Butterfly (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Science 2 Music 2.1 Albums 2.2 Songs 2.3 Other 3 Film and television

A butterfly is a flying insect.

Butterfly or butterflies may also refer to:

• Butterfly (dinghy), a popular one-design single-handed sailboat
• Butterfly (options), a combination option trade strategy
• Butterfly ballot, a type of a ballot that was used in Florida during the 2000 presidential elections
• Butterfly chair, also known as BKF chair
• Butterfly kick, a technique performed in many martial arts
• Butterfly knife, used in certain Filipino martial arts, also known as a Balisong
• Butterfly needle, a small needle attached to flexible tubing, and is used to collect blood
• Butterfly stroke, a swimming stroke
• Butterfly style, a goaltender style in ice hockey
• Butterfly valve, one of the components of a throttle body
• Butterfly vibrator, a sex toy
• Butterflies in the stomach, a nervous effect
• Butterflying, a technique in butchery
• The Mirabal sisters, known within their Dominican revolutionary movement as the "Butterflies"
• Windows Live Butterfly, a group of users selected by the Microsoft Windows Live product team
• Butterfly (corporation), a sporting goods manufacturer specializing in table tennis equipment (de) (fr)

[edit] Science

• Butterfly (FFT algorithm), in fast Fourier transforms, mathematics
• Butterfly catastrophe, a singularity of codimension 4
• Butterfly curve (algebraic), an algebraic curve of degree six and genus seven
• Butterfly curve (transcendental), a parametric equation discovered by Temple H. Fay
• Butterfly diagram, a portion of a fast Fourier computation that combines the results of smaller discrete Fourier transforms
• Butterfly effect, in chaos theory
• Butterfly theorem in elementary geometry

[edit] Music

[edit] Albums

• Butterfly (Hollies album), a 1967 rock/pop album by The Hollies
• Butterfly (Mariah Carey album), a 1997 pop/R&B album by Mariah Carey

[edit] Songs

• "Butterfly" (1957 song), charting in versions by Andy Williams and Charlie Gracie
• "Butterfly" (Mariah Carey song), a 1997 song by Mariah Carey from the album Butterfly
• "Butterfly" (Crazy Town song), a 2001 song by Crazy Town from the album The Gift of Game
• "Butterfly" (Danyel Gerard song), a late 1960s song by Danyel Gérard
• "Butterfly" (Kumi Koda song), a 2005 song by Kumi Koda from the album Best ~first things~
• "Butterfly" (Kylie Minogue song), a 2001 song by Kylie Minogue from the album Light Years
• "Butterfly" (Smile.dk song), a 1998 song by Smile.dk from the album Smile
• "Butterfly" (Towa Tei song), a 1998 song by Towa Tei from the album Last Century Modern
• "Butterfly" (Weezer song), a 1996 song by Weezer from the album Pinkerton
• "Butterflies" (1953 song), a 1953 song recorded by Patti Page
• "Butterflies" (Michael Jackson song), a 2002 song by Michael Jackson from the album Invincible

[edit] Other

• Butterfly Recordings, one of two record labels set up by Youth
• Iron Butterfly, a United States psychedelic rock band
• Madama Butterfly, an opera by Giacomo Puccini

[edit] Film and television

• The Butterfly (1914 film) directed by Tom Ricketts and starring Charlotte Burton
• Butterfly (1982 film), directed by Matteo Ottaviano and starring Pia Zadora and Ed McMahon
• Butterfly (1999 film), directed by José Luis Cuerda and starring Fernando Fernán Gómez
• The Butterfly (2002 film), directed by Philippe Muyl starring Michel Serrault
• Butterfly (2004 film) (蝴蝶), directed by Yan Yan Mak and starring Josie Ho and Tian Yuan
• The Butterfly Effect, a movie released in 2004 starring Ashton Kutcher
• Butterflies (TV series), a UK series starring Wendy Craig and Geoffrey Palmer