Agate (disambiguation)

Agate (disambiguation)

Agate may refer to:

In Minerals:
*Agate, a semi-precious stone
*Fire Agate, a layered stone
*Moss agate, a semi-precious gemstone
*Greek agate, a colored agate found in Sicily back to 400 B.C
*Lake Superior agate, a type of Agate found on the shores of Lake Superior

In Geography:
*Agate, Colorado, a U.S. town
*Agate, North Dakota, a community in the U.S. state of North Dakota
*Agate Beach, Oregon, a community in the U.S. state of Oregon
*Agate Desert in Oregon
*Agate Pass, a strait in Puget Sound, Washington
*Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, a U.S. National Monument

In Technology:
*A NASA program known as AGATE or the Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments
*Agate (rocket), the French rocket

*AGATE, a framework for modeling system architectures, promoted by the Délégation Générale pour l'Armement

Other uses:
* Agate (unit of measure), A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
*the surname "Agate"; see List of people with surname Agate
*Statistical data run in newspapers at small sizes, such as stock tables or sports results


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