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'''Eddington''' may refer to:
'''Eddington''' or '''Edington''' may refer to:


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==Places==
;In the United States of America:
*[[Eddington, Maine]]
*[[Eddington, Pennsylvania]]
**[[Eddington (SEPTA station)]]


== People ==
;In the United Kingdom:
*[[Eddington, Berkshire]]
*[[Eddington, Kent]]


*[[Eddington Varmah]], Liberian politician
;In Australia:
*[[Eddington, Victoria]]
*[[Eddington (surname)]], people with the surname


==People==
== Places ==
;As a surname:
*[[Arthur Stanley Eddington]] (1882-1944), English astrophysicist
*[[Michael Eddington]], a fictional character in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''
*[[Patrick G. Eddington]], a former CIA imagery analyst
*[[Paul Eddington]] (1927-1995), English actor
*[[Rod Eddington]] (1950-), Australian businessman


=== Australia ===
;As a given name:
*[[Eddington Varmah]], Liberian politician
* [[Eddington, Victoria]]

=== United Kingdom ===
* [[Eddington, Berkshire]]
* [[Eddington, Cambridge]]
* [[Eddington, Kent]]
* [[Edington, Somerset]]
* [[Edington, Wiltshire]]
** [[Edington Priory]]

=== United States ===
* [[Eddington, Maine]]
* [[Eddington, Pennsylvania]]
** [[Eddington (SEPTA station)]]


==Other==
== Other uses ==
* [[Battle of Edington]], decisive victory by Alfred the Great
;Things named after Arthur Stanley '''Eddington''':
*[[Eddington (crater)]] on the Moon
* [[Eddington (film)|''Eddington'' (film)]], upcoming film by Ari Aster
*[[Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates]] used in the theory of general relativity
* [[Eddington (horse)]], American thoroughbred racehorse
*[[Eddington luminosity]], or Eddington limit, relating to the maximum mass of a star
*[[Eddington Medal]], awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society
*[[Eddington mission]], an ESA mission to search extrasolar planets (cancelled)
*The '''Eddington-Dirac number''' can refer to the [[Dirac large numbers hypothesis]]


=== Named after Sir Arthur Eddington ===
== See also ==
* [[Eddington (crater)]], on the Moon
*[[Edington]]
* [[Eddington (spacecraft)]], a cancelled ESA mission to search for extrasolar planets
* [[Eddington luminosity]] or Eddington limit, relating to the maximum mass of a star
* [[Eddington Medal]], awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society
* [[Eddington number]], the number of protons in the observable universe
* Eddington–Dirac number, alternative name for the [[Dirac large numbers hypothesis]]
* [[Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates]], in the theory of general relativity


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