Lucifer (disambiguation) - Definition

1. Lucifer is the name of the primary fallen angel, and is sometimes applied to the Devil.
2. Lucifer was a term once applied to matches tipped with a mixture of potassium chlorate and antimony sulphide, inflamed by friction on a piece of emery paper. These were superseded by a variety of mixtures containing phosphorus. This is still the Dutch (and British slang) name for matches.
3. Lucifer is a comic book character in an ongoing series published by DC Comics' Vertigo line.
4. Lucifer is a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe.
5. Lucifer is a block cipher which was the forerunner to the Data Encryption Standard.
6. Lucifer is the name of the sun formed of Jupiter in the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke. Its orbit around the Sun, while too distant from Earth to provide much useful heat, virtually eliminates a dark night on Earth.
7. Lucifer is the religious and cultural term for nuclear war or weaponry used in the post-Apocalyptic society depicted in A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.