Blast

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Blast or The Blast may refer to:

• Explosion, a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner
• Detonation, an exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front

Film

• Blast! (1972 film) or The Final Comedown, an American drama
• Blast (1997 film), starring Andrew Divoff
• Blast (2000 film), starring Liesel Matthews
• Blast (2004 film), an action/comedy/thriller film
• BLAST! (2008 film), a documentary about the BLAST telescope

Music

• Blast (album), an album by Holly Johnson
• The Blast (album), an album by Yuvan Shankar Raja
• "The Blast" (song), a song by Reflection Eternal
• Bl'ast, an American hardcore punk band
• The Blast (band), a Russian indie band
• Blast! (musical), a 2001 Broadway musical
• Blast (venue) or Blastbeat, an Irish music programme and competition for teenagers

Literature

• Blast! (comics), a 1991 British comic
• Blast (magazine), a 1914-15 literary magazine of the Vorticist movement
• The Blast (newspaper), a 1916-17 American anarchist periodical

Science and technology

• BLAST, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, an algorithm used in bioinformatics
• BLAST (protocol)
• BLAST (telescope), Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope
• BLAST model checker, Berkeley Lazy Abstraction Software verification Tool
• Blast cell or precursor cell, in cytology, a type of partially differentiated, usually unipotent cell
• blast disease, a disease of cereal crops
• Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time (BLAST)

Other uses

• BLAST network, a proposed rapid transit system for Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• BBC Blast, a network of creative teenagers
• The Blast, an Irish radio show on Today FM, hosted by Ray Foley
• Blast, an animal referred to in the Bible
• Blast, a demolition plugin for Autodesk Maya

See also

• Blaster (disambiguation)
• Blasting (disambiguation)

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