Deluge
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A deluge is a large downpour of rain, or a flood.
- Prehistoric and mythical floods
- Noah's Flood, a narrative described in the Book of Genesis; see Noah and Noah's Ark
- Deluge (mythology), mythic floods in general, involving Gilgamesh, and others
- Deluge (prehistoric), prehistoric great floods, some of which may have inspired the mythic floods above
- Polish history and culture
- Deluge (history), the Swedish occupation of Poland (1655-1660)
- Potop, the novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz, about this occupation
- Potop, the film by Jerzy Hoffman, based on Sienkiewicz
- Metaphorical use
The noun deluge or the verb to deluge are often used metaphorically to describe inundation:
- a 'deluge' of applications
- We've been 'deluged' with complaints.
In the 1959 Walter M. Miller, Jr. novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, a devastating nuclear war is subsequently referred to as the "Flame Deluge", also given in Latin as "Diluvium Ignis".
- Other
- Deluge (movie) by Felix E. Feist
- Deluge M.A.S.H. (TV series) episode (season 4)
- Deluge, a tool to program nodes of a Wireless Sensor Network running the TinyOS operating system in an infectious manner; see Delouge (TinyOS)
- Before The Deluge, a Jackson Browne song from Late for the Sky
- Deluge (BitTorrent client) a BitTorrent client for Linux.
- Deluge system: Deluge systems are used for cooling of constructions during a fire situation [1]
- "Deluge Songs", the latest album by obscure Scottish band "Terra Diablo".
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