Bubble

Bubble or Bubbles may refer to:

Physical bubbles

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

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

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
• Stellar wind bubble, a large cavity in the interstellar medium created by a star's energy
• Superbubble, a large structure created by multiple gases

Economics

• Economic bubble, a situation where market prices are unsustainable
  • Dot-com bubble, a specific economic bubble in the 1990s
  • Real Estate/Housing bubble, economic bubble involving unsustainably valued property
  • Stock market bubble, an economic bubble involving over-valued stock
  • Tulip bubble, an economic bubble in the 1630s and a metaphor for other economic bubbles

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 the 2003 film Finding Nemo

Music

• "Bubbles" (Biffy Clyro song), a 2009 song by Biffy Clyro
• "Bubbles", a song by System of a Down from Steal This Album!
• Bubbles, a record label owned by Erlend Øye and Marcin Oz of The Whitest Boy Alive

Television

• The Bubble (UK TV series), a BBC comedy programme hosted by David Mitchell
• Bubble, a character in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous
• Bubbles, a character in the animated TV series Jabberjaw
• Bubbles (The Powerpuff Girls), a character in 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 season 1 and Charm School 3
• Dirty Bubble, one of mermaid man's enemies in SpongeBob SquarePants

Video games

• Bubble Ghost (video game)
• Bubbles (video game)
• The main character in the video game Clu Clu Land
• Bubble, an enemy in The Legend of Zelda series

People and animals

• Bubble Boy (disambiguation), (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 (1933–1992), an English socialite and actress
• William Milbourne James (1881–1974), the child model for the painting and soap advertisement Bubbles
• Beverly Sills (1929–2007), opera singer

Other

• Bubble (computing), a delay in pipeline
• Champagne (wine), sparkling wine or Champagne, colloquially known as bubbles
• 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
• Carbonation, the process of adding bubbles to soft drinks
• Westminster Bubble, a term used to describe isolation among United Kingdom government employees
• Bubble, the nickname for the helmet logo of the Detroit Lions
• Bubble, a symbol used in logic gate diagrams
• Bubble, a term used in poker tournaments
• Bubble, a term used in selecting the field for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship or NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
• Bubble, a term used to describe interpersonal space

See also

• All pages beginning with "Bubble"
• All pages with titles containing "Bubble"
• Bulla (disambiguation), Latin for "bubble"
• Bub (disambiguation)
• Bubb (disambiguation)