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Contents 1 Physical bubbles 2 Arts and literature 3 Astronomy 4 Economics 5 Film 6 Television 7 Video games 8 People and animals 9 Other 10 References

Bubble may refer to:

[edit] Physical bubbles

• Liquid bubble, a globule of one substance encased in another, usually air in a liquid
• Soap bubble, a bubble formed by soapy water
• Antibubble, a droplet of liquid surrounded by a thin film of gas

[edit] Arts and literature

• Bubbles (painting), a painting by Sir John Everett Millais, also used to market Pears soap
• Bubbles Yablonsky, the protagonist in a series of mystery novels
• Speech balloon or speech bubble, a graphic convention used primarily in comics and cartoons

[edit] Astronomy

• Local Bubble, the cavity which contains the Solar System
• Bubble Nebula (NGC 6822), an emission nebula in Barnard's Galaxy
• NGC 7635 (also known as the Bubble Nebula), an emission nebula in the Milky Way galaxy
• Radio Bubble, the spherical-shaped volume over which human radio signals have spread out into outer space since the first half of the 20the century ^[1]
• Stellar wind bubble, a large cavity in the interstellar medium created by a star's energy
• Superbubble, a large structure created by multiple supernovae

[edit] Economics

• Economic bubble, a situation where market prices are unsustainably high
  • Dot-com bubble
  • Real Estate/Housing bubble
  • Stock market bubble
  • Tulip bubble

[edit] Film

• Bubbles, a 1930 short film featuring a pre-stardom Judy Garland
• The Bubble (1966 film), a science fiction film
• Bubble (film), a 2006 improvised thriller directed by Stephen Soderbergh
• The Bubble (2006 film), an Israeli drama about a gay romance
• Bubbles, a character in Finding Nemo

[edit] Television

• Bubble, a character in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous
• Bubbles, a character in the animated TV series Jabberjaw
• Bubbles, a character in the The Powerpuff Girls
• Bubbles (Trailer Park Boys character)
• Bubbles (The Wire), a character from the HBO series The Wire
• Bubbles the Clown, a doll used in the BBC's Test Card F
• Bubbles DeVere, a character in the TV series Little Britain
• Bubbles (The Adventures of Little Carp), an anthropomorphic fish from The Adventures of Little Carp
• Bubbles, a contestant on Real Chance of Love and Charm School 3.

[edit] Video games

• Bubble Bobble
• Bubble Ghost
• Bubbles (video game)
• The main character in the video game Clu Clu Land
• Bubble, an enemy in The Legend of Zelda series
• Bubble (console), a DVD games console
• Bubbling an enemy in the online game 'Maplestory'

[edit] People and animals

• Bubble Boy, (or 'boy in the bubble'), colloquialism used to describe a person who must live in a sterile environment for medical reasons
• Bubble Eye, a variety of goldfish
• Bubbles (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee who lived with Michael Jackson
• Pamela Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere, an English socialite and actress
• William Milbourne James, the child model for the painting and soap advertisement Bubbles
• Beverly Sills, opera singer
• The Ghost of the Bubble Boy

[edit] Other

• Bubble (computing), a delay in pipeline
• Bubbles (browser), an application platform and site-specific browser
• Mr. Bubbles (band), a Spanish trash rock group
• Bubbles (band), a Swedish girl group
• Bubble Act, an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain requiring all joint-stock companies to have a Royal Charter
• Bubble and squeak, a traditional English vegetable dish; usually based on mashed potatoes and "left over" vegetables
• Bubble chamber, a particle detector in physics
• Bubble Wrap, a packaging material
• Hi-Riser (automobile), a sedan customized by increasing the ground clearance and adding large-diameter wheels
• Westminster Bubble, a term used to describe isolation among United Kingdom government employees
• a slang term for the breasts
• A symbol used in logic gate diagrams
• A term used in poker tournaments for the last finishing position before entering the payout structure
• A term used in selecting the field for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship or NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship

[edit] References

1. ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_9_110/ai_80061812/

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