Butterfly (disambiguation)

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Butterfly or butterflies may refer to:

• Butterfly, a flying insect of the order Lepidoptera

• Butterfly stroke, a swimming stroke
• Butterfly style, a goaltender style in ice hockey
• Butterfly option strategy, a combination option trade
• Butterfly vibrator
• Butterfly sex position
• Butterfly (sailing), a sailing technique
• Butterfly knife, used in certain Filipino martial arts, also known as a Balisong
• Butterfly kick, a technique performed in many martial arts
• The Mirabal sisters, known within their Dominican revolutionary movement as the "Butterflies"
• Butterfly nut, a fastening for use with a bolt
• Butterfly ballot, a type of a ballot that was used in Florida during the 2000 presidential elections
• Butterfly valve, one of the components of a throttle body
• Butterflying, a technique in butchery
• Butterflies in the stomach, a nervous effect

In medicine

• Butterfly needle, a small needle attached to flexible tubing, and is used to collect blood, see venipuncture
• Butterfly tape, thin strips of surgical tape used to hold a gaping wound closed

In science

• Butterfly effect, in chaos theory
• Butterfly curve (algebraic), an algebraic curve of degree six and genus seven
• Butterfly curve (transcendental), a parametric equation discovered by Temple H. Fay
• Butterfly (FFT algorithm), in fast Fourier transforms, mathematics
• Butterfly catastrophe, a singularity of codimension 4, in catastrophe theory

In jewelry

• A style of friction nut pushed on to the back of the stem of a pierced stud earring to prevent it from falling out

In music, film and television

• Butterflies (1953 song), a song recorded by Patti Page
• Butterfly (1957 song), a popular song, charting in versions by Andy Williams and Charlie Gracie
• Butterfly (Kumi Koda song), a 2005 single released by Kumi Koda
• Butterfly (Mariah Carey album), a 1997 album released by Mariah Carey
• Butterfly (Hollies album), a 1967 album released by The Hollies, plus the title track
• Butterfly (Mariah Carey song), a 1997 single released by Mariah Carey
• Butterfly (Kylie Minogue song), a 2001 single released by Kylie Minogue
• Butterfly (Crazy Town song)
• Butterfly (1982 film), United States
• Butterfly (Smile.dk song)
• Butterfly (1999 film), Spain
• Butterfly (2004 film) (蝴蝶), Hong Kong
• The Butterfly Effect, a movie released in 2004 starring Ashton Kutcher
• Butterflies (TV series), UK
• Butterflies (Michael Jackson song), Michael Jackson
• Butterfly, the b-side on Namie Amuro's single ALL FOR YOU
• Butterfly, a b-side by Tori Amos
• Butterfly, a song by Gomez from their album Split the Difference
• Butterfly, a song by Screaming Trees from their 1992 album Sweet Oblivion
• Butterfly, a song by Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
• Butterfly Recordings, one of two record labels set up by Youth

In technology

• Windows Live Butterfly, a group of users selected by the Microsoft Windows Live product team