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Avalanche (disambiguation)

An avalanche is a cascade of snow down a slope.

Avalanche may also refer to:

Places

  • Avalanche, Wisconsin, unincorporated community, United States

Film and television

  • Avalanche (1923 film), an Austrian film
  • Avalanche (1928 film), an American silent western film
  • Avalanche (1946 film), an American film directed by Irving Allen
  • Avalanche (1951 film), a French film
  • Avalanche (1952 film), a Japanese film directed by Kaneto Shindō
  • Avalanche (1969 film), a British film
  • Avalanche (1978 film), an American disaster film with Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow
  • Avalanche (1994 film), a Canadian film
  • Avalanche (1999 film), an American film directed by Steve Kroschel
  • The Avalanche (1919 film), an American film
  • The Avalanche (1946 film), a Czech film
  • "Avalanche" (Captain Scarlet), a 1967 episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
  • Avalanche (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe

Music

  • Avalanche (band), a 1980s Norwegian disco group
  • The Avalanches, an Australian electronic music group

Albums

  • Avalanche (EP), a 2000 EP by Echo & the Bunnymen
  • Avalanche (Thea Gilmore album), 2003
  • Avalanche (Matthew Good album), 2003, or the title song
  • Avalanche (Some Velvet Sidewalk album), 1992
  • Avalanche (British India album), 2010
  • Avalanche (Mountain album), 1974
  • Avalanche (Leah Andreone album), 2009
  • The Avalanche (album), a 2006 album by Sufjan Stevens
  • Avalanche (Quadron album), 2013

Songs

  • "Avalanche" (Leonard Cohen song), a song on Leonard Cohen's 1971 album Songs of Love and Hate
  • "Avalanche" (Bring Me the Horizon song), a song on Bring Me the Horizon's 2015 album That's the Spirit
  • "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), 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 Final Fantasy VII; see Characters of the Final Fantasy VII series

Sports

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 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

Transportation

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
  • 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, a 2007 story from the Railyway Series book Thomas and Victoria

See also

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