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Sonic

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Sonic or Sonics may refer to:

Companies

  • Sonic Drive-In, an American drive-in fast-food restaurant chain
  • Sonic (ISP), an Internet provider and CLEC, serving more than 100 California communities
  • Sonic Foundry, a computer software company which develops programs for editing audio and video
  • Sonic Healthcare, a company that provides laboratory pathology and radiology services
  • Sonic Solutions, a company operating in digital-media markets
  • Sonic Team, a developer of video games
  • SONIC, a brand name of Sega, S.A. SONIC

Entertainment

  • Sonic the Hedgehog, a Sega video game franchise
    • Sonic the Hedgehog (character), the titular character of the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise started in 1991
    • Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game), the first video game in the franchise. It was made for the sega genesis.
    • Sonic the Hedgehog (film), the 2020 film based on the franchise
  • Sonic screwdriver, a fictional tool in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who
  • Nickelodeon Sonic, an Indian children's television channel

Music

  • The Sonics, an American band
  • CHDI-FM, a radio station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, named SONiC 102.9
  • CKKS-FM, a radio station in Chilliwack/Abbotsford/Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Science and technology

  • Sonics, a branch of acoustics
  • Theory of sonics, a branch of continuum mechanics
  • Sonic boom, an audible component of a shock wave in air
  • Supersonic speed
  • Hypersonic speed
  • Sonic hedgehog, a gene and protein named after Sonic the Hedgehog
  • SONIC (Ethernet controller), a 10 Mbit/s ethernet controller
  • SONiC (operating system), free and open source network operating system developed by Microsoft
  • SonicStage, a computer program

Sports

  • Seattle SuperSonics, a National Basketball Association team, relocated to Oklahoma as the Thunder
  • Sonic Motor Racing Services, an Australian motor racing team

Vehicles

  • Sonic (train), the name of a Japanese express train
  • Chevrolet Sonic, the North American successor to the Chevrolet Aveo
  • Honda Sonic, an underbone motorcycle
  • Moyes Sonic, an Australian hang glider design
  • Sonic 23, a Canadian sailboat design
  • Sonic Spinball, a rollercoaster

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Sonic
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