Aqua is the Latin word for
water
Water (chemical formula ) is an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms (in which it acts as a ...
. It is used in many words which relate to water, such as aquatic life. In English, it may also refer to:
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Aqua (color)
Aqua (Latin for "water") is a variation of the color cyan. The normalized color coordinates for the two web colors named aqua and cyan are identical. It was one of the three secondary colors of the RGB color model used on computer and television ...
, a greenish-blue color
Business
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Aqua (skyscraper)
Aqua is an 82-story mixed-use skyscraper in Lakeshore East, downtown Chicago, Illinois. Designed by a team led by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects, with James Loewenberg of Loewenberg & Associates as the Architect of Record, it includes fiv ...
, an 82-story residential skyscraper in Chicago, US
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Aqua Multiespacio
Aqua Multiespacio is an office skyscraper in Valencia, Spain. Completed in 2006, it has 22 floors and stands tall. This makes it the third tallest building in Valencia, after the Hilton Valencia and Torre de Francia.
The complex consists of tw ...
, a 22-story office building in Valencia, Spain
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Aqua Restaurant
Laurent Manrique (born March 30, 1966) is a French restaurateur and Michelin-starred chef. He currently owns establishments in San Francisco. He was the Corporate Executive Chef of Aqua, an upscale seafood restaurant in San Francisco, where he e ...
, an upscale seafood restaurant in San Francisco, US
* Aqua, a brand owned by
Haier
Haier Group Corporation () is a Chinese multinational home appliances and consumer electronics company headquartered in Qingdao, Shandong. It designs, develops, manufactures and sells products including refrigerators, air conditioners, washin ...
Entertainment
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Aqua (''Kingdom Hearts''), a fictional character from Square Enix's video game series.
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Aqua (''KonoSuba''), a fictional character renowned for her lack of use from the light novel series ''KonoSuba''.
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''Aqua'' (manga), a Japanese manga by Amano Kozue.
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''Aqua'' (video game), a 2010 video game for Xbox LIVE.
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Team Aqua
A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal.
As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to infor ...
, a fictional villainous team from ''Pokémon Sapphire'', and ''Pokémon Emerald'' and ''Pokémon Alpha Sapphire''.
Music
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''Aqua'' (Angra album), 2010
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''Aqua'' (Asia album), 1992
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Aqua (band)
Aqua is a Danish-Norwegian Europop and Dance-pop band, best known for their 1997 multi-platinum crossover and novelty single "Barbie Girl". The group formed in 1989 as Joyspeed, and achieved international success around the globe in the late 19 ...
, a Danish eurodance group
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''Aqua'' (Edgar Froese album), 1974
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Aqua (record producer)
Nicholas McCarrell (born April 6, 1982), professionally 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 ...
(born 1982), American record producer and composer
* "Aqua", a song by Ryuichi Sakamoto on the 1999 album ''
BTTB
BTCL or Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited is the largest telecommunications company in Bangladesh. The company was founded as the Bangladesh Telegraph & Telephone Board (BTTB) following Bangladesh's independence in 1971. On July 1, 2008 ...
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Aqua (ingredient)
Purified water is water that has been mechanically filtered or processed to remove impurities and make it suitable for use. Distilled water was, formerly, the most common form of purified water, but, in recent years, water is more frequently puri ...
, purified water used in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals
* Aqua, a brand of drinking water owned by
Danone
Danone S.A. () is a French multinational corporation, multinational food-products corporation based in Paris. It was founded in Barcelona, Spain. It is listed on Euronext Paris where it is a component of the CAC 40 stock market index. Some of t ...
in Indonesia
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Aqua (satellite)
Aqua (EOS PM-1) is a 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 (EOS) preceded by Terra (launched 199 ...
, a multi-national NASA scientific research satellite
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Aqua (user interface)
Aqua is the graphical user interface, design language and Theme (computing), visual theme of Apple Inc., Apple's macOS operating system. It was originally based on the theme of water, with droplet-like components and a liberal use of reflection ...
, the visual theme of Apple's macOS operating system
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Aqua America
Essential Utilities (formerly Aqua America and Peoples Natural Gas) is an American utility company that has stakes in Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia The company provides drinking water and wa ...
, a water and wastewater utility company in several states, US
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Project Aqua
Project Aqua was a hydroelectric scheme proposed for the lower Waitaki River in New Zealand. Although the scheme had considerable support from some locals, it met with opposition from many other groups, and Meridian Energy decided in March 2004 no ...
, a proposed hydroelectric scheme for the Waitaki River, New Zealand
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Agua (disambiguation)
Agua means water in Spanish.
Agua may also refer to:
Places
* ''Agua de Dios'' (God's water), a municipality in Colombia
* Volcán de Agua, a stratovolcano located in Guatemala
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Agua'' (film), a 2006 Argentin ...
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Aquagrill
Aquagrill was a seafood restaurant located at 210 Spring Street (on the corner of Sixth Avenue), in SoHo in Manhattan, in New York City. It was opened in 1996 by owners Jennifer and Jeremy Marshall and closed in June, 2020, due to the economic ef ...
, a seafood restaurant in New York City
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Aquaman
Aquaman is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger, the character debuted in ''More Fun Comics'' #73 (November 1941). The character is a pastiche of Namor. Initially ...
, a fictional comic book superhero
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Aquamarine (disambiguation)
Aquamarine may refer to:
* Aquamarine (color), a shade between green and blue
* Aquamarine (gemstone), a type of blue beryl
Aquamarine may also refer to:
Arts and media
* ''Aquamarine'' (novel), a 2001 novel by Alice Hoffman
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Aquaculture
Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lot ...
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Aqwa
Sukhumi (russian: Суху́м(и), ) or Sokhumi ( ka, სოხუმი, ), also known by its Abkhaz name Aqwa ( ab, Аҟәа, ''Aqwa''), is a city in a wide bay on the Black Sea's eastern coast. It is both the capital and largest city of ...
, the capital of Abkhazia
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