Tetra (disambiguation)

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Tetra is the name of many species of freshwater fish in the family Characidae from Africa, Central America and South America.

Tetra may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Tetra (album) (stylised as Tetr4), the first album from the French break-beat band C2C
  • Tetra, an alias for Princess Zelda in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
  • Tetra Galaxy, the fictional galaxy in the game Metroid Prime Hunters

Businesses

  • Tetra (company), a supplier of aquarium equipment and fish food
  • Tetra Pak, a multinational food packaging and processing company of Swedish origin
  • Tetra Tech, an environmental engineering and resource management firm

Science and technology

  • Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA), a European standard for trunked radio networks
  • Tetra (mite), a genus of mites in the family Eriophyidae
  • Tetra (monkey), a rhesus macaque that was the first successfully birthed primate created via an artificial cloning technique
  • Tetra (unit), a proposed unit of information by Donald Knuth denoting 32 bits
  • Mitsubishi TETRA, a concept car first exhibited in 1997

Other uses

  • Tetra-, a numeral prefix for 4
    • Tetraphobia, the practice of avoiding instances of the digit 4
  • Tetraplegia, shortened to tetra, dysfunction or loss of motor and/or sensory function of the spinal cord

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Tetra
  • Humbert Tétras, a French ultralight aircraft
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