Stirling (disambiguation)
Stirling is a city and former ancient burgh in Scotland, and is at the heart of the wider Stirling council area.
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Stirling may also refer to:
Mathematics
- Stirling's approximation, a formula to approximate large factorials
- Stirling number
- Stirling permutation
Physics and Engineering
- Stirling cycle, a thermodynamic cycle for Stirling devices.
- Stirling engine, a type of heat engine. See also Applications of the Stirling engine.
- Stirling radioisotope generator, a type of radioisotope generator based on a Stirling engine.
- Advanced Stirling radioisotope generator, a power system developed at NASA's Glenn Research Center.
Places
Scotland
- Stirling (council area)
- Stirling (Scottish Parliament constituency)
- Stirling (UK Parliament constituency)
- Stirling (Parliament of Scotland constituency), which ceased to exist in 1707
- Stirling Sill, an outcropping or sill that underlies a large part of central Scotland
- Stirling Village, Aberdeenshire
- Stirlingshire, Scotland, a historic county and registration county.
Australia
- City of Stirling, Perth
- Stirling, Western Australia, a Perth suburb within the City of Stirling
- Division of Stirling, electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives
- Stirling County, Western Australia
- Electoral district of Stirling, an electoral district in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
- Stirling Range, a mountain range in southern Western Australia
- Mount Stirling, Victoria
- Stirling, South Australia, a town east of Adelaide
- Stirling, Australian Capital Territory
- Stirling, Victoria, an abandoned township near Tambo Crossing
- Stirling Park, part of Stirling Linear Park, South Australia
Canada
- Stirling, Alberta, a village
- Stirling, a village in the township of Stirling-Rawdon, Ontario
- Stirlingville, Alberta, Canada, an unincorporated community.
New Zealand
- Stirling, New Zealand, a settlement
Solomon Islands
United States
- Stirling, New Jersey, an unincorporated community
- Stirling (Massaponax, Virginia), a historic plantation
- Stirling City, California, U.S, an unincorporated community
Buildings
- Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland
- Stirling (Reading, Pennsylvania), a historic mansion
Schools
- University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
- Stirling High School, Stirling, Scotland
- Stirling High School, East London, England
- Stirling Theological College, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
- Stirling School, Stirling, Alberta, Canada, a public school
Transportation
- Stirling Highway, connecting Perth and Freemantle, Western Australia
- Stirling railway station (Scotland) in Stirling
- Stirling railway station, Perth in Perth, Western Australia
- MCV Stirling, a bus body
- GNR Stirling 4-2-2, a locomotive class
Military
- Short Stirling, a Second World War British bomber aircraft
- Battle of Stirling (1648), in the Scottish Civil War
- HMAS Stirling, a Royal Australian Navy base
People
- Stirling (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
- Stirling (given name), a list of people
- Clan Stirling, a Lowland Scottish clan
Other uses
- Earl of Stirling, an extinct title in the Peerage of Scotland
- Pound sterling, the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha
- Stirling baronets, various baronetcies
- Stirling Energy Systems, an American renewable energy company
- Stirling Iron Works, the first steel producer in the colony of New York
- Stirling Prize, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects
- Sheriff of Stirling (12th century–1975), the office responsible for enforcing the law in Stirling, Scotland
See also
- Sterling (disambiguation)
- Stirling, Australia (disambiguation)
- Stirling Castle (disambiguation)
- Stirling County (disambiguation)
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