Flash

Flash may refer to:

• Lightning, a natural phenomenon

In technology:

• Flash (photography), instantaneous illumination for picture taking
• Flashtube or flashlamp, a lamp designed to produce intense white light for very short durations
• Adobe Flash, (previously called Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash), multimedia software
• Flash Video, a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player
• Hook flash, a telephone function
• FLASH, acronym for Free Electron LASer of Hamburg
• Flash memory, a form of non-volatile computer memory
• USB flash drive, a storage device
• FLASH MRI, a basic measuring principle for rapid magnetic resonance imaging
• Flash (manufacturing), an excess material attached to a molded product along a parting line
• Flash evaporation, causing evaporation by lowering a fluid's pressure below its vapour pressure

In media:

• Flash (comics), any of multiple speedy comics superheroes
• Flash (G.I. Joe), a character in G.I. Joe media
• "Flash" (song), by Queen
• Flash Gordon, the hero of a science fiction comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond
• Flash Thompson, a Marvel comic book character
• Flash (Towa Tei album), by Towa Tei
• Flash (Jeff Beck album), by Jeff Beck
• Flash (Moving Sidewalks album)
• "Flash" (Stéphanie song), by Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
• Flash (band), a progressive rock group
• Flash (1997 film), an American television film
• Flash (2004 film), an American film starring Amanda Loncar
• Flash (2007 film), a Malayalam film
• Flash (Fictional Dog), Sheriff Rosco's dog on The Dukes of Hazzard
• Flash (Chuck), what Chuck does in the TV series Chuck
• Flash (EP), Crystal Kay's second extended play, and her first release in 2010
• Flash (novel), a science fiction novel by L. E. Modesitt published in 2004.

In military use:

• Muzzle flash, the visible light of the muzzle blast when a firearm is discharged
• Flash burn
• Flash protection
• M202A1 FLASH, a rocket launcher

In other uses:

• Flash, Staffordshire, a location in England
• Teen Patti, also known as Flash, a 3-Cards poker style game, popular in South Asia
• Utah Flash, an NBA Development League team
• Dwyane Wade,also known as "Flash", basketball player
• Gabriel Elorde, also known as "Flash", Filipino professional boxer
• Lee Young-Ho, also known as "Flash", a professional Starcraft player in South Korea
• Flash (juggling), a type of throwing and catching
• Flash (tattoo), a source pattern for body art
• Flash (cleaning product), the UK name of Mr. Clean, produced by Procter & Gamble
• Flash Airlines, a private charter airline operating out of Cairo, Egypt
• Grandmaster Flash (born 1958), an American hip hop musician and DJ
• DJ Flash (born 1957), an American DJ

See also

• The Flash (TV series)
• Flashing (disambiguation)
• Flashlight (disambiguation)
• Pennington Flash Country Park
• Flash mob, a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse
• Flash animation, created using Adobe Flash or similar animation software
• Flash fiction, fiction of extreme brevity
• Flash paper (disambiguation)
• Exhibitionism, behavior by a person that involves the exposure of private parts of their body to another person
• Buffalo Flash, American women’s soccer franchise
• Sandbach Flashes, a wetland area of salt-subsidence flashes