What is "shannon"

river in Ireland, the name is something like "old man river," from a Proto-Celtic word related to Irish sean "old" (see senile).

Shannon ("wise river") is an Irish name, Anglicised from Sionainn. Alternative spellings include Shannen, Shanon, Shannan, Seanan, and Siannon. The variant Shanna is an Anglicisation of Sionna ("possessor of wisdom").

Sionainn derives from the Irish name Abha na tSionainn for the River Shannon. Because the suffix ain indicates a diminutive in Irish, the name is sometimes mistranslated as "little wise one".

Shannon Brenda Greene (born May 2, 1962), better known by the mononym Shannon, is an American recording artist and singer of high energy and dance-pop music and songwriter. She is best known for her million-selling record single " Let the Music Play". She is considered the "Queen of High Energy ."

Her albums include Let the Music Play, released in 1984, followed by Do You Wanna Get Away (1985) and Love Goes All the Way (1986). In 1999, Shannon appeared in a segment of VH1's One-Hit Wonders, and returned to music with her fourth album, The Best is Yet to Come, which was released in 2000. The album was followed by a compilation album released in 2004, Let The Music Play: The Best of Shannon. Shannon's most recent album is A Beauty Returns, released in 2007. In 2016, Carnival Cruise Lines is running a current national television campaign featuring music perofrmed by Shannon. A new 2016 single is scheduled to be released the 3rd quarter of 2016.

Shannon may refer to:

• Shannon (given name)
• Shannon (horse) (1941–1955), Australian Hall-of-Fame racehorse
• Shannon (surname)
• Earl of Shannon, a title in the Irish peerage
• Shannon index, a biodiversity index
• shannon (unit), the information content of one bit

Shannon is an American crime drama series that aired in syndication from September 26, 1961 to June 12, 1962. The series stars George Nader as the title Joe Shannon, an insurance investigator for the Transport Bonding and Surety Company. Regis Toomey portrays Shannon's boss Bill Cochran. Shannon drove a modern 1961 Buick Special, equipped with cameras, a dictating machine, tape recorders, weapons, and notably, a mobile phone (decades before cell phones) when car phones were rare. The car required a long whip antenna for the phone.

Shannon is an hour-long 9-episode CBS crime drama starring Kevin Dobson.

Shannon is an English steam locomotive, built in 1857 George England and Co. for the Sandy and Potton Railway and now preserved at the Didcot Railway Centre.

Shannon (1941–1955), named Shannon II in America, was an outstanding Australian Thoroughbred racehorse who was inducted into the Hall of Fame. He created new racecourse records in Australia before he was sold to an American buyer who exported him to California in 1948. There Shannon equalled the world record of 1:47 for the nine furlongs (1,800 metres) in winning the Forty Niner Handicap Stakes, then one week later equalled the world record of 1:59 for a mile and a quarter (2,000 metres). Shannon was named the 1948 American Champion Older Male Horse. At stud in America he proved to be a good sire.

Shannon, MacShannon, and O'Shannon are Anglicised Irish and Scottish surnames that derive from the Gaelic word seanachaidh, which means "skilled storyteller". Seanachaidh is a corruption of the Old Irish word senchaid.

Other forms of the name are Gilshenan and Giltennen. It is also connected to O'Shawnessey or O'Shannahan.

Several old Gaelic names of Scottish and Irish people alike were Anglicised as Shannon, despite being unrelated.

The 1990 United States Census found that Shannon was a very common surname (#679 out of 88,799) in the United States.

The shannon (symbol Sh), also known as a bit, is a unit of information and of entropy defined by IEC 80000-13. One shannon is the information content of an event when the probability of that event occurring is one half. It is also the entropy of a system with two equiprobable states. If a message is made of a sequence of bits, with all possible bit strings equally likely, the message's information content expressed in shannons is equal to the number of bits in the sequence. For this and historical reasons, a shannon is more commonly known as a bit, despite that "bit" is also used as a unit of data (or of computer storage, equal to 1/8 of a byte).

The shannon is named after Claude Shannon.

Shannon Areum Williams (; born 26 May 1998), better known by the mononym Shannon Pix or Shannon Williams, is a British Korean singer and actress based in South Korea. She debuted in 2014 under MBK Entertainment division, DAP SOUND.