Amoeba (disambiguation)

Amoeba (sometimes amœba or ameba, plural amoebae, amoebas or amebas) is a type of cell or organism which has the ability to alter its shape, primarily by extending and retracting pseudopods.

Amoeba or variants may also refer to:

Biology

• Amoeba (genus), a genus of single-celled protists in the family Amoebidae
• Amoebozoa, a large group of protists that includes the genus Amoeba

Arts and entertainment

• Amoeba Music, an independent music chain
• Amoeba (band), an experimental music group with Robert Rich and Rick Davies
• Amoeba (album), a 1991 album by the band Critters Buggin
• "Amoeba" (song), a 1981 song by the Adolescents
• "Amoeba", a 2019 song by Clairo from Sling
• Amoeba (film), a 2016 Malayalam film

Other uses

• Ameba (website), a Japanese social networking website
• Amoeba (mathematics), a certain type of set
• Amoeba order, a mathematical construction in set theory
• Amoeba (operating system)
• Amoeba defense, a basketball strategy
• Amoeba method, a type of downhill search algorithm for finding minima (optima)
• Amoeba Management, a management system designed by Kyocera founder Kazuo Inamori