Action
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Action may refer to:
- Action (philosophy), something a person can do
- Action (music), a characteristic of a stringed instrument
- Action (fiction), a genre in various formats, specifically:
- Action (piano), the mechanism which drops the hammer on the string when a key is pressed
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[edit] Music
- The Action, a 1960s band
- Action (Punchline album)
- Action (B'z album)
- "Action" (song), a 1976 song by Sweet
- "Feeling This" or "Action", a song by Blink-182
- Action, a 1984 album by Kiddo
- Action, a 1967 album by ? and the Mysterians
[edit] Dramatic works
- Action (radio), a 1945 radio program
- Action (comics), a British comic book published in 1976-1977
- Action (TV series), a comedy series on FOX in 1999-2000
- Action (1921 film), a 1921 film by John Ford
- Action! (novel), a Nancy Drew Girl Detective series novel
[edit] Businesses and organizations
- Action (supermarkets), an Australian supermarket chain
- ACTION, an Australian public transport company
- ACTION (U.S. government agency), a former United States government agency
- Action Ambulance, an emergency care and ambulance service
[edit] Science and technology
- Action (physics), an attribute of the development of a system over a period of time
- Action (UML), a specific piece of functionality in the Unified Modeling Language
- Action!, a programming language for Atari microcomputers
- Firearm action, a system of operation in a firearm
- Structural load or action
- Actions, a building block of web applications on the Apache Struts framework
[edit] Other
- Action (literature)
- Action (TV), a French television channel
- Action (TV channel), a Canadian digital cable channel
- Action, a break dancer in the New York City Breakers
[edit] See also
- Collective action, the provision of public goods through collaboration
- Direct action, an instance of political activism
- Social actions, which take into account actions and reactions of other individuals
- Strike action, a deliberate absence from work
- Lawsuit, sometimes called a civil action and actio
- Action painting, a style of painting
- Military action (combat), a scale of combat within the hierarchy of combat
- Group action in mathematics
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