Nimrod () means "Hunter"; was a Biblical Mesopotamian king mentioned in the Table of Nations; an eponym for the city of Nimrud.Nimrod can also refer to any of the following:
Nimród Antal, a director
Nimrod , referring to a silly or foolish person
Nimrod , 8 GeV proton synchrotron which operated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory until 1978
9.3X82 RWG Nimrod, a black powder cartridge dating back to the 1890s
Places:
Nimrod , a village on the Golan Heights
Nimrod, Minnesota
Nimrod, Oregon
Nimrod Fortress, on the Golan Heights
Mount Nimrod, in Ross Dependency, Antarctica
Nimrod Province in Afghanistan
Nimrud, an ancient city in Mesopotamia
Vehicles:
Hawker Nimrod, a 1930s British fighter aircraft
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod, a Royal Air Force maritime patrol aircraft now supported by BAE Systems
Nimrod , a Hungarian anti-aircraft tank from World War II
Nimrod , an Israeli anti-tank guided missile
Nimrod , the ship used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1908 Antarctic expedition
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Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.I.M.R.O.D