Flash
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[edit] Media
[edit] Books
- Flash (novel), a 2004 science fiction novel by L. E. Modesitt
- Flash fiction, fiction of extreme brevity
- The Flash (comic book), ongoing comic book featuring the titular DC Comics hero
[edit] Characters
- Flash (comics), several speedy DC Comics superheroes
- Flash (Jay Garrick), the first superhero
- Flash (Barry Allen), the second superhero
- Flash (Wally West), the first Kid Flash
- Flash (Bart Allen), the second Kid Flash
- Flash (Dukes of Hazzard), Sheriff Rosco's dog in The Dukes of Hazzard
- Flash (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Flash Gordon, the titular hero of science fiction comic strip
- Flash Thompson, a Marvel comic book character
[edit] Film and television
- Flash (1997 film), a 1997 Disney Channel television film
- Flash (2004 film), a 2004 American film starring Amanda Loncar
- Flash (2007 film), a 2007 Malayalam suspense thriller film
- Flash (Chuck), how Chuck retrieves data in the TV series Chuck
- The Flash (TV series), a 1990 American superhero series
[edit] Game
- Flash (pinball), a 1979 Williams pinball game designed by Steve Ritchie
- Teen patti or Flash, a three-card poker-style game, popular in South Asia
[edit] Music
[edit] Band
- Flash (band), a 1970s progressive rock group
[edit] Albums and songs
Chronological
- Flash (Moving Sidewalks album), 1968
- Flash (Electric Food album), 1970
- "Flash" (song), a song on Queen's 1980 album Flash Gordon
- Flash (Jeff Beck album), 1985
- "Flash" (Stéphanie song), a song Princess Stéphanie of Monaco's 1986 album Besoin
- Flash (Towa Tei album), 2005
- Flash (EP), a 2010 extended play album by Crystal Kay
[edit] Military
- M202 FLASH, a rocket launcher
- Muzzle flash, the visible light of the muzzle blast when a firearm is discharged
- Operation Flash, a May 1995 Croatian Army offensive in Western Slavonia
- Tactical recognition flash, a coloured patch worn on the arm of combat clothing to distinguish their Regiment or Corps
[edit] Organizations
- Flash Airlines, a private charter airline operating out of Cairo, Egypt
- Flash Engineering, a Swedish motorsports team
- Utah Flash, an NBA Development League team
- Western New York Flash, American women’s soccer franchise
[edit] People
- Flash (wrestler) (born 1957), masked professional wrestler
- Adam Flash (born 1971), American professional wrestler
- DJ Flash (born 1957), American DJ
- Dwyane Wade (born 1982), basketball player
- Flash Hollett (1912–1999), Canadian ice hockey defenceman
- Gabriel Elorde (1935–1985), Filipino professional boxer
- Grandmaster Flash (born 1958), American hip hop musician and DJ
- Lee Young-Ho (born 1992), South Korean professional Starcraft player also known as Flash
[edit] Places
- Flash, Staffordshire, England
- Pennington Flash Country Park, England
- The Flash (lake), a lake in Wales
[edit] Science
- Arc flash, a type of electrical explosion that results from a low impedance connection to ground or another voltage phase in an electrical system
- FLASH, Free Electron LASer in Hamburg
- Flash boiler, a type of water-tube boiler
- Flash evaporation, causing evaporation by lowering a fluid's pressure below its vapour pressure
- FLASH MRI, a basic measuring principle for rapid magnetic resonance imaging
- Lightning, a natural phenomenon
- Terrestrial gamma-ray flash, bursts of gamma rays in the Earth's atmosphere
- X-ray flash, the emission of characteristic "secondary" (or fluorescent) X-rays from a material that has been excited by bombarding with high-energy X-rays
[edit] Technology
- Flash (manufacturing), an excess material attached to a moulded product along a parting line
- Flash (photography), instantaneous illumination for picture taking
- Argon flash, a single-use source of very short and extremely bright flashes of light
- Flash release (disambiguation)
- Flashtube or flashlamp, a lamp for producing brief intense light
- Hook flash, a telephone function
- Multi-stage flash, a water desalination process
- Power flash, a flash of light caused by arcing electricity from damaged electrical equipment
[edit] Computing
- Adobe Flash (formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash), multimedia platform software
- Adobe Flash Player, web browser software viewer for Flash animation and video
- Flash animation, animation created using Adobe Flash or similar
- Flash Video, a container file format used for Internet video delivery
- Flash memory, a form of non-volatile computer memory
- USB flash drive, a storage device
- Flash!, the bundled graphics package for the SAM Coupé
[edit] Other uses
- Flash (cleaning product), the UK name of Mr. Clean, produced by Procter & Gamble
- Flash (juggling), a type of throwing and catching
- Flash (tattoo), a source pattern for body art
- Exhibitionism, exposure of a person's private parts to another person
- Eyebrow flash, a universally recognized unconscious social signal, wherein a person, wishing to approach another whom they recognize and are preparing for social contact, raises their eyebrows for approximately one-sixth of a second
- Flash fire, a sudden, intense fire
- Flash trading, a type of stock market order
- Flashfire, a science fiction novel by David Sherman and Dan Cragg published in 2006
- Gainer flash, a move frequently used in the martial arts/gymnastics sport of tricking. The move consists of the performer doing a gainer while executing a flashkick
- Hot flash, a symptom of the changing hormone levels that are considered to be characteristic of menopause
[edit] See also
- Flash burn (disambiguation)
- Flash paper (disambiguation)
- Flashing (disambiguation)
- Flashlight (disambiguation)
- Flashpoint (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Flash"
- All pages with titles containing "Flash"
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