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Epic

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Epic commonly refers to:

  • Epic poetry, a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation
  • Epic film, a genre of film with heroic elements

Epic or EPIC may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Epic (1984 film)
  • Epic (2013 film)

Gaming

  • Epic (game), a series of wargames
  • Epic (video game), a 1992 video game
  • Epic: Battle for Moonhaven (2013), a video game by Gameloft based on the film Epic (2013)
  • Epic Card Game, a strategy card game released in 2015 by White Wizard Games
  • Epic Games, a video game development company

Literature

  • Epic (Kostick novel), a 2004 novel by Conor Kostick
  • Epic Illustrated, a 1980s anthology series published by Marvel Comics

Music

Albums

  • Epic (Blood on the Dance Floor album), 2011
  • Epic (Borknagar album), 2004
  • Epic (R. Kelly album), 2010
  • Epic (Sharon Van Etten album), 2010
  • Epic (Tang Dynasty album), 1998

Songs

  • "Epic" (Faith No More song), 1990
  • "Epic" (Sandro Silva & Quintino song), 2011

Genres

  • Epic fantasy, a subgenre of fantasy literature
  • Epic trance, a subgenre of trance music

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Epic TV, an Indian Hindi-language TV channel
  • Epic Comics, an imprint of Marvel Comics
  • Epic Records, a record label subsidiary of Sony
  • Epics (company), a Japanese video game developer

Brands and enterprises

  • epic, a telecommunications company owned by Monaco Telecom
    • epic Cyprus, a telecommunications provider in Cyprus, formerly MTN Cyprus
    • epic (Malta), a telecommunications provider in Malta, formerly Vodafone Malta
  • Epic Aircraft, an aircraft manufacturer in Bend, Oregon
  • Epic Pass, a ski/snowboard multi-resort and season pass program offered by Vail Resorts
  • Epic Systems, a healthcare software company in Verona, Wisconsin
  • Red Epic, a camera produced by Red Digital Cinema Camera Company

Organizations

  • Education for Peace in Iraq Center, a charitable organization located in Washington DC
  • El Paso Intelligence Center
  • Electors Photo Identity Card, see Voter ID (India)
  • Electronic Privacy Information Center, an independent non-profit research center
  • End Poverty in California movement, a movement led by Upton Sinclair
  • Établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial, a type of public-sector body in France and other countries
  • European Photonics Industry Consortium, serving the photonics community from a base in Paris, France

Places

  • Epic (skyscraper), an urban residential skyscraper in Downtown Miami completed in 2008
  • East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC Masjid), a Mosque located in Plano, Texas
  • Eastside Preparatory Impact Center, a building at Eastside Preparatory School focused on sustainability
  • Energy Production and Infrastructure Center, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • Exhibition Park in Canberra, a large showground and multi-building venue in Australia

Technology

  • EPIC (form factor), a single board computer form factor based on the PC/104
    • EPIC Express, a single board computer form factor based on the PC/104
  • Epic (web browser)
  • Epic, a large user story in software development and product management
  • Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera, an earth-facing camera in the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite
  • Electromagnetic Personal Interdiction Control
  • Embedded Programmable Interrupt Controller
  • EPICS, a software environment for distributed control systems
  • Evolutionary Process for Integrating COTS-Based Systems
  • Explicitly parallel instruction computing, a CPU architecture design philosophy based on VLIW, used in Itanium CPUs

Other uses

See also

  • EPCI, acronym for Engineering, Procurement, Installation & Commissioning, a type of contract in construction industries
  • Eipic (disambiguation)
  • Epica (disambiguation)
  • Epix (disambiguation)
  • Epoch (disambiguation)
  • The Epic (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Epic
  • All pages with titles containing Epic
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