Censor may refer to:
Common meanings
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Censoring (statistics), the situation when the value of an observation is only partially known
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Censorship, the control of speech and other forms of human expression
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Census, taken in Ancient Rome by a censor
People with the name
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Cato the Elder, also known as Cato the Censor (Marcus Porcius Cato, 234–149 BC), a Roman statesman
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Yair Censor
Yair Censor (Hebrew: יאיר צנזור, born November 29, 1943) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor at the University of Haifa, specializing in computational mathematics and optimization, as well as applications of these fields, in par ...
(born 1943), Israeli mathematician
Organizations
*Censor, the police of the
Royal College of Physicians
*Imperial
censorate, a high-level supervisory agency in ancient China, whose duties involved criticizing other officials
Titles
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Censor (Christ Church, Oxford)
Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is unique ...
, a student of Christ Church, Oxford undertaking disciplinary duties assigned to deans of other colleges
*Censor, the title of the head of the former Fitzwilliam House; see
List of Masters of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
*Censor of
St Cuthbert's Society, employed by University of Durham to oversee Society members
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Censor Librorum'', an expert called on to advise the bishop of a diocese whether or not to grant an imprimatur
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Chief Censor of New Zealand, the head of the government's Office of Film and Literature Classification
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Roman censor, a magistrate for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, etc.
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Censor'' (2001 film), a drama film written and directed by Dev Anand
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''Censor'' (2021 film), a horror film directed by Prano Bailey-Bond
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"Censor" (song), a single released in 1988 by the band Skinny Puppy, renamed from its original title, "Dogshit"
See also
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Censer, a small metal or stone dish used for burning incense
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Censure, a formal reprimand
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Census,
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Senser,
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Sensor
A sensor is a device that produces an output signal for the purpose of sensing a physical phenomenon.
In the broadest definition, a sensor is a device, module, machine, or subsystem that detects events or changes in its environment and sends ...
, a device or organ that detects or ''senses'' a signal or its environment
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