Encounter

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Encounter may refer to:

In music:

• Encounter (album), a 1988 album by Michael Stearns
• Encounter!, a 1968 album by Pepper Adams
• Encounters (album), an album by Mal Waldron
• Place Vendôme (Swingle Singers with MJQ album), released in America as Encounter
• Encounters, an album by Sylvan
• Encounters, an album by Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster, also called Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster

In TV and film:

• Encounter (TV series), a 1958 CBC/ABC series
• Encounters (TV series), a TV series that featured real-life stories of paranormal phenomena
• "The Encounter", a 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone
• Encounter, a 1997 Indian film by Nimmala Shankar
• Encounter (2013 film), a 2013 Bengali film
• Encounter (Indian TV series), a 2014 Indian television series

In ships:

• HMS Encounter (1873), a wooden screw corvette
• HMAS Encounter (1902), a Challenger class protected cruiser
• HMS Encounter (H10), an E class destroyer launched in 1934

In other uses:

• Encounter (psychology), an authentic, congruent meeting between individuals
• Encounter (game), an international network of active urban games
• Encounter (magazine), a literary magazine
• Encounters (anthology), a 2004 anthology of speculative fiction
• Encounter (video game), a game by Novagen

See also

• Encounter group, a form of group psychotherapy
• Random encounter, a feature in role-playing and video games
• Cosmic Encounter, a science fiction-themed strategy board game
• Brief Encounter, a 1945 British film
• Random Encounter (film), a 1998 film
• Encounter killing, a type of extrajudicial killing in which police kill alleged criminals in gun battles
• Close encounter, a claimed UFO sighting
• Encounter Bay, a bay in South Australia