Avalanche (disambiguation)

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An avalanche is a cascade of snow down a slope (for rocks or debris see rockslide).

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, or the title song
Avalanche (SVS album), 1992
Avalanche (British India album), 2010
Avalanche (Mountain album), 1974
Avalanche (Leah Andreone album), 2009
Avalanche (Quadron album), 2013
"Avalanche" (song), a song on Leonard Cohen's 1971 album Songs of Love and Hate
The Avalanches, an Australian electronic music group
The Avalanche (album), a 2006 album by Sufjan Stevens
"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 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
"Avalanche" a song on Nick Jonas' 2014 album Nick Jonas featuring Demi Lovato
"Avalanche", a song on Epica's 2012 album Requiem for the Indifferent
"Avalanche", a song on Arch Enemy's 2014 album War Eternal

Avalanche (video game), 1978 arcade game released by Atari
Avalanche (drinking game)
Avalanche (marble game), an mechanical abstract strategy game with marbles.
Avalanche chess, chess variant
Avalanche joseki, sequence in the game of Go
Avalanche Press, producer of wargame and roleplaying game products
Avalanche Software, American video game developer
Avalanche Studios, Swedish video game developer
Avalanche, fictional organization in a video game, see characters of the Final Fantasy VII series
Avalanche, map on Gears of War 2
Avalanche, map on Halo 3

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 effect, a concept in cryptography
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

Avalanche (1923 film), a 1923 Austrian film
Avalanche (1928 film), a 1928 American silent western film
Avalanche (1946 film) a 1946 American film directed by Irving Allen
Avalanche (1951 film) a 1951 French film
The Avalanche (1946 film), a 1946 Czech film
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
Avalanche (1999 film), (Also known as Escape from Alaska), a 1999 American film directed by Steve Kroschel
The Avalanche (film), a 1919 American film
"Avalanche" (Captain Scarlet), a 1967 episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

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

Avalanche (Kings Dominion), a roller coaster at Kings Dominion
Avalanche (Pleasure Beach Blackpool), a roller coaster at Pleasure Beach Blackpool

Avalanche (comics), a Marvel Comics character
Snowball effect, a metaphorical term for a process of gradual growth
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