Science and Technology
- Wood wool, commonly known as excelsior, a wood sliver material used for packaging, for the pads in evaporative coolers, and for other applications
- Project Excelsior, a high-altitude skydiving project in the 1950s
- Excelsior Diamond, a famous diamond, once the largest known
- Fraxinus excelsior, the Linnaean name for the European Ash tree
- Excelsior Manxman, a motorcycle
- Excelsior tank, a British experimental heavy assault tank
- Excelsior JET, a Java compiler
- St Croix Excelsior, ultralight aircraft
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