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