Dactyl may refer to:
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Dactyl (mythology)
In Greek mythology, the Dactyls or Daktyloi (; from grc, Δάκτυλοι ''Dáktuloi'' "fingers") were the archaic mythical race of male beings associated with the Great Mother, whether as Cybele or Rhea. Their numbers vary, but often they we ...
, a legendary being
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Dactyl (poetry)
A dactyl (; el, δάκτυλος, ''dáktylos'', “finger”) is a foot in poetic meter. In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight. The b ...
, a metrical unit of verse
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Dactyl Foundation
Dactyl Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit arts organization in New York City founded by New York-based artist Neil Grayson and novelist/philosopher of science V.N. Alexander.
History
Founded in 1997 in the "evening of the postmodern day," ...
, an arts organization
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Finger
A finger is a limb of the body and a type of digit, an organ of manipulation and sensation found in the hands of most of the Tetrapods, so also with humans and other primates. Most land vertebrates have five fingers ( Pentadactyly). Chambers ...
, a part of the hand
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Dactylus, part of a decapod crustacean
* "-dactyl", a suffix
used in taxonomy
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Dactyl (moon)
(243) Ida I Dactyl ( ) is a tiny asteroid moon (1.6 km in diameter) that orbits asteroid 243 Ida. It was imaged by the ''Galileo'' spacecraft on August 28, 1993; Dactyl was discovered while examining the delayed image downloads from Galileo on F ...
, a moon of asteroid 243 Ida
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