Auger may refer to:

Engineering

Wood auger An auger is a device to drill wood or other materials, consisting of a rotating metal shaft with a blade at the end that scrapes or cuts the wood. Types The classical design has a helical screw blade winding around the bottom end of the sha ...

, a drill for making holes in wood (or in the ground) **

Auger bit Drill bits are cutting tools used in a drill to remove material to create holes, almost always of circular cross-section. Drill bits come in many sizes and shapes and can create different kinds of holes in many different materials. In order ...

, a drill bit *

Auger conveyor A screw conveyor or auger conveyor is a mechanism that uses a rotating helical screw blade, called a "''flighting''", usually within a tube, to move liquid or granular materials. They are used in many bulk handling industries. Screw conveyo ...

, a device for moving material by means of a rotating helical flighting * Auger (platform), the world's first tension leg oil rig; see '' Big, Bigger, Biggest''

Science and technology

Auger effect The Auger effect or Auger−Meitner effect is a physical phenomenon in which the filling of an inner-shell vacancy of an atom is accompanied by the emission of an electron from the same atom. When a core electron is removed, leaving a vacancy, ...

, an electron effect in physics * Auger electron spectroscopy, an analytical technique using the Auger effect * Auger shell or auger snail, a common name for shellfish of the family Terebridae *

Auger therapy Auger therapy is a form of radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer which relies on low-energy electrons (emitted by the Auger effect) to damage cancer cells, rather than the high-energy radiation used in traditional radiation therapy. Simil ...

, an experimental radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer

Other uses

* Auger (surname) * Auger Hill, a hill in Antarctica

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