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Censor

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Censor may refer to:

People with the name

  • Cato the Elder, also known as Cato the Censor (Marcus Porcius Cato, 234–149 BC), a Roman statesman
  • Yair Censor (born 1943), Israeli mathematician

Organizations

Titles

  • Censor (Christ Church, Oxford), a student of Christ Church, Oxford undertaking disciplinary duties assigned to deans of other colleges
  • Censor, the title of the head of the former Fitzwilliam House; see List of Masters of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
  • Censor of St Cuthbert's Society, employed by University of Durham to oversee Society members
  • Censor Librorum, an expert called on to advise the bishop of diocese whether or not to grant an imprimatur
  • Chief Censor of New Zealand, the head of the government's Office of Film and Literature Classification
  • Roman censor, a magistrate for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, etc.

Arts, entertainment, and media

  • 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

  • Censer, a small metal or stone dish used for burning incense
  • Censoring (statistics), the situation when the value of an observation is only partially known
  • Censorship, the control of speech and other forms of human expression
  • Censure, a formal reprimand
  • Census
  • Sensor, a device or organ that detects or senses a signal or its environment
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