Bounce

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Bounce may refer to:

• Deflection, particularly of a solid object striking a wall, floor or other surface.

In Entertainment:

• Bounce (album), an album by the rock group Bon Jovi.
• Bounce (film), starring Ben Affleck, released in 2000.
• Bounce (musical), written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, which premiered in 2003.
• Bounce (song), a single by Turkish pop singer Tarkan.
• Bounce, a song by alternative metal band System of a Down from their album Toxicity.
• Bounce (game), a popular mobile game by Nokia.
• Bounce, the name of a multiplayer map for the First Person Shooter PC game, Half-Life.
• Bounce music, a style of hip hop music that originated in New Orleans.

In Sport:

• Bounce, a slang term used by skydivers to describe the act of hitting the ground at terminal velocity.
• Bounce (jump), a type of jump seen in showjumping or eventing.
• Bounce (golf), a term referring to the shape of the head on certain golf clubs.

In Electronics:

• Contact bounce, a common problem with mechanical switches and relays.

In Computing:

• Bounce message, an e-mail message that is returned undelivered.
• Bounce (network), a networking term for masking connections.

In Business and finance:

• Bounce (fabric softener), a U.S. brand of fabric softener sheet produced by Procter & Gamble, which is placed in a clothes dryer.
• Bounce, a term used when a check is returned to a depositing bank because the owner of the account in the issuing bank has insufficient funds to cover the value of the check.