Metropolis (disambiguation)
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A metropolis is a large city, and/or a major cultural or economic center.

Metropolis may also refer to:

In geography

As cities

As places

  • Toronto Life Square, formerly 'Metropolis', a development in Toronto, Canada
  • Metrotown, also known as 'Metropolis at Metrotown', the second-largest shopping center in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

As fictional places

In film, radio and television

In music

In books and magazines

In mathematics

  • Nicholas Metropolis (1915 – 1999), a mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project
  • Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, a statistical procedure named after mathematicians Nicholas Metropolis and W.K. Hastings
  • Metropolis light transport, an application of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for creating images from descriptions of 3-dimensional scenes

In transportation

In organizations

  • Metropolis Project, the world's largest international research project studying human migration
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