Lightning (disambiguation)
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Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity.
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Lightning may also refer to:
[edit] Transportation
- Aircraft
- English Electric Lightning, a supersonic British fighter aircraft of the Cold War era
- P-38 Lightning, an American fighter aircraft of World War II
- XP-58 Chain Lightning, an American prototype fighter aircraft of World War II
- F-35 Lightning II, a US/UK fighter aircraft, the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)
- Other
- Lightning (clipper), a clipper ship built by Donald McKay in 1854
- Lightning (dinghy), a type of 19-foot sailing dinghy first built in 1938 and raced worldwide
- Lightning Car Company, a British company that builds electric sports cars
- Lightning GT, the flagship vehicle of the aforementioned car company
- Ford Lightning, a sports/performance version of the Ford F-150 pickup truck
- Lightning, a Great Western Railway Iron Duke Class steam locomotive from 1847 to 1878
[edit] Computing
- Lightning (software), an extension that adds calendar and scheduling functionality to the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client
- GNU lightning, a library for Just-in-time compilation
[edit] Media
- Lightning (novel), a 1988 novel by Dean Koontz
- Lightning (comics), a character in the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents comics series
- Lightning Comics, at least two American comics companies
- "Lightning", a song by Counting Crows, one of the "Flying Demos"
- Lightning, a character in the video game Final Fantasy XIII
[edit] Sports
- Tampa Bay Lightning, a National Hockey League ice-hockey franchise
- Tel Aviv Lightning, an Israel Baseball League franchise
- Lightning, the mascot of Middle Tennessee State University
[edit] Other uses
- Lightning (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Entertainment City in Kuwait
- Lightning (wrestler), a professional wrestler, half of the tag team Thunder and Lightning
- Kim Betts (born 1971), an English bodybuilder, known as Lightning on the British television show Gladiators
- Thunderbolt, the familiar symbol for lightning
- Lightning Peak, a volcano in British Columbia, Canada