Tortoise (disambiguation)

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A tortoise is a land-dwelling reptile, protected by a shell, of the order Testudines.

Tortoise may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Chelys, ancient Greek lyre meaning "Tortoise" or "Turtle"
• Tortoise (band), a US post-rock band formed in 1990
  • Tortoise (album), their debut 1994 release
• Tortoise Media, a British news media platform
• Tortoises, a 1921 short volume of D. H. Lawrence poetry, all later collected in Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923)
• Tortoise Matsumoto (born 1966), lead singer of a Japanese rock band Ulfuls

Geometry

• Tortoise coordinate, the foundation of the Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates

Warfare

• Tortoise formation, a defensive formation employed by Ancient Rome
• Tortoise heavy assault tank, a British heavy assault gun

See also

• Hare (disambiguation), for Tortoise and Hare stories
• TortoiseBzr, a GUI integrated Bazaar client for the Microsoft Windows platform
• TortoiseCVS, a GUI integrated CVS client for the Microsoft Windows platform
• TortoiseGit, a GUI integrated Git client for the Microsoft Windows platform
• TortoiseHg, a GUI integrated Mercurial client
• TortoiseSVN, a GUI integrated Subversion client for the Microsoft Windows platform
• Tortoiseshell (disambiguation)
• Turtle (disambiguation)