Onyx (disambiguation)

Onyx is a banded variety of chalcedony (quartz).

Onyx can also be used to mean the color black, especially "jet" black.

Onyx may also refer to:

Locations

• Onyx, California, a census-designated place located in Kern County, California
• Onyx Cave, a common name for caves in the United States
• Onyx River, a meltwater stream in the Antarctic
• The titular fictitious planet in the novel Halo: Ghosts of Onyx

People and characters

• Onyx (wrestler), the pro wrestler Kyle McNeely
• Onyx (comics), a fictional comic book character in the DC Universe, mainly associated with the Batman titles
• Onix, a fictional character in the Pokémon series
• Onyx Von Trollenberg, a character from the animated series Trollz
• Onyx Primal, a Predacon Assassin from the Beast Wars: Transformers cartoon series

Medicine

• Onyx (Interventional radiology), EVOH based liquid embolic agent

Music

• Onyx (group), a Queens-based hip-hop group
• The Onyx, a Cornish 1960s band
• The Onyx Hotel Tour, 2004 tour by pop singer Britney Spears
• In the 1940s, one of the three top jazz clubs in Manhattan 52nd Street Jazz center

Organizations

• Onyx Soundlab, a Connecticut recording studio
• Onyx Software Corporation, a customer, process and performance management software company
• Onyx Graphics, large-format inkjet color management software company
• Onyx Grand Prix, a short-lived Formula One team, 1989-1990
• Onyx Environnement, the waste management division of Veolia Environnement
• Onyx Sports Cars

Technology

• SGI Onyx, a line of symmetric multiprocessing computers from Silicon Graphics that are frequently used for high-end graphics, modeling, and simulation work
• Synaptics Onyx, a concept cellphone designed to display Synaptics ClearPad technology
• Onyx (satellite), a code name often associated with newer variants of the Lacrosse satellite, a series of reconnaissance satellite owned by the United States National Reconnaissance Office
• Onyx (interception system), a Swiss intelligence gathering system
• Onyx (programming language), a BSD-licensed embeddable stack-based programming language
• Onyx-015, an adenovirus being researched for cancer treatment
• OnyX, a freeware system maintenance and optimization tool for Mac OS X
• ONIX (ONline Information eXchange), an XML Schema for representing book industry product information
• Onyx Systems, a company that made computer systems based on the Zilog Z8000 microprocessor and Bell Labs' Unix
• BlackBerry Bold 9700 (codenamed "Onyx"), a smartphone from RIM

Vessels

• USS Onyx (PYc-5) a United States Navy patrol vessel of the mid-20th century
• HMS Onyx, the name of seven ships of the Royal Navy
• M/Y Onyx, privately owned Super-yacht
• MS Onyx, a passenger ferry formerly known as Fennia and Casino Express

See also

• Onix (disambiguation)
• P-800 Oniks — Russian (former Soviet) supersonic anti-ship cruise missile.

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