Flash

Flash may refer to:

Media

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

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

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

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

Music

Band

• Flash (band), a 1970s progressive rock group

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

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

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

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

Places

• Flash, Staffordshire, England
• Pennington Flash Country Park, England
• The Flash (lake), a lake in Wales

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

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

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

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

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"