Avalanche (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Music 2 Gaming 3 Sports 4 Technology 5 Film and television 6 Other meanings 7 See also

An avalanche is a cascade of snow down a slope.

Avalanche may also refer to:

[edit] Music

• Avalanche (band), a 1980s Norwegian disco group
• Avalanche (Echo & the Bunnymen EP)
• Avalanche (Thea Gilmore album)
• Avalanche (Matthew Good album)
• Avalanche (Some Velvet Sidewalk album)
• "Avalanche" (song), by Leonard Cohen
• The Avalanches, an Australian electronic music group
• The Avalanche, an album by Sufjan Stevens
• Doktor Avalanche, a group of drum machines used by the group Sisters of Mercy
• "Avalanche," a song by Ryan Adams on the album Love Is Hell
• "Avalanche," a song by Wintersleep on the album Wintersleep
• "Avalanche", a song by David Cook from his David Cook (album)
• "Avalanche", a song by Marié Digby from her album Breathing Underwater
• "Avalanche", a song by Youngblood Brass Band

[edit] Gaming

• Avalanche (arcade game)
• Avalanche (drinking game)
• Avalanche chess, a chess variant
• Avalanche joseki, a sequence in the game of Go
• Avalanche Press, a producer of wargame and roleplaying game products
• Avalanche Software, an American video game developer
• Avalanche Studios, a Swedish video game developer
• 1080° Avalanche, a Nintendo GameCube game
• AVALANCHE , an organization in the game Final Fantasy VII
• Avalanche, a map on Gears of War 2
• Avalanche, a map on Halo 3

[edit] Sports

• Avalanche (wrestler)
• Adelaide Avalanche, an Australia hockey team
• Alaska Avalanche, an Alaska hockey team
• Colorado Avalanche, an NHL (hockey) team based in Denver, Colorado
• Denver Avalanche, a Colorado soccer team
• Hamilton Avalanche, a Canada soccer team
• Salem Avalanche, a Virginia baseball team
• Quebec Avalanche, a Canada hockey team

[edit] Technology

• Avalanche (P2P), a proposed peer-to-peer network
• Avalanche Corporate Technology, a technology cooperative
• Avalanche diode
• Avalanche breakdown, a form of electric current multiplication
• Electron avalanche, a process similar to an avalanche breakdown, occurring without connection between two electrodes

[edit] Film and television

• Avalanche, a 1978 American disaster film with Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow.
• Avalanche, a 1923 Austrian film
• "Avalanche" (Captain Scarlet episode), an episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
• Avalanche, a 1952 Japanese film directed by Kaneto Shindō

[edit] Other meanings

• Avalanche (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Avalanche (roller coaster)
• Snowball effect, a metaphorical term for a process of gradual growth
• Chevrolet Avalanche, a sport utility truck
• HSV Avalanche SUV, a dual-cab utility vehicle
• Avalanche effect, a concept in cryptography
• Avalanche, a locomotive in the GWR Banking Class
• Avalanche, a children's novel by Anna Rutgers van der Loeff
• Avalanche, a horse in the second book in the Age of Fire series by E. E. Knight.

[edit] See also

• Operation Avalanche (disambiguation)
• Lavalas

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