Fossil (disambiguation)
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A fossil is the mineralized remains of a dead organism.
Fossil may also refer to:
- FOSSIL, a protocol for serial communications
- Fossil (file system), a file system used mainly by Plan 9 from Bell Labs
- Fossil, Inc., a clothing/accessories company
- Fossil, Oregon, a city in the state of Oregon, United States
- Fossilized term, a type of bound morpheme in linguistics
- Fossils (band), a Bengali rock band
- A Pokémon trading card set (see List of Pokémon Trading Card Game sets)
- Fossiles, the 12th movement in the musical suite The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns
- Someone or something can be called a "fossil" figuratively (often as an insult) if he/she/it is extremely old (or the views they hold/represent are seen as archaic).
- Fossilization is a linguistics term which refers to permanent errors in a learner's second language.
