Main may refer to:
Geography
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Main River (disambiguation)
**Most commonly the
Main (river)
The Main () is the longest tributary of the Rhine. It rises as the White Main in the Fichtel Mountains of northeastern Bavaria and flows west through central Germany for to meet the Rhine below Rüsselsheim, Hesse. The cities of Mainz and Wie ...
in Germany
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Main, Iran
Main ( fa, مائين, also Romanized as Mā’īn; also known as Mahīān, Māhīn, Mā’īnī, and Qal‘eh Now-e Mā’īn) is a village in Abarj Rural District, Dorudzan District, Marvdasht County, Fars Province, Iran
Iran, offi ...
, a village in Fars Province
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Spanish Main
During the Spanish colonization of America, the Spanish Main was the collective term for the parts of the Spanish Empire that were on the mainland of the Americas and had coastlines on the Caribbean Sea or Gulf of Mexico. The term was used to di ...
", the Caribbean coasts of mainland Spanish territories in the 16th and 17th centuries
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The Main
Saint Laurent Boulevard, also known as Saint Lawrence Boulevard (officially in french: boulevard Saint-Laurent), is a major street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A commercial artery and cultural heritage site, the street runs north–south through ...
'', the diverse core running through Montreal, Quebec, Canada, also separating the Two Solitudes
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Main (lunar crater)
Main is a lunar impact crater that is located near the north pole of the Moon. The southern rim of this formation has merged with the larger crater Challis to the south, and the level interior floor connects the two craters through a narrower ga ...
, located near the north pole of the Moon
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Main (Martian crater)
Main is an impact crater on Mars, located in the Mare Australe quadrangle at 76.6°S latitude and 310.9°W longitude. It measures 109.0 kilometers in diameter and was named after Rev. Robert Main. The name was approved in 1973, by the Internatio ...
People and organisations
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Main (surname) Main is a surname. People with it include:
* Alan Main, Scottish football goalkeeper
* Alexander H. Main. American politician
* Anne Main, British politician
* Bert Main, Australian zoologist
* Charles T. Main, American engineer
* Frank Main ( ...
, a list of people with this family name
*Ma'in, alternate spelling for the
Minaeans, an ancient people of modern-day Yemen
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Main (band)
Main were a British band formed in 1991 by guitarists Robert Hampson and Scott Dowson, both formerly of the English rock band Loop. Drawing on that group's experimentation with drones and guitar texture, the duo moved further into ambient so ...
, a British ambient band formed in 1991
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Chas. T. Main
Chas. T. Main Inc. was an engineering company of the United States founded in 1893 and specialized in power generation—mainly hydroelectric power. In 1985, the company was bought by Parsons Corporation.
History
It was founded in 1893 by Charle ...
, an American engineering and hydroelectric company founded in 1893
*MAIN (Mountain Area Information Network), former operator of
WPVM-LP (MAIN-FM) in Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.
Ships
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''Main'' (ship), an iron sailing ship launched in 1884
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SS ''Main'', list of steamships with this name
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''Main'' (A515), a modern German replenishment ship
* Short for
mainsail
Other
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Main (cigarette), a European brand
*Main function, another name for the
entry point in a computer program, where control switches from the operating system to the program
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Main course
A main course is the featured or primary dish in a meal consisting of several courses. It usually follows the entrée ("entry") course.
Typically, the main course is the meal that is the heaviest, heartiest, and most intricate or substantial o ...
, the featured or primary dish in a meal
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Main Page, the principal page of Wikipedia
See also
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Main Street (disambiguation)
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Maine (disambiguation)
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Mains (disambiguation)
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Mane (disambiguation)
Mane may refer to:
*Mane (horse), the line of hair along the spine of the neck
*Mane (lion), the hair found around the male mammal's neck
In arts and entertainment
* ''Mane'' (film) is a 1990 Kannada language film directed by Girish Kasaravalli
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Justice Main (disambiguation) Justice Main may refer to:
* James Allen Main (born 1945), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama
* John F. Main, associate justice of the Washington Supreme Court
See also
* Main Justice, the centralized headquarters of the United Stat ...
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