Censor

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Censor may refer to:

People and organizations

• Roman censor, a magistrate for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, etc.
• Censor Librorum, an expert called on to advise the bishop of diocese whether or not to grant an imprimatur
• Imperial censorate, a high-level supervisory agency in ancient China, whose duties involved criticizing other officials
• Censor of St Cuthbert's Society, employed by University of Durham to oversee Society members
• Cato the Censor (Marcus Porcius Cato, 234–149 BC), Roman statesman
• Censor (Christ Church, Oxford), the student of Christ Church, Oxford undertaking disciplinary duties assigned to deans of other colleges
• Censor, the police of the Royal College of Physicians
• Chief Censor of New Zealand, the head of the government's Office of Film and Literature Classification
• Yair Censor (born 1943), Israeli mathematician

Other

• Censorship, the control of speech and other forms of human expression
• Censoring (statistics), the situation when the value of an observation is only partially known
• Censor (film), a 2001 film written and directed by Dev Anand
• "Censor" (song), a single released by the band Skinny Puppy for the song "Dogshit" in 1988

See also

• Sensor, a device or organ that detects or senses a signal or its environment
• Censure, a formal reprimand
• Censer, a small metal or stone dish used for burning incense