Alcor
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Alcor can refer to:
- Alcor (star), also known as 80 Ursae Majoris, a star in Ursa MajorUrsa MajorUrsa Major , also known as the Great Bear, is a constellation visible throughout the year in most of the northern hemisphere. It can best be seen in April...
very close to MizarMizar (star)The Mizar–Alcor stellar sextuple system consists of the quadruple system Mizar and the binary system Alcor.- Description :Mizar is a quadruple system of two binary stars in the constellation Ursa Major and is the second star from the end of the Big Dipper's handle. Its apparent magnitude is 2.23... - Alcor Life Extension FoundationAlcor Life Extension FoundationThe Alcor Life Extension Foundation, most often referred to as Alcor, is a Scottsdale, Arizona, USA-based nonprofit company that researches, advocates for and performs cryonics, the preservation of humans in liquid nitrogen after legal death, with hopes of restoring them to full health when new...
- Alcor sailplane, a high altitude pressurized sailplane developed by aeronautical engineer Robert Lamson
- ALCORALCORALCOR is an early computer language definition created by the ALCOR Group, a consortium of universitites, research institutions and manufacturers in Europe and the USA which was founded in 1959 and which had 60 members in 1966. The group had the aim of a common compiler specification for a subset...
, a programming language - French name of the anime and manga hero Kouji Kabuto