Fall (disambiguation)

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Fall may refer to:

• the season of autumn; in North American English the season is known as fall, while in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries the more common word is autumn
• falling, or free-fall, a condition of acceleration which is due to gravity
• waterfall, a geological formation, more typically referred to as "falls" than simply "fall"
• the height, corresponding to the potential energy, available in a water engineering project, for example to power a waterwheel
• astrological fall, a term for a planet in a form of debilitated essential dignity
• Falling (forestry), various methods employed for cutting down trees; people employed in this practice are known as "fallers"
• a woman's hairpiece with long, free-hanging hair.
• in sailing, a halyard, also known as a "fall", is a rope that straightly "falls" at the mast that hoists and lowers the sail
• the sudden arrival of large numbers of migrating birds on an island or at a coastal headland due to drift migration
• Fall (EP), a 1990 EP by British band Ride
• Falling, a manga of the Japanese author Junji Ito
• Albert B. Fall, a Secretary of the Interior who was involved in the Teapot Dome scandal.
• "Falls", a song by Avail from their 2002 album Front Porch Stories

The Fall may refer to:

• The Fall, a prolific British rock band
• The Fall (book), the first book in The Seventh Tower series
• The Fall (novel), the third novel written by French writer Albert Camus
• The Fall of Man, a Jewish and Christian doctrine of man's rebellion against his creator, God, bringing God's condemnation on himself, as described in the story of Adam and Eve
• The Fall is also used to refer to the sudden devastation of the Eldar race in the Warhammer 40,000 Universe.