Damage (disambiguation)
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Ordinary English usage
In ordinary English usage, damage is physical harm to something. Damages is not the simple plural of damage; an event causing damage to many things is said to cause much damage, not many damages; and it may cause damage, not damages, to a certain monetary value. Damages is a sum of money awarded by a court of law.
Examples of use of damage include:
- Fire damage, damage done by fire
- Property damage, damage to public or private property
- Radiation damage, damage or injury due to ionizing radiation
- Water damage, damage done by water to materials not resistant to the effect of water
- Some forms of harm in medicine caused by damage to particular organs or tissues:
Damage may also refer to:
Film and television
- Damage, a 1992 film by Louis Malle
- Damage (2009), a film by Jeff King, starring Stone Cold Steve Austin
- "Damage" (Angel), a 2004 episode of Angel
- "Damage" (Star Trek: Enterprise), a 2004 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
Gaming
- Damage Incorporated, a computer game for Mac and Windows made by Paranoid Productions in 1998
- Damage over time, a game design concept
- Quad damage, a powerup in the first-person shooter computer game series Quake
- Splash damage, a term used in several types of games
Law
- Institutional damage, unintended consequences to an individual resulting from interaction with an institution
Literature
- Damage (comics), a comic book character from DC Comics
- Damage (fictional game), a card game described in the science fiction novel Consider Phlebas
- Damage (novel), a 1991 novel by Josephine Hart
Music
- Damage (band), a New York hardcore band, active 1983-1988
- Damage (British band), a British R&B boy band who achieved late success in the 1990s with ten hit singles and four Top Tens
- "Damage" (single), a free download single released by contemporary rock band The Cooper Temple Clause
- Damage: Live, a 1994/2001 album by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp
- Damage (album), a 2007 album by Kosheen
- Damage (Blues Explosion album), a 2004 album by Blues Explosion
- Damage 381, an album by Extreme Noise Terror
- The Damage, a collection of Ludus songs culled from the Manchester post-punk group's albums, singles, b-sides, and live recordings
Medicine
- Somatic damage, a disease
Other
- Hydrogen damage, the generic name given to a large number of metal degradation processes due to interaction with hydrogen