Pathfinder, Path Finder or Pathfinders may refer to:
Aerospace
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Mars Pathfinder
''Mars Pathfinder'' (''MESUR Pathfinder'') is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a lightweight, wheeled robot ...
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
The ''Pathfinder Roleplaying Game'' is a fantasy role-playing game (RPG) that was published in 2009 by Paizo Publishing. The first edition extends and modifies the System Reference Document (SRD) based on the revised 3rd edition ''Dungeons & ...
The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea
''The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea'' is a historical novel by American author James Fenimore Cooper, first published in 1840 in literature, 1840. It is the fourth novel Cooper wrote featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and the t ...
'', an 1840 novel by James Fenimore Cooper
* ''Pathfinders'' (novel), a 1944 novel by Cecil Lewis
* ''Pathfinder'' (novel), a 2010 novel by Orson Scott Card
* ''TodHunter Moon, Book One: PathFinder'', a 2014 novel by
Angie Sage
Angie Sage (born 20 June 1952) is an English author of children's literature, including the ''Septimus Heap'' series, the ''TodHunter Moon'' trilogy, and the ''Araminta Spook'' series (''Araminta Spookie'', in the United States).
Life
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Businesses
* Pathfinder Energy Services, a division of
Smith International
Smith International was a Fortune 500 company headquartered in the Greenspoint district and in unincorporated Harris County, Texas.Pathfinder Press, a publisher of socialist literature
Pathfinder (library science)
A pathfinder is a bibliography created to help begin research in a particular topic or subject area. (Pathfinders are also called subject guides, topic guides, research guides, libguides, information portals, resource lists or study guides). Pathf ...
, a subject bibliography often offered on library websites
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Pathfinder (website)
Pathfinder was a landing page with links to various Time Inc. websites. In its initial form, Pathfinder was one of the first web portals, created as Time Warner's entry onto the Internet. The objective of Pathfinder was to be an all-encompassing ...
Java Pathfinder
Java Pathfinder (JPF) is a system to verify executable Java bytecode programs. JPF was developed at the NASA Ames Research Center and open sourced in 2005. The acronym JPF is not to be confused with the unrelated ''Java Plugin Framework'' project. ...
, a software testing tool
Military
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Pathfinder (military)
In military organizations, a pathfinder is a specialized soldier inserted or dropped into place in order to set up and operate drop zones, pickup zones, and helicopter landing sites for airborne operations, air resupply operations, or othe ...
, a type of soldier
* Pathfinder (RAF), English target-marking squadrons during World War II
* Pathfinder (USAAF), American radar-equipped bombers during World War II
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Pathfinders Company (Portugal)
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, caption = Portuguese Pathfinder's with Italian Paratroopers.
, nickname = ''Precs''
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, a Portuguese military unit
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Pathfinder Platoon
The Pathfinder Platoon is a pathfinder unit of the British Army, and an integral part of 16 Air Assault Brigade. The Pathfinder Platoon acts as the brigade's advance force and reconnaissance force. Its role includes locating and marking drop zones ...
Piasecki 16H Pathfinder
The Piasecki 16H was a series of compound helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and ...
, an experimental series of helicopters produced in the 1960s for the US Army
* Pathfinder, a nickname of the
8th Infantry Division (United States)
The 8th Infantry Division, ("Pathfinder") was an infantry division of the United States Army during the 20th century. The division served in World War I, World War II, and Operation Desert Storm. Initially activated in January 1918, the unit di ...
Pathfinders (Seventh-day Adventist)
The Pathfinder Club, or simply Pathfinders, is a department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA), which works specifically with the cultural, social and religious education of children and teens. Boys and Girls 10 years and up are memb ...
, a youth organization
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Pathfinder International
Pathfinder International, based in Watertown, Massachusetts, US, is a global non-profit organization 501(c)(3) that focuses on reproductive health, family planning, HIV/AIDS prevention and care, and maternal health. The organization operates in m ...
, an American reproductive health organization
Places
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Pathfinder National Wildlife Refuge
Pathfinder National Wildlife Refuge is located in the U.S. state of Wyoming and includes 16,807 acres (68 km2). The refuge is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, both agencies within the U. ...
, Wyoming, United States
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Pathfinder Dam
Pathfinder Dam is a cyclopean masonry, masonry dam, located on the North Platte River, approximately southwest of Casper, Wyoming. It was originally constructed from 1905 to 1909 as part of the North Platte Project and has been modified several ...
, on the North Platte River, Wyoming
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Pathfinder Reservoir
Pathfinder Reservoir is located in the U.S. state of Wyoming on the North Platte River between Casper and Rawlins. It sits 47 miles (76 km) southwest of Casper, in Carbon County and Natrona County. The reservoir was created by Pathfinder Da ...
, Wyoming
* Camp Pathfinder, a boys' camp in Ontario, Canada
Transportation
Aircraft
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Keystone Pathfinder
The Keystone K-47 Pathfinder was an airliner developed in the United States in the late 1920s, built only in prototype form.
Design and development
The Pathfinder was an attempt by the Keystone Aircraft Corporation to develop a civil transport v ...
, a 1920s airliner, built only as a prototype
* Pathfinder, the marketing name of the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, a light, piston-powered aircraft from 1974 to 1977
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Soloy Pathfinder 21
The Soloy Pathfinder 21 was a twin-engined, single-propeller, turboprop aircraft. It is a modification by Soloy Aviation Solutions of a Cessna 208 Caravan airframe. First flown in 1995, the aircraft was essentially a stock Cessna 208 airframe tha ...
, a twin-engined, single propeller turboprop aircraft
Riley Pathfinder
The Riley Pathfinder is an automobile which was produced by Riley Motors Limited in the United Kingdom from 1953 to 1957. It was first presented at the London Motor Show in October 1953 and replaced the RMF as Riley's top-line model.
Design ...
, a British automobile produced from 1953 to 1957
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Wright Pathfinder
The Wright Pathfinder is a low entry and low floor single-decker bus body built on Dennis Lance SLF and Scania N113CRL chassis by Wrightbus between 1993 and 1995.
History
Of the 95 Pathfinders produced, London Regional Transport subsidiaries ...
Pathfinder Parkway
Pathfinder Parkway is a walking, jogging and biking trail that traverses Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Bartlesville is a city mostly in Washington County in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 37,290 at the 2020 census. Bartlesville is n ...
, an Oklahoma walking, jogging and biking trail
Other uses
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John C. Frémont
John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, military officer, and politician. He was a U.S. Senator from California and was the first Republican nominee for president of the United States in 1856 ...
(1813–1890), military officer and explorer nicknamed "The Pathfinder"
* Pathfinder March, an annual walk connecting all the RAF Pathfinder air stations from the Second World War
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Pathfinder Nuclear Generating Station
The Pathfinder Atomic Power Plant was a nuclear power plant built by Northern States Power Company. It was located just northeast of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and west of its suburb of Brandon. It was named for the 19th century explorer John C. ...
, a former power plant near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
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Charter Arms Pathfinder
Charter Arms Co. is an American manufacturer of revolvers. Since its founding in 1964, Charter Arms has produced revolvers chambered in the following calibers: .22 Long Rifle, .22 Winchester Magnum, .32 Long, .32 H&R Magnum, .327 Federal Magn ...
Milton Keynes Pathfinders
The Ouse Valley Eagles are a British American Football team based in Bedford, United Kingdom. They play their home games at the Bedford Athletic Rugby Club. They are a member of the BAFA National Leagues Division 2, playing in the southern fo ...
, an American football team based in Milton Keynes, England
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Adenocaulon bicolor
''Adenocaulon bicolor'', the American trailplant, trailplant, pathfinder, or silver-green, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to North America. It is found in southern Canada and across the northern and western United States. I ...
'', a flowering plant in the daisy family known as Pathfinder
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Ulmus parvifolia 'Pathfinder'
The Chinese Elm cultivar ''Ulmus parvifolia'' 'Pathfinder' is another development by A. M. Townsend of the USDA National Arboretum registered in 1990.
Description
The tree is of modest proportions, rarely reaching > 11 m in height, with a ...
, a Chinese Elm cultivar
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Housing Market Renewal Initiative
The Housing Market Renewal Initiative (HMRI) or Housing Market Renewal (HMR) Pathfinders programme was a controversial Cole, Ian and Flint, John ''Addressing housing affordability, clearance and relocation issues in the Housing Market Renewal Path ...
, a UK programme, also referred to as Pathfinder
See also
* Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806–1873), Navy captain and oceanographer nicknamed "Pathfinder of the Seas"
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Pathfinding
Pathfinding or pathing is the plotting, by a computer application, of the shortest route between two points. It is a more practical variant on solving mazes. This field of research is based heavily on Dijkstra's algorithm for finding the sh ...
, as in algorithms for finding a route
* '' Sakigake'' (translated into English as "Pathfinder" or "Pioneer"), Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft
* '' Sperrbrecher'', a category of auxiliary warships used by the German Kriegsmarine during World War II, sometimes called ''Pathfinder''
* Wolf pack Pfadfinder (German for "pathfinder"), a German World War II wolf pack in the Battle of the Atlantic
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isogram
A heterogram (from ''hetero-'', meaning 'different', + ''-gram'', meaning 'written') is a word, phrase, or sentence in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once. The terms isogram and nonpattern word have also been used to mean the s ...
, of which "pathfinder" is an example that can be used as a numerical cipher
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