Scavenger (disambiguation)
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Scavenger is an organism that seeks and feeds on discarded or abandoned material such as carrion or detritus.
Scavenger or Scavenging may also refer to:
Science and technology
- Energy scavenging or energy harvesting, the capturing energy for autonomous devices
- Scavenger (chemistry), a method of removing impurities or other undesired chemicals from a mixture
- Scavenger receptors, a group of pattern recognition receptors of the innate immune system
- Scavenging (automotive), automotive process of pushing exhausted gas-charge out of the cylinder and drawing in fresh air
- CPU scavenging, salvaging of machine time
- SCVNGR, a social location-based gaming platform for mobile phones
Film, television, and games
- Scavenger (Transformers), characters in the Transformers series
- Scavengers (game show), a British game show
- Scavenger hunt, a game
- Scavenger, Inc., a video game publisher
- Scavenger (audio drama), a 2014 audio drama based on the television series Doctor Who
- The Scavengers (1959 film)
- The Scavengers (1969 film)
- Scavengers (2013 film)
Music
- The Scavengers, a New Zealand punk rock band from the 1970s
- Scavenger (album), a 1991 album by The Walkabouts
- Scavengers (album), a 2001 album by Calla
- The Scavenger, a 1966 album by Nat Adderley
Other
- Operation Scavenger, a World War II operation in the Pacific theater
- Waste picker, a person who picks recyclable elements from waste
- Mule scavenger, an old profession whereby a person retrieves cotton from underneath a spinning machine
- Scavenger’s daughter, a rack-like torture instrument
- Scavenger (Peter Mortimer), an armored enemy of Aquaman
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