Metis

Metis (μῆτις) meant "cunningness" or "wisdom, craft, skill" in Ancient Greek.

Metis may also refer to:

Culture groups

• Métis (of French origin, cognate of mestizo and mestiço), people of mixed race
• Métis people (Canada), a mixed-race people of Canada
• Métis people (United States), a mixed-race people of the United States

Astronomy

• Metis (moon), the innermost of Jupiter's known moons
• 9 Metis, an asteroid
• The Mid-infrared imager and Spectrograph (METIS) for the European Extremely Large Telescope

Individual people

• Metis (Japanese musician), a Japanese reggae singer
• Metis (American musician), an American rapper

Mythology

• Metis (mythology), a Titaness and the first wife of Zeus

Geography

• St. Paul, Alberta, formerly Saint-Paul-des-Métis, Canada
• Métis-sur-Mer, Quebec, Canada
• Grand-Métis, Quebec, Canada
• Metiş, a village in Mihăileni Commune, Sibiu County, Romania
• Metis Shoal, the tip of a submarine volcano in Tonga, which occasionally erupts to form the temporary island Late'iki

Other

• The METIS 2020 Project, EU Project addressing the definition of the 5G mobile technologies ^[1]
• Metis (software), business modeling software
• Metis, a fictional breed of werewolves in the role-playing game Werewolf: The Apocalypse
• 9K115 Metis and 9K115-2 Metis-M, Russian anti–tank missile systems
• Metis TransPacific Airlines, a Canadian airline based in Vancouver
• Metis Technical Services LLC, www.metis.ae/ A Dubai based Technical Services Company, undertake Plumbing,Electrical,Carpentry, AMC, Masonry etc. Works

See also

• Metisse, windowing software
• Metius, Dutch geometer
• Metius (crater), a lunar impact crater

References

1. "The METIS 2020 Project". 1 November 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2013.