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• Triton, a Greek god; his name and image have come to be associated with a class of mythological beings called Tritons.
• King Triton is also the name of Princess Ariel's father in the Disney movie, The Little Mermaid.
• Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune.
• Triton, a novel by Samuel R. Delany.
• The Ford Triton engine, a DOHC V8 engine made by the Ford Motor Company.
• The Korg Triton workstation synthesizer.
• A newt or salamander.
• A tritiumTritium (symbol T or 3H is an isotope of hydrogen. The nucleus of tritium contains one proton and two neutrons, whereas a normal hydrogen nucleus consists of just one proton. Its atomic weight is 3. It is a gas (T or 3H) at standard temperature and pressu nucleus, particularly one used as a bombarding particle or emitted in a nuclear reaction.
• Triton X-100 is a detergent that is often used in extraction buffers because it solublizes proteins.
• Triton , a demo group.
• Triton was a name for a communication network utilising Enigma machineIn the history of cryptography, the Enigma was a portable cipher machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages. More precisely, Enigma was a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines — there were a variety of different models. The Enigma w used by German War Navy during the Second World War
• RV TritonTriton, a prototype British tri-maran which is a scaled-down model of a future frigate. The Triton name is presumably a deliberate reference to the maritime god incorporating the prefix "tri" which relates well to the three parallel hulls. The outer hulls or HMS TritonAt least four (and probably several more) ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Triton after the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, the personification of the roaring waters. HMS Triton 24 (also spelled Tryton , was burned on 28 April 1758 to avoid, ships in the BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly Royal Navy.
• USS Triton:
  • USCGC Triton, a 165-foot cutter which operated out of United States Coast Guard Base 15 at Biloxi, Mississippi during the Prohibition.
  • USS Triton (YT-10) , a 212-ton tug built at Camden, New Jersey in 1889 and purchased in that year by the United States Navy.
  • USS Triton (SS-201), a submarine lost during World War II.
  • USCGC Triton (WPC/WMEC-116), a United States Coast Guard patrol boat that served almost simultaneously with the previous submarine.
  • USS Triton (SSRN/SSN-586), a nuclear-powered radar picket submarine, the first vessel to execute a submerged circumnavigation of the Earth.