Avalanche (disambiguation)

An avalanche is a cascade of snow down a slope.

Avalanche may also refer to:

Music

• Avalanche (band), a 1980s Norwegian disco group
• Avalanche (EP), a 2000 EP by Echo & the Bunnymen
• Avalanche (Thea Gilmore album), 2003
• Avalanche (Matthew Good album), 2003
• Avalanche (SVS album), 1992
• Avalanche (British India album), 2010
• Avalanche (Mountain album), 1974
• Avalanche (Leah Andreone album), 2009
• "Avalanche" (song), a song on Leonard Cohen's 1971 album Songs of Love and Hate
• The Avalanches, an Australian electronic music group
• The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album, a 2006 album by Sufjan Stevens
• Doktor Avalanche, a group of drum machines used by the group The Sisters of Mercy
• "Avalanche," a song on Ryan Adams's 2004 album Love Is Hell
• "Avalanche," a song on Wintersleep's 2003 album Wintersleep
• "Avalanche", a song on David Cook's 2008 album David Cook
• "Avalanche", a song on Marié Digby's 2009 album Breathing Underwater
• "Avalanche", a song by Matthew Good
• "Avalanche", a song on Youngblood Brass Band's 2003 album Center:Level:Roar
• "Avalanche", a song on Manafest's 2010 album The Chase
• "Avalanche", a song on Gigolo Aunts's 1988 album Everybody Happy

Gaming

• Avalanche (video game), a 1978 arcade game released by Atari
• Avalanche (drinking game)
• Avalanche chess, a chess variant
• Avalanche joseki, a sequence in the game of Go
• Avalanche Press, a producer of wargame and roleplaying game products
• Avalanche Software, an American video game developer
• Avalanche Studios, a Swedish video game developer
• 1080° Avalanche, a 2003 Nintendo GameCube game
• AVALANCHE , an organization in the game Final Fantasy VII
• Avalanche, a map on Gears of War 2
• Avalanche, a map on Halo 3

Sports

• Avalanche (wrestler)
• Adelaide Avalanche, an Australia hockey team
• Alaska Avalanche, an Alaska hockey team
• Colorado Avalanche, an NHL (hockey) team based in Denver, Colorado
• Denver Avalanche, a Colorado soccer team
• Hamilton Avalanche, a Canada soccer team
• Salem Avalanche, a Virginia baseball team
• Quebec Avalanche, a Canada hockey team

Technology

• Avalanche (dynamic analysis tool), a program analysis tool for defect detection
• Avalanche (P2P), a proposed peer-to-peer network
• Avalanche (phishing group), a criminal syndicate which performs phishing attacks
• Avalanche breakdown, a form of electric current multiplication
• Avalanche diode
• Avalanche model, a software engineering paradigm
• Avalanche photodiode, a highly sensitive semiconductor device that converts an optical signal into an electrical signal
• Electron avalanche, a process similar to an avalanche breakdown, occurring without connection between two electrodes

Film and television

• Avalanche (1923 film), a 1923 Austrian film
• Avalanche (1946 film) a 1946 PRC film directed by Irving Allen
• Avalanche (1952 film), a 1952 Japanese film directed by Kaneto Shindō
• Avalanche (1978 film), a 1978 American disaster film with Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow
• The Avalanche (film), a 1919 American film
• "Avalanche" (Captain Scarlet), a 1967 episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Transportation

• Chevrolet Avalanche, a sport utility truck
• HSV Avalanche SUV, a dual-cab utility vehicle
• Avalanche, a GWR Banking Class locomotive run by the Great Western Railway (UK)
• Avalanche, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive that was built for and run on Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
• Gemballa Avalanche

Other meanings

• Avalanche (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Avalanche (Kings Dominion), a roller coaster at Kings Dominion
• Avalanche (Pleasure Beach Blackpool), a roller coaster at Pleasure Beach Blackpool
• Avalanche (Amusements of America), a roller coaster owned by Amusements of America
• Snowball effect, a metaphorical term for a process of gradual growth
• Avalanche effect, a concept in cryptography
• Avalanche, a children's novel by Anna Rutgers van der Loeff
• Avalanche, a horse in the second book in the Age of Fire series by E. E. Knight.
• Avalanche (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe

See also

• Operation Avalanche (disambiguation)
• Lavalas (disambiguation)