Aqua
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Music
- Aqua (band)Aqua (band)Aqua is a Danish dance-pop group, best known for their 1997 breakthrough single "Barbie Girl". The group formed in 1989 and achieved huge success across the globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The group managed to top the UK Singles Chart with their first three singles. The group released two...
, a Danish pop band - Aqua (producer)Aqua (producer)Nicholas McCarrell , otherwise known as Aqua, is an American record producer and composer of film and television scores. As a record producer, he has most notably worked with Roc-a-fella Records artists Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Beanie Sigel...
(born 1982), American record producer and composer of film and television scores - Aqua, album by Edgar FroeseEdgar FroeseEdgar Wilmar Froese is a German artist and electronic music pioneer, best known for founding the electronic music group, Tangerine Dream. Although his solo and group recordings prior to 2003 name him as "Edgar Froese", his solo albums from 2003 onward bear the artist name "Edgar W. Froese".Froese...
- Aqua (Asia album), 1992
- "Aqua", a piano piece by Ryuichi SakamotoRyuichi SakamotoAfter working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...
- Aqua (Angra album)Aqua (Angra album)- Standard version :- Disc 1 :- Disc 2 :- Side one :- Side two :- Side three :- Side four :- Personnel :* Eduardo Falaschi - Vocals* Kiko Loureiro - Guitar* Rafael Bittencourt - Guitar...
, 2010
Other uses
- Aqua (Kingdom Hearts)Aqua (Kingdom Hearts)is a fictional character from Square Enix's video game franchise Kingdom Hearts. Having first made cameo appearances in the game Kingdom Hearts II, Aqua was introduced as one of the three main characters from Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, a prequel of the series released in 2010...
, a fictional character from Square Enix's video game franchise Kingdom Hearts - Aqua (manga), a Japanese manga by Amano Kozue
- Aqua (user interface)Aqua (user interface)Aqua is the GUI and primary visual theme of Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system. It is based around the theme of water, as its name suggests, with droplet-like elements and liberal use of translucency and reflection effects...
, the primary theme of Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X user interface - Aqua (color)Aqua (color)Aqua is a tone of the color cyan which is identical to the color electric cyan, one of the three secondary colors of the HSV color wheel, along with magenta and yellow. It is precisely halfway between green and blue on the color wheel...
, an X11 or web color name for the tone exactly halfway between green and blue - Aqua (video game)Aqua (video game)Aqua is an arcade-action shooter with tactical elements, driven by a steampunk story in which the vast majority of the world is covered with water. Aqua was developed by Games Distillery on their own proprietary engine and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was released for the Xbox 360 via...
, a 2010 video game for Xbox LIVE Arcade - Aqua (satellite)Aqua (satellite)Aqua is a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite in orbit around the Earth, studying the precipitation, evaporation, and cycling of water. It is the second major component of the Earth Observing System preceded by Terra and followed by Aura .The name "Aqua" comes from the Latin word...
, a satellite part of the Earth Observing System - Aqua (skyscraper), an 86-story residential skyscraper in Chicago
- Aqua AmericaAqua AmericaAqua Americas utility services reach 2.8 million residential customers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana, Virginia, Florida, North Carolina, Maine, Missouri, New York and South Carolina.-Acquisitions:...
, a water utility in the eastern United States - Aqua Restaurant, an upscale restaurant in San Francisco, California and Las Vegas, Nevada
- Project AquaProject AquaProject Aqua is an abandoned hydroelectric scheme once proposed for the lower Waitaki River in New Zealand. Although the scheme had considerable support from some locals, it met with considerable opposition from others, and Meridian Energy decided in March 2004 not to go ahead with the project.The...
, a proposed hydroelectric scheme for Waitaki River, New Zealand - Aqua (ingredient) also known as deionized water
- SukhumiSukhumiSukhumi is the capital of Abkhazia, a disputed region on the Black Sea coast. The city suffered heavily during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict in the early 1990s.-Naming:...
, the capital of Abkhazia, as a variant spelling of its Abkhaz name Akwa
See also
- Aquamarine (disambiguation)Aquamarine (disambiguation)Aquamarine may mean:* Aquamarine , a color, a shade between green and blue and clear* Aquamarine , a gemstone-quality blue berylAquamarine may also refer to:...
- AquamanAquamanAquaman is a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger, the character debuted in More Fun Comics #73 . Initially a backup feature in DC's anthology titles, Aquaman later starred in several volumes of a solo title...
, a fictional superhero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics