Auger
Not to be confused with augur (disambiguation) or agar (disambiguation).
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Auger may refer to:
- Auger (drill), a drill for boring holes, e.g. in wood or in the earth
- Auger (surname)
- Auger conveyor, a screw conveyor; a device for moving material or liquid by means of a rotating helical flighting
- Auger shell or auger snail, a common name for shellfish of the family terebridae.
- Auger effect, an electron effect in physics
- Auger electron spectroscopy, an analytical technique using the Auger effect
- Auger therapy, an experimental radiation therapy for the treatment of cancer
- Auger Hill, a hill in Antarctica, so-named because an auger was used take deep soil samples from its summit
- The Pierre Auger Observatory, an international cosmic ray observatory
- Auger weapon, a fictional rifle that drills through walls from the video game Resistance: Fall of Man
- A fictional gemstone from The Asher Bloom Chronicles series of novels
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