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A butterfly is a flying insect.

Contents

• Companies
• Film and television
• Film
• Television
• Games and sports
• Literature
• Music
• Albums
• Songs
• People
• Places
• Technology
• Other uses
• See also

Butterfly may also refer to:

Companies

• Butterfly (company), an American film production company 1917–1918
• Butterfly (brand), used by Japanese table tennis apparel and equipment supplier Tamasu

Film and television

Games and sports

• Butterfly (game), a two-player abstract strategy game
• Butterfly stroke, a swimming technique
• Butterfly style, a goaltending technique in ice hockey

Literature

• Butterfly (comics), Layla Miller, a Marvel Comics character
• Butterfly (novel), a 2009 novel by Sonya Hartnett
• Butterfly, a 1989 novel by Kathryn Harvey (Barbara Wood)
• The Butterfly (novel), a 1947 novel by James M. Cain
• The Butterfly, a 2000 children's book by Patricia Polacco

Music

• Butterfly Recordings, three American record labels
• Étude Op. 25, No. 9 (Chopin) or "Butterfly"
• The Butterflys, a 1960s-era group signed to Red Bird Records

People

• Julia Butterfly Hill (born 1974), American activist and environmentalist
• Butterfly Boucher (born 1979), Australian singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer
• Butterfly McQueen (1911–1995), American actress

Places

• Butterfly (constituency), Tuen Mun District, Hong Kong
• Butterfly, Kentucky, US

Technology

• BBN Butterfly, a 1980s massively parallel computer
• Butterfly (dinghy), a boat
• Butterfly (lighting), a cinema lighting methodology
• Butterfly (print head), a part of the print head of line-oriented printers
• Butterfly Bomb, a German cluster bomb in World War II
• Butterfly joint in woodworking
• Butterfly knife, a Filipino-origin knife
• Butterfly loop, a mid-line knot
• Butterfly valve, a mechanic component of a carburetor
• Butterfly vibrator, a type of strap-on clitoral vibrator
• GibboGear Butterfly, an ultralite trike aircraft
• Butterfly needle, winged infusion set, in medical practice
• Butterfly, a roller coaster element
• Butterfly, the code-name and common name of the IBM ThinkPad 701 keyboard
• Butterfly, a typeface by Wagner & Schmidt, licensed by Schriftguss AG

Other uses

• Butterfly (options), a financial trading strategy
• Butterfly dance, a dance move
• Butterfly stop, a railway station in Hong Kong
• Butterflying, a butchery technique

See also

• Butterflies (disambiguation)
• Butterfill, a surname
• "Butterfly, Butterfly (The Last Hurrah)", a 2010 song by a-ha
• Butterfly diagram, used to illustrate fast Fourier transforms
• Butterfly effect, the idea that small causes can have large effects
• Butterfly Koi, an ornamental fish
• Falter (German for Butterfly), a magazine
• Madame Butterfly (disambiguation)

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