Option

Option may refer to:

Legal rights

• Option (finance), an instrument that conveys the right, but not the obligation, to engage in a future transaction (for example, on some underlying security or on a parcel of real property), or in a futures contract
• Option (law), the legal underpinning of a financial option
• Option contract, a type of legal contract
• Option (filmmaking), a contractual agreement between a film producer and a writer, in which the producer obtains the right to buy a screenplay from the writer before a certain date.

Sport

• Option run, a play in American and Canadian football
• Option offense, an offensive scheme in American football primarily predicated on option runs
• Option (baseball), a type of player transaction

Computing

• Option key, a key on Apple computer keyboards
• Option type, a polymorphic data type in programming languages
• Command-line option, an optional parameter to a command

Publications

• Option (car magazine), a Japanese car magazine
• Option (music magazine), a defunct American music magazine

History

• "The Option", an alternate name for the South Tyrol Option Agreement, a resettlement program of German speakers living in Italy initiated by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini

Entertainment

• OPTION unit, a fictional weapons platform for the Vic Viper in the Gradius series of video games
  • Option (オプション, opushun), a catch-all term for similar satellite weapon units which orbit some sort of main unit, appearing in various Japanese video games
• "Options", a song by Pedro the Lion from his 2007 album Control
• Options (Welcome to Paradox), an episode of Welcome to Paradox
• Options (novel), a novel by Robert Sheckley

Organisations

• Option N.V., a company providing wireless technology solutions