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An avalanche is a cascade of snow down a slope.

Contents

• Places
• Technology
• Film and television
• Music
• Albums
• Songs
• Gaming
• Sports
• Transportation
• Roller coasters
• Other meanings
• See also

Avalanche may also refer to:

Places

• Avalanche, Wisconsin, unincorporated community, United States
• Avalanche Lake (disambiguation)
• Avalanche Peak (disambiguation)
• Mount Avalanche, a mountain in New Zealand

Technology

• Avalanche (blockchain platform), a decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality.
• 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 and hashing
• 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), 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 and the Mysterons), a 1967 episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
• Avalanche (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Avalanche Releasing and Avalanche Home Entertainment, distribution labels of Cinépix

Music

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

Gaming

• Avalanche (video game), 1978 arcade game released by Atari
• Avalanche (marble game), mechanical abstract strategy game with marbles
• Avalanche: The Salerno Landings , 1976 board wargame
• 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

• Avalanche, a professional wrestling character portrayed by John Tenta
• any move performed normally on the mat but when executed off the top or second rope in pro wrestling
• Adelaide Avalanche, an Australia hockey team
• Alaska Avalanche, a US hockey team
• Colorado Avalanche, a US hockey team
• Denver Avalanche, a US soccer team
• Hamilton Avalanche, a Canada soccer team
• Salem Avalanche, a US baseball team
• Quebec Avalanche, a Canada hockey team

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 from 1846 to 1865
• Avalanche, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive that was built for and run on Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
• Gemballa Avalanche, a high-end automobile

Roller coasters

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

Other meanings

• Avalanche (character), a Marvel Comics character
• Avalanche!, a 1954 children's novel by Anna Rutgers van der Loeff
• Avalanche, a horse in Dragon Avenger, the second book in the Age of Fire series by E. E. Knight
• Avalanche, a 2007 story from the Railway Series book Thomas and Victoria
• Underwater avalanche (or undersea avalanche), synonyms sometimes used for turbidity currents

See also

• Operation Avalanche (disambiguation)
• Lavalas (disambiguation)
• Snowball effect, a metaphorical term for a process of gradual growth

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