Religion

• Second Coming
  Second Coming
  In Christian doctrine, the Second Coming of Christ, the Second Advent, or the Parousia, is the anticipated return of Jesus Christ from Heaven, where he sits at the Right Hand of God, to Earth. This prophecy is found in the canonical gospels and in most Christian and Islamic eschatologies...
  
  , the return of Jesus to Earth in Christian belief
• Nativity Fast
  Nativity Fast
  The Nativity Fast is a period of abstinence and penance practiced by the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches, in preparation for the Nativity of Christ, . The fast is similar to the Western Advent, except that it runs for 40 days instead of four weeks. The fast is...
  
  , Advent in the Eastern Orthodox Church

Places

• Advent, Cornwall
  Advent, Cornwall
  Advent is a civil parish on the north-western edge of Bodmin Moor in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is named after St Adwenna and lies in the Registration District of Camelford....
  
  , a civil parish

• Advent, West Virginia
  Advent, West Virginia
  Advent is an unincorporated community in southeastern Jackson County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along Advent Road southeast of the city of Ripley, the county seat of Jackson County, and near Jackson County's borders with Kanawha and Roane counties. Its elevation is 791 feet . ...
  
  , an unincorporated community

Technology

• Advent Computers, a computer brand produced by British company DSG International
• Advent Software
  Advent Software
  Advent Software is a software company that makes software designed to automate portfolio accounting for investment management firms, ranging from family offices and investment advisors to large institutional investors and hedge funds. The company has customers in 60 countries that manage some $14...
  
  , a financial software company based in San Francisco
• Adaptive Versatile Engine Technology
  Adaptive Versatile Engine Technology
  The ADaptive Versatile ENgine Technology program is an aircraft engine development program run by the United States Air Force with the goal of developing an efficient variable cycle engine for next generation military aircraft in the 20,000 lbf thrust class.-Objective:The objective of ADVENT...
  
  , or ADVENT, an aircraft engine development program run by the United States Air Force
• Advent, a speaker, hi-fi equipment and computer peripheral company founded by Henry Kloss
  Henry Kloss
  Henry Kloss was a prominent American audio engineer and businessman who helped advance high fidelity loudspeaker and radio receiver technology beginning in the 1950s. Kloss was an undergraduate student in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , but never received a degree...
  
  

Computer games

• Colossal Cave Adventure
  Colossal Cave Adventure
  Colossal Cave Adventure gave its name to the computer adventure game genre . It was originally designed by Will Crowther, a programmer and caving enthusiast who based the layout on part of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky...
  
  or ADVENT, a 1970s computer game
• Mega Man ZX Advent
  Mega Man ZX Advent
  Mega Man ZX Advent, known in Japan as , is a video game developed by Inti Creates and published by Capcom for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It is the sequel to Mega Man ZX...
  
  , a 2007 video game
• A faction in the game Sins of a Solar Empire
  Sins of a Solar Empire
  Sins of a Solar Empire is a science fiction real-time strategy computer game developed by Ironclad Games and published by Stardock Entertainment for Microsoft Windows operating systems...
  
  

Music

• The Advent
  The Advent
  The Advent is a British electronic music act. It was originally founded in 1993 by Cisco Ferreira and Colin McBean. Soon after leaving school, Ferreira began working as an engineer at Jack Trax Records, a job which enabled him to glimpse first-hand the work of such artists as Derrick May and...
  
  , a British electronic music band
• Advent (band)
  Advent (band)
  Advent was an American Christian Kernersville, North Carolina-based hardcore band and was signed to Solid State Records. The band featured members of Beloved, and was considered a pseudo-continuation of Beloved. The band had released two albums under the label Solid State Records...
  
  , an American hardcore punk band
• "Advent", a song by Opeth
  Opeth
  Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. Though the group has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force throughout the years...
  
  

Other uses

• Advent International
  Advent International
  Advent International is a global private equity firm focused on buyouts of middle market growth companies in Western and Central Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia...
  
  , a global buyout firm
• Advent (publisher)
  Advent (publisher)
  Advent:Publishers is a publishing house founded by Earl Kemp and other members of the University of Chicago Science Fiction Club, including Sidney Coleman, in 1956, to publish criticism, history, and bibliography of the science fiction field, beginning with James Blish's The Issue at Hand. The...
  
  , a publisher of science fiction books

See also

• Adventism
• Advent Rising
  Advent Rising
  Advent Rising is a third-person, science fiction action-adventure video game. It was developed by GlyphX Games and published by Majesco. The game was released on May 31, 2005 for Xbox and on August 9, 2005 for Microsoft Windows. The story of this game was created by Donald Mustard, and featured a...
  
  , a 2005 video game
• Final Fantasy VII Advent Children