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Lewis (given name) Lewis () is a masculine English-language given name. It was coined as an anglicisation of given names in other languages. "Lewis" has been used to anglicise the Irish name "'", the German name "", and the French name "" (the last two originally ...
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Lewis (surname) Lewis is a surname in the English language. It has several independent origins. One of the origins of the surname, in England and Wales, is from the Norman personal name ''Lowis'', ''Lodovicus''. This name is from the post-Classical Latin name '' ...
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Music

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Lewis (musician) Randall A. Wulff, better known by his stage name Lewis, and also known as Lewis Baloue and Randy Duke, is a Canadian singer and musician. He released a number of albums in the 1980s, but did not become widely known until they were re-released in 20 ...
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Lewis (Mistreated) ''My Iron Lung'' is the third EP and fifth single by the English rock band Radiohead, released on 26 September 1994 by Parlophone Records in the UK and by Capitol Records in the US. It was produced by Radiohead, John Leckie and Nigel Godrich. T ...
", a song by Radiohead from ''My Iron Lung''


Places

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Lewis (crater) Lewis is a Impact crater, crater on the Far side (Moon), far side of the Moon. It lies along the western edge of the Montes Cordillera mountains that surround the Mare Orientale impact basin. This crater has been heavily disrupted by the formati ...
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Isle of Lewis The Isle of Lewis ( gd, Eilean Leòdhais) or simply Lewis ( gd, Leòdhas, ) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland. The two parts are frequently referred to as ...
, the northern part of Lewis and Harris, Western Isles, Scotland


United States

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Lewis, Colorado Lewis is an unincorporated town, a post office, and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. The Lewis post office has the ZIP Code 81327. At the 2020 census, the population of the Le ...
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Lewis, Indiana Lewis, also known as Lewisburg or Centerville, is an unincorporated community in Vigo County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Originally platted entirely within Vigo County, it has now expanded into adjacent Sullivan County. It is part of the Terr ...
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Lewis, Iowa Lewis is a city in Cass County, Iowa, Cass County, Iowa, United States, along the Nishnabotna River, East Nishnabotna River. The population was 357 at the time of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. Geography Lewis is located at (41.30527 ...
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Lewis, Kansas Lewis is a city in Edwards County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 400. History Lewis was founded about 1885. It was named for journalist M.M. Lewis. The first post office in Lewis was established ...
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Lewis Wharf Lewis Wharf is a showpiece of waterfront urban renewal in Boston's historic North End. The granite structures on the wharf were built as an early 19th-century shopping mall in the era before railroads when water transport was the most efficient wa ...
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Lewis, Essex County, New York : ''There is another Town of Lewis in Lewis County, New York.'' Lewis is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,382 at the 2010 census. The town is named after Morgan Lewis, the governor of New York at the tim ...
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Lewis, Lewis County, New York : ''There is another Town of Lewis in Essex County, New York.'' Lewis is a town in Lewis County, New York, United States. The population was 854 at the 2010 census. The town is named after its county, which is named after former governor, Mor ...
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Lewis, North Carolina Lewis is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in central Granville County, North Carolina, Granville County, North Carolina, United States, north of Oxford, North Carolina, Oxford. Elmwood (Lewis, North Carolina), Elmwood was listed on ...
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Lewis, Vermont Lewis is a town in Essex County, Vermont, United States. The town was named for landholders Nathan, Sevignior, and Timothy Lewis. Although incorporated by the state, the town was never formally organized, since it never gained a sufficiently la ...
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Lewis, Wisconsin Lewis is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Clam Falls, Polk County, Wisconsin, United States. Lewis is located on Wisconsin Highway 35 State Trunk Highway 35 (STH-35, WIS 35) is a Wisconsin state highway runn ...


Ships

* USS ''Lewis'' (1861), a sailing ship * USS ''Lewis'' (DE-535), a destroyer escort in commission from 1944 to 1946


Science

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Lewis structure Lewis structures, also known as Lewis dot formulas, Lewis dot structures, electron dot structures, or Lewis electron dot structures (LEDS), are diagrams that show the chemical bonding, bonding between atoms of a molecule, as well as the lone pairs ...
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Lewis acids and bases A Lewis acid (named for the American physical chemist Gilbert N. Lewis) is a chemical species that contains an empty orbital which is capable of accepting an electron pair from a Lewis base to form a Lewis adduct. A Lewis base, then, is any sp ...
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Lewis antigen system The Lewis antigen system is a human blood group system. It is based upon two genes on chromosome 19: FUT3, or Lewis gene; and FUT2, or Secretor gene. Both genes are expressed in glandular epithelia. FUT2 has a dominant allele which codes for an ...
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Lewis number The Lewis number (Le) is a dimensionless number defined as the ratio of thermal diffusivity to mass diffusivity. It is used to characterize fluid flows where there is simultaneous heat and mass transfer. The Lewis number puts the thickness of the th ...
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Lewis rat A laboratory rat or lab rat is a brown rat of the subspecies '' Rattus norvegicus domestica'' which is bred and kept for scientific research. While less commonly used for research than mice (see laboratory mouse), rats have served as an importa ...
, an inbred strain of laboratory rat


Television

* ''Lewis'' (TV series), a British television detective series * Lewis (''The Simpsons''), a character in ''The Simpsons''


Other uses

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Lewis (cat) Lewis is the name of a cat from Fairfield, Connecticut, who garnered mass media attention for being placed under house arrest in March 2006. At the time of his arrest Lewis was five years old, placing his birthdate between the years 2000 and 200 ...
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Lewis (lifting appliance) Lewis may refer to: Names * Lewis (given name), including a list of people with the given name * Lewis (surname), including a list of people with the surname Music * Lewis (musician), Canadian singer * "Lewis (Mistreated)", a song by Radiohead ...
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Lewis (robot) {{Other uses, Lewis (disambiguation) Lewis (named after Meriwether Lewis) is an autonomous robot that performs the job of a wedding photographer: it attends social events, moves around, and takes digital photographs of people. It is a research pr ...
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Lewis (satellite) Lewis was an American satellite which was to have been operated by NASA as part of the Small Satellite Technology Initiative. It carried two experimental Earth imaging instruments, and an ultraviolet astronomy payload. Due to a design flaw it f ...
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HP Lewis The Saturn family of 4-bit (datapath) microprocessors was developed by Hewlett-Packard in the 1980s first for the HP-71B handheld computer and then later for various HP calculators (starting with the HP-18C). It succeeded the ''Nut'' family of ...
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Lewis's Lewis's was a chain of British department stores that operated from 1856 to 2010. The owners of Lewis's have gone into administration many times over the years, including 1991. The first store, which opened in Liverpool city centre, became ...
, a chain of department stores in England and Scotland (1856-1990s), originating in Liverpool *
Lewis & Co Lewis and Company was a firm of organ builders founded by Thomas Christopher Lewis (1833–1915), one of the leading organ builders of late 19th Century Britain. Born in London in 1833, the son of Thomas Archdeacon Lewis (1780–1862), a secre ...
, a firm of organ builders in Brixton, London from 1860 to 1919 *
Lewis University Lewis University is a private Roman Catholic and Lasallian university in Romeoville, Illinois, United States. The enrollment is currently around 6,800 students. Lewis offers more than 80 undergraduate majors and programs of study, 22 graduate pro ...
, a private school in Romeoville, Illinois


See also

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Fort Lewis, Washington Fort Lewis was a United States Army post from 1917 to 2010 located south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Fort Lewis was merged with McChord Air Force Base on 1 February 2010 to form Joint Base Lewis–McChord. Fort Lewis, named after Meriweth ...
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John Lewis & Partners John Lewis & Partners (formerly and commonly known as John Lewis) is a brand of high-end department stores operating throughout United Kingdom, the UK, with concessions also located in the Republic of Ireland and Australia. The brand sells gene ...
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John Lewis Partnership The John Lewis Partnership plc (JLP) is a British company which operates John Lewis & Partners department stores, Waitrose & Partners supermarkets, its banking and financial services, and other retail-related activities. The privately-held publ ...
, an employee-owned UK company which operates John Lewis and Waitrose *
Justice Lewis (disambiguation) Justice Lewis may refer to: * Charles Lundy Lewis (1852–1936), associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court *Clive Lewis (judge) (born 1960), judge of the High Court of Justice of England * David Lewis (Indiana judge) (1909–1985), associate ...
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Lewes (disambiguation) Lewes is the county town of East Sussex in the United Kingdom. Lewes may also refer to: Places * Lewes (district), a local government district in East Sussex in the United Kingdom * Lewes (UK Parliament constituency), a Parliamentary constituency ...
* ''Lewis and Clark''-class dry cargo ship, a class of vessels *
Lewis and Harris Lewis and Harris ( gd, Leòdhas agus na Hearadh, sco, Lewis an Harris), or Lewis with Harris, is a single Scottish island in the Outer Hebrides, divided by mountains. It is the largest island in Scotland and the third largest in the British ...
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Lewis Bridge (disambiguation) Lewis Bridge may refer to: * Lewis Bridge (Missouri River), in Missouri, United States * Lewis Bridge (Keya Paha River), Springview, Nebraska and Wewela, South Dakota, United States See also * Lewis Bandt Bridge * Lewis River (disambiguation) * ...
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Lewis chessmen The Lewis chessmen ( no, Lewisbrikkene; gd, Fir-Tàilisg; sco, Lewis chesmen) or Uig chessmen, named after the island or the bay where they were found, are a group of distinctive 12th-century chess pieces, along with other game pieces, most o ...
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Lewis County (disambiguation) Lewis County is the name of seven counties in the United States: *Lewis County, Idaho *Lewis County, Kentucky *Lewis County, Missouri * Lewis County, New York * Lewis County, Tennessee *Lewis County, Washington *Lewis County, West Virginia ...
* Lewis gun, a machine gun *
Lewis Island (disambiguation) Lewis Island may refer to: ;Canada * Lewis Island (British Columbia), an island near the mouth of the Skeena River on the North Coast of British Columbia * Crease Island, British Columbia, was formerly known as Lewis Island * Lewis Island (Nova Sco ...
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Lewis River (disambiguation) Lewis River may refer to: * Lewis River (Alaska) * Lewis River (Canterbury), New Zealand * Lewis River (West Coast), New Zealand *Lewis River (Washington) *Lewis River (Wyoming) *the former name of the Snake River in the United States See also ...
* Lewis Township (disambiguation) * Lewis Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation) * Lewisburg (disambiguation) *
Lewisite Lewisite (L) (A-243) is an organoarsenic compound. It was once manufactured in the U.S., Japan, Germany and the Soviet Union for use as a Chemical warfare, chemical weapon, acting as a vesicant (blister agent) and lung irritant. Although the substa ...
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Lewiston (disambiguation) Lewiston may refer to: Places United States * Lewiston, Alabama *Lewiston, California * Lewiston, Georgia *Lewiston, Idaho ** Lewiston, Idaho metropolitan area *Lewiston, Indiana *Lewiston, Maine ** Lewiston, Maine metropolitan area *Lewiston, Mi ...
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Lewistown (disambiguation) Lewistown is the name of several places in the United States, United States of America: *Lewiston, Idaho *Lewistown, Illinois *Lewistown, Kentucky *Lewiston, Maine, originally called Lewistown *Lewistown, Frederick County, Maryland *Lewistown, Talbo ...
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Lewisville (disambiguation) Lewisville may refer to the following places: Canada *Lewisville, New Brunswick, a former village, now part of the cities of Moncton and Dieppe United States *Lewisville, Arkansas *Lewisville, Idaho *Lewisville, Indiana *Lewisville, Minnesota * Le ...
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Louis (disambiguation) Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis (d ...
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Louise (disambiguation) Louise or Luise may refer to: * Louise (given name) Arts Songs * Louise (Bonnie Tyler song), "Louise" (Bonnie Tyler song), 2005 * Louise (The Human League song), "Louise" (The Human League song), 1984 * Louise (Jett Rebel song), "Louise" (Jett ...
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Luas Luas (pronounced ; Irish for "speed") is a tram/ light rail system in Dublin, Ireland. There are two main lines: the Green Line, which began operating on 30 June 2004, and the Red Line which opened on 26 September 2004. Since then, both lin ...
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Luis (disambiguation) Luis is a male given name. It can also refer to: * Luis (letter), the second letter of the Ogham alphabet * ''Luis'' (TV series), a short-lived television sitcom starring Luis Guzmán * Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, main airport in Sa ...
* SS ''Lewis Hamilton'', former name of the ''Indus'' * USNS ''Lewis and Clark'' (T-AKE-1), a United States Navy dry cargo ship * USS ''Lewis and Clark'' (SSBN-644), a United States Navy ballistic missile submarine * USS ''Milton Lewis'' (DE-772), a United States Navy destroyer escort {{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis (Disambiguation)