Springer

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Springer or springers may refer to:

Places

• Springer, New Mexico
• Springer, Oklahoma
• Springer Mountain, southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail
• Springer Opera House, Columbus, Georgia

Animals

• In cattle, a cow or heifer near to calving
• English Springer Spaniel, a breed of dog
• Welsh Springer Spaniel, a breed of dog
• Springer (orca), a wild orca (killer whale) also known as A73

Publishers

• The most famous is Springer-Verlag, founded 1842. It was a worldwide publishing group based in Germany.
  • Since 2002/2004 see Springer Science+Business Media, until 2015 a worldwide publishing group based in Germany, including the company formerly known as Springer-Verlag
  • since 2015 part of Springer Nature, a multinational academic publishing group created by the merger of Springer Science+Business Media, Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education
• Axel Springer SE, an important conservative German publishing house, including of several newspapers
• Springer Publishing, an American publishing company of academic journals and books, focusing on public health and the like

Vehicle-related

• Springer (tank), a small demolition vehicle of the German Wehrmacht in WW2
• The British Army's name for the Tomcar
• Springer fork, a type of motorcycle fork

Other

• Springer (architecture), the first voussoir of an arch
• Springer (EP), a 2003 record by the Danish music band Efterklang
• Springer (Transformers), a Transformers character
• The Jerry Springer Show
• Big Spring Bombers, sometimes referred to as "Springers"
• Springer, an interstellar teleporter featured in A Million Open Doors, a science fiction novel by John Barnes

See also

• Springer (surname)
• Justice Springer (disambiguation)