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Ceres


Ceres commonly refers to either:
- Ceres (dwarf planet), smallest of the five identified dwarf planets, originally classified as a planet, and later as the largest asteroid.
- Ceres (Roman mythology), the Roman goddess of agriculture.
Ceres may also refer to:

Places

United States


- Ceres, California
- Ceres, Georgia
- Ceres, Iowa
- Ceres, New York
- Ceres, Oklahoma
- Ceres, Virginia
- Ceres, Washington
- Ceres, West Virginia

Other countries


- Ceres, Santa Fe, Argentina
- Ceres, Victoria, Australia
- Ceres, Goiás, Brazil
- Ceres (TO), Italy
- Ceres, Fife, Scotland
- Ceres, Western Cape, South Africa

Businesses


- Ceres Brewery, a brewery in Aarhus, Denmark
- Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises, a Greek shipping company
- Ceres (organization), a coalition of investors and environmentalists (formerly the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies)
- Ceres Fruit Juices, the South African juice company
- Ceres, Inc., the developer of energy crops
- Ceres Liner, a bus company in the Philippines
- Ceres (software), an agricultural software from Belgium
- Ceres (truck) (세레스), a light truck produced by Kia Motors in the 1980s and 1990s.

In fiction


- Ceres, Celestial Legend (''Ayashi no Ceres''), an anime/manga work. The main character Aya is descended from a celestial Goddess named Ceres.
- CereCere, a character in the anime TV series ''Sailor Moon''
- Seras Victoria, a character in the anime/manga ''Hellsing'', of which an alternate romanization is "Ceres"
- Ceres Space Colony, from the video game Super Metroid.
- Geoffrey Fourmyle of Ceres, one of the identities of Gulliver Foyle, in the Alfred Bester book The Stars My Destination
- The Ceres Ocean, located between the continents of Osea and Verusea in the alternate Earth of the Ace Combat video game series.

Other uses


- The plural of cere, a structure at the base of some bird's beaks.
- Ceres (workstation), a computer workstation
- Ceres series, a series of postage stamps representing the goddess Ceres
- HMS Ceres|HMS ''Ceres'', three ships of the British Royal Navy
- West Cornwall Railway#Locomotives|Ceres, a West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive

Acronyms


- CERES Community Environment Park (Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies), a community environmental park in Melbourne, Australia
- Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, an on-going NASA meteorological experiment, part of NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) program

See also


- Cereal
- Keres (Greek mythology), death spirits unconnected with Ceres.
- Seris
- Series

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