevin Bacon
* Quicksilver (song), a song by Pink Floyd
* Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1960s California rock band
* "Quicksilver", a track on the album "Light & Shade" by Mike Oldfield
* "Quicksilver", the substance in the series The Invisible Man which allows people or objects to become invisible
* Quicksilver, a character in the playstation game The Unholy War

cience and technology

* Mercury (element)
* Quicksilver (software), a computer application for Mac OS X by Blacktree Software
* Quicksliver (desktop publishing software) see Interleaf
* QuickSilver (project), a software research project at Cornell University
* Quicksilver (ISP), an ISP in New Zealand
* Quicksilver Software, a computer games company based in Irvine, California
* Quicksilver Forums, a forum software
* Certain Power Mac G4 computers carry the byname Quicksilver
* QuickSilver (IBM), a hierarchical storage system with flash memory

port

* Quicksilver (wrestler), the stage name of an American professional wrestler
* Las Vegas Quicksilver - a former soccer team that played for the now-defunct North American Soccer League
* Quicksilver (racehorse), a competitor who finished twenty-first of twenty-three to complete the course at the 1847 Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree


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  • Quicksilver — Исполнитель Pink Floyd Альбом More Дата выпуска 27 июля 1969 (Великобритания) Дата записи …   Википедия

  • Quicksilver — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Este artículo trata sobre el personaje de cómic. Para otros usos de este término, véase Quicksilver (desambiguación). Para el otro personaje del Universo Marvel conocido como Mercurio, véase Mercurio (cómic)… …   Wikipedia Español

  • Quicksilver — Quick sil ver, n. [Quick living + silver; so called from its fluidity; cf. G. quecksilber, L. argentum vivum. See {Quick}, a.] (Chem.) The metal mercury; so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. [1913 Webster] {Quicksilver horizon}, a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • quicksilver — (n.) O.E. cwicseolfor, translating L. argentum vivum (Cf. It. argento vivo), lit. living silver; so called from its liquid mobility. See QUICK (Cf. quick) + SILVER (Cf. silver) (n.) …   Etymology dictionary

  • quicksilver — ► NOUN 1) liquid mercury. 2) (before another noun ) moving or changing rapidly …   English terms dictionary

  • quicksilver — [kwik′sil΄vər] n. [ME < OE cwicseolfor < cwicu, living (see QUICK) + seolfor,SILVER: transl. of L argentum vivum, lit., living silver: from its liquid form] mercury: see MERCURY (n. 3a) vt. to cover with mercury adj. 1. of or like …   English World dictionary

  • Quicksilver — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Quicksilver est un mot anglais signifiant vif argent  , ancienne désignation du mercure. Quicksilver est le nom original du super héros Vif Argent …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Quicksilver — Der Begriff Quicksilver (mittelenglisch: quyksilver, in der englischsprachigen Literatur auch für: Quecksilber) bezeichnet: einen Roman von Neal Stephenson, siehe Barock Zyklus und auch Neal Stephenson einen Film; siehe Quicksilver (Film) den DJ… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • quicksilver — quick|sil|ver [ˈkwıkˌsılvə US ər] n [U] 1.) old use the metal ↑mercury 2.) literary something that is like quicksilver changes or moves quickly in a way that you do not expect ▪ His mood changed like quicksilver. >quicksilver adj ▪ his… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • quicksilver — [[t]kwɪ̱ksɪlvə(r)[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT Quicksilver is the same as mercury. [OLD FASHIONED] 2) ADJ: ADJ n Quicksilver movements or changes are very fast and unpredictable. ...her quicksilver changes of mood …   English dictionary

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