Vampire (disambiguation)

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A vampire is an undead monster from the legends of various cultures and often featured in fiction.

Vampire may also refer to:

  • Electricity vampire, an electrical appliance that consumes electricity when turned off and supposed to be dead.
  • Energy vampire (psychic vampire), a being said to have the ability to feed off the "life force" of other living creatures
  • Vampire lifestyle, for people who believe themselves to be vampires, or who like pretending to be vampires for fun
  • Vampire bat, flying animals that feed on blood
  • Vampire tap, a device for physically connecting a station to a network that uses 10BASE-5 cabling
  • Vampire number, a mathematical concept
  • Vampire theorem prover, an automated theorem prover
  • a slang term for a seductive girl, or woman
  • Vampire (car), current holder of the British Land Speed Record

[edit] Armed forces

  • de Havilland Vampire, the second jet engined aircraft commissioned into the Royal Air Force during World War II
  • HMS Vampire (disambiguation), naval ships from the United Kingdom or Australia
  • Vampire was the slang name for the Australian field base hospital in the Vietnam War.

[edit] Books and plays

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[edit] Games

In games set in the universe created by White Wolf Game Studio:

[edit] Vampirism

May refer to:

  • A disease in folklore that turns people into Vampires
  • A non-clynical name given to an Iron Deficiency because some of the symptoms the disease resemble a that of a vampire.
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