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Man (disambiguation)

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A man is an adult male of the modern human species, its individuals, and nearest extinct relatives. See also man (word) for the etymology.

Man or MAN may also refer to:

Places

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Music

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Businesses

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  • MAN Truck & Bus, a German engineering company that manufactures (amongst other things) buses and trucks
  • Man Group plc, a British financial services company
  • The stock symbol of Manpower, Inc., an American employment agency

Political organizations

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Computing

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  • Metropolitan area network, large computer networks usually spanning a campus or a city
  • The "man" command, used to retrieve a man page, a software documentation page on Unix and Unix-like operating systems

People

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Other uses

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  • A chess piece or pawn; sometimes the word "piece" is defined to exclude pawns.
  • Man!, American anarchist periodical, 1933–1940
  • Man (name) (includes a list of people with the name)
  • The Man, derisive slang phrase for higher authority
  • Man or Nanman, ancient Chinese ethnic group
  • Standard romanization of the Manchu people
  • Man (Middle-earth), people in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Man (journal) (1901–1994), continued by The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
  • Man (unit), an ancient Arabic and Persian unit of mass
  • "Man", a statue by Virgil Cantini
  • Ultraman, a Japanese television series often referred to as "Man"
  • Mard (1985 film), or Man, 1985 Indian action film by Manmohan Desai
  • In neo-pagan Germanic mysticism, the alternative name of the Norse Algiz rune, where it is used as a purported life rune

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