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
Gaming
- 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
Sports
- Avalanche, a professional wrestling character portrayed by John Tenta
- 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 (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
Film and television
- 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
Places
- Avalanche, Wisconsin, unincorporated community, United States
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
Roller coasters
- Avalanche (Kings Dominion), a roller coaster at Kings Dominion
- Avalanche (Pleasure Beach Blackpool), a roller coaster at Pleasure Beach Blackpool
Other meanings
- 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
See also
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