Snowflake
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Snowflake may refer to:
- A particle of snow, an aggregate of ice crystals that forms while falling in and below a cloud.
- Snowflake (plant), flowering plants in the genus Leucojum
- A colloquial name for the Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis)
- Snowflake, Arizona, a town in the United States.
- Wilson Bentley, nicknamed Snowflake because he photographed thousands of snowflakes after devising a method on January 15, 1885 to capture their images before their shape altered or deteriorated .
- Copito de Nieve, an albino gorilla nicknamed Snowflake, who lived at Barcelona Zoo, Spain.
- Koch snowflake, a geometric fractal.
- Snowflake schema, a type of star schema in data management.
- A booking class on flights run by Scandinavian Airlines System.
- A name for a memo from the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
- Snowflake children, a child conceived through in vitro fertilization and born after embryo donation.