Gnome (disambiguation)

Gnome (disambiguation)

A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and subterranean free lifestyle.

GNOME is a desktop environment for computers running Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

Gnome or GNOME may also mean:
* Gnome is one of the eight elemental spirits featured in the Mana series. He represents the earth element.
* Gnome ("Dungeons & Dragons"), a race in Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
** Gnome ("Dragonlance"), a spin-off of the Dungeons & Dragons gnome
* Gnome (rhetoric), saying or maxim providing instruction in compact form
* "Gnomes" ("South Park" episode)
* "Gnomes" (film), a 1980 film
* Gnome (DC comics), an ember of the DC Comics superhero team Elementals
* Gnomes ("Discworld"), the smallest humanoid species in Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series
* "G-Nome", a PC game
* Gnomes of Zürich, disparaging term for Swiss bankers
* Gnome Engine Company, an aircraft engine manufacturer
* Rolls-Royce Gnome, an aircraft engine
* Project GNOME, a nuclear test in 1961
* Sky Gnome, a device for accessing radio channels and digital television
* The Gnome, a song by British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd

Gnome may also be used for:
* Noldor, one of the tribes of Elves in Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, called Gnomes in Tolkien's early works
* Ramón Mercader, a foreign agent of the USSR codenamed GNOME, who assassinated Leon Trotsky
* GNO/ME, a shell for the Apple IIGS
* Gnome (comics), a villain appearing in the Marvel Comics series "Nightmask"


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