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Flash may refer to:

Locations:

• Flash, Staffordshire, reputedly the highest village in England
• Pennington Flash Country Park, a renowned birdwatching area in North West England

People:

• Dwyane Wade, an NBA basketball player

Fictional characters:

• Flash (comics), any of a number of comic book superheroes, who share the ability to run at superhuman speed
• Flash Gordon, a comic hero and space traveller
• Flash Thompson, classmate of Peter Parker (Spider-Man)
• Flash (G.I. Joe), a character from the G.I. Joe universe

Technology:

• Adobe Flash, a program that lets users create vector-based animation
• Flash memory, a form of rewritable computer memory that holds its content independent of its power supply
• FLASH MRI, Fast Low Angle Shot Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Flash (photography), bright, transient illumination in order to photograph in low light conditions
• Flash lamp, strobe light
• Flash-OFDM, a digital multi-carrier modulation scheme
• M202A1 FLASH, a US-made thermobaric rocket launcher
• USB flash drive, a flash memory data storage device
• Molding flash, excess material which must be removed from a molded component
• Muzzle flash, light emitted when a gun is fired

Popular culture:

• Flash (band), formed by former Yes guitarist Peter Banks and vocalist Colin Carter in 1972
• Flash (1997 film), a Wonderful World of Disney movie starring Lucas Black
• Flash (juggling), the throwing and catching of a number of props when each prop is caught only once
• "Flash" (song), a song by Queen about Flash Gordon
• Flash (rock climbing), indicates the climber climbed the route without falling on the first attempt and without having watched another climb the route or obtaining tips
• Flash (album), a 2005 album from Japanese electronic musician Towa Tei
• Flash (tattoo), a generic (non-custom) tattoo art form
• Streaking, the practice of running around in public places nude
• Indecent exposure, also known as "flashing", to expose one's nude body in public at another unsuspecting person
• Flash, the British brand name of the P&G product Mr. Clean

• Flashing (Cell Phones)
• Flashback
• Flash blindness
• Flash point, the lowest temperature at which a substance can form an ignitable mix with air
• Flash mob, a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual or notable, and then disperse

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