Music

• Avalanche (band)
  Avalanche (band)
  Avalanche was a Norwegian disco and dance group founded in 1987. The group was composed of Kjetil Røsnes and Kirsti Johansen . From the late 1980s and during the 1990s the couple lived and worked in Germany and France...
  
  , a 1980s Norwegian disco group
• Avalanche (EP), a 2000 EP by Echo & the Bunnymen
• Avalanche (Thea Gilmore album), 2003
• Avalanche (Matthew Good album), 2003
• Avalanche (SVS album)
  Avalanche (SVS album)
  -Track listing:1. Avalanche2. Loch Ness3. Curiosity4. Froggy5. Peaches6. Little Wishes7. Deep Sea Green8. No Real Home9. Alien10. Right/Wrong11. Ice Cream Overdrive...
  
  , 1992
• Avalanche (British India album)
  Avalanche (British India album)
  Avalanche is the third studio album by the Australian indie rock band British India, released through Shock Records on 30 April 2010.Four bootleg live studio demos were released for sale in a package with the album at JB Hi-Fi...
  
  , 2010
• Avalanche (Mountain album)
  Avalanche (Mountain album)
  Avalanche is a 1974 album by Mountain, currently available on CD. It featured a reunion with drummer Corky Laing.- Track listing :# "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" - 5:05# "Sister Justice" - 3:58...
  
  , 1974
• Avalanche (Leah Andreone album)
  Avalanche (Leah Andreone album)
  Avalanche is Leah Andreone's third full length album. It contains the song "Never Stop Trying" and "Make Time For Me" .-Track listing:All songs by Leah Andreone, except where noted#"Never Stop Trying"...
  
  , 2009
• "Avalanche" (song)
  Avalanche (song)
  "Avalanche" is a song by Leonard Cohen. It appears on his third album, Songs of Love and Hate, released in 1971.The lyrics are based on a poem he had previously written...
  
  , a song on Leonard Cohen's 1971 album Songs of Love and Hate
• The Avalanches
  The Avalanches
  The Avalanches are an Australian electronic music group formed in 1997 with mainstays Robbie Chater on keyboards, Tony Diblasi on keyboards, bass and backing vocals, and Darren Seltmann on vocals and keyboards. They are known for their live DJ sets and their debut album Since I Left You , which was...
  
  , an Australian electronic music group
• The Avalanche: Outtakes and Extras from the Illinois Album, a 2006 album by Sufjan Stevens
• Doktor Avalanche, a group of drum machines used by the group The Sisters of Mercy
• "Avalanche," a song on Ryan Adams's 2004 album Love Is Hell
• "Avalanche," a song on Wintersleep's 2003 album Wintersleep
• "Avalanche", a song on David Cook's 2008 album David Cook
  David Cook (album)
  David Cook is the first major-label album from seventh season American Idol winner David Cook. The album was released on November 18, 2008 in the United States, was certified platinum and has sold over one million copies in the United States. It has produced two top twenty singles, "Light On" and...
  
  
• "Avalanche", a song on Marié Digby's 2009 album Breathing Underwater
  Breathing Underwater (Marie Digby album)
  - Digital Singles :The album's lead U.S. single "Avalanche" was released on April 13, 2009. On September 21, 2009. A music video for Avalanche was posted on Marié's official YouTube...
  
  
• "Avalanche", a song by Matthew Good
  Matthew Good
  Matthew Frederick Robert Good is a Canadian rock musician. He was the lead singer for the Matthew Good Band, one of Canada's most successful alternative rock bands in the 1990s, before dissolving the band in 2002...
  
  
• "Avalanche", a song on Youngblood Brass Band's 2003 album Center:Level:Roar
  Center:Level:Roar
  Center:Level:Roar is an album recorded in 2003 by the Youngblood Brass Band.- Track listing :# "To Come Together"# "Round One"# "Culture:Envy:War"# "Brooklyn"# "Diaspora"# "Human Nature Pt. 2"# "Thursday"# "The Movement"# "Avalanche"...
  
  
• "Avalanche", a song on Manafest's 2010 album The Chase
  The Chase (Manafest album)
  The Chase is the fourth studio album released under BEC Recordings by the Christian rapper Manafest on March 30, 2010. The album received a nomination in the category of Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year for the Juno Awards of 2011....
  
  
• "Avalanche", a song on Gigolo Aunts's 1988 album Everybody Happy
  Everybody Happy
  Everybody Happy is the 1988 debut album by Gigolo Aunts, released on Coyote Records.-Track listing:US Version Catalog Number: TTC 88146 , Formats: LP, Cassette#"Summertime Evening" 3:50...
  
  

Gaming

• Avalanche (video game), a 1978 arcade game released by Atari
• Avalanche (drinking game)
  Avalanche (drinking game)
  Avalanche is a drinking game of chance which can be played with any number of players. Play passes counterclockwise around a circle. The current player adds some of his/her drink of an amount of his/her choosing to the "game glass." Adding only a little drink, especially to a fairly empty glass,...
  
  
• Avalanche chess
  Avalanche chess
  Avalanche chess is a chess variant designed by Ralph Betza in 1977. After moving one of your own pieces, you must move one of your opponent's pawns forward one space.- Rules :...
  
  , a chess variant
• Avalanche joseki
  Avalanche joseki
  The avalanche joseki is one of the most celebrated joseki in the opening stage game of Go, and the one that has been most deeply studied in modern times. Hundreds of unique variations have appeared in high-level games...
  
  , a sequence in the game of Go
• Avalanche Press
  Avalanche Press
  Avalanche Press is an American company that publishes board wargames and has published some role-playing game supplements. An extremely prolific company, they have produced many respected contributions to the wargame community, most notably The Great War at Sea and Panzer Grenadier series, as well...
  
  , a producer of wargame and roleplaying game products
• Avalanche Software
  Avalanche Software
  Avalanche Software is a video game developer studio, founded in October 1995 by four lead programmers from Sculptured Software. The company has developed for every console platform since the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and SNES days and has grown to a staff of over 100 since its inception...
  
  , an American video game developer
• Avalanche Studios
  Avalanche Studios
  Avalanche Studios is an independent, privately held video game developer based in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in March 2003 by Christofer Sundberg, Linus and Viktor Blomberg. Avalanche Studios focuses on developing original intellectual properties for games and other media and base their...
  
  , a Swedish video game developer
• 1080° Avalanche
  1080° Avalanche
  1080° Avalanche is a snowboarding game for the Nintendo GameCube, developed by Nintendo's in-house development studio, NST, and published by Nintendo. Avalanche is a sequel to 1080° Snowboarding for the Nintendo 64. The game has an emphasis on racing, rather than doing tricks, in contrast to other...
  
  , a 2003 Nintendo GameCube game
• AVALANCHE , an organization in the game Final Fantasy VII
• Avalanche, a map on Gears of War 2
  Gears of War 2
  Gears of War 2 is a third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games with lead design by Cliff Bleszinski, and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. It is the second installment of the Gears of War series. The game was officially released in North America, Europe and...
  
  
• Avalanche, a map on Halo 3
  Halo 3
  Halo 3 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie for the Xbox 360 console. The third installment in the Halo franchise, the game concludes the story arc begun in Halo: Combat Evolved and continued in Halo 2...
  
  

Sports

• Avalanche (wrestler)
• Adelaide Avalanche
  Adelaide Avalanche
  The Adelaide Adrenaline are a semi-professional ice hockey team based in Thebarton, South Australia that play in the Australian Ice Hockey League .-History:...
  
  , an Australia hockey team
• Alaska Avalanche
  Alaska Avalanche
  The Alaska Avalanche are a Tier II Junior A ice hockey team in the North American Hockey League's West Division. The team plays their home games at the Palmer Ice Arena in Palmer, Alaska.-Franchise history:...
  
  , an Alaska hockey team
• Colorado Avalanche
  Colorado Avalanche
  The Colorado Avalanche are a professional ice hockey team based in Denver, Colorado, United States. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The Avalanche have won the Stanley Cup twice, in 1995–96 and 2000–01. The franchise...
  
  , an NHL (hockey) team based in Denver, Colorado
• Denver Avalanche
  Denver Avalanche
  The Denver Avalanche was an American soccer team based out of Denver, Colorado that played in the Major Indoor Soccer League from 1980 to 1982. Their home arena was McNichols Sports Arena...
  
  , a Colorado soccer team
• Hamilton Avalanche
  Hamilton Avalanche
  Hamilton FC Rage is a Canadian women’s soccer team, founded in 2006. The team is a member of the W-League, the second tier of women’s soccer in the United States and Canada...
  
  , a Canada soccer team
• Salem Avalanche
  Salem Avalanche
  The Salem Red Sox are a minor league baseball team in Salem, Virginia, USA, an independent city adjacent to Roanoke, Virginia. They are a Class High-A team in the Carolina League and are a farm team of the Boston Red Sox...
  
  , a Virginia baseball team
• Quebec Avalanche
  Quebec Avalanche
  The Quebec Avalanche was a National Women's Hockey League team located in Laval, Quebec, Canada. Before they were previously known as Sainte-Julie Pantheres and Metropol Le Cheyenne...
  
  , a Canada hockey team

Technology

• Avalanche (dynamic analysis tool)
  Avalanche (dynamic analysis tool)
  For other uses, see Avalanche Avalanche is a dynamic program analysis tool developed in ISP RAS that performs symbolic execution in order to generate input data that causes an analysed program to crash...
  
  , a program analysis tool for defect detection
• Avalanche (P2P)
  Avalanche (P2P)
  Avalanche is the name of a proposed peer-to-peer network created by Pablo Rodriguez and Christos Gkantsidis at Microsoft, which claims to offer improved scalability and bandwidth efficiency compared to existing P2P systems....
  
  , a proposed peer-to-peer network
• Avalanche (phishing group)
  Avalanche (phishing group)
  Avalanche is a criminal syndicate involved in phishing attacks. In 2010, the Anti-Phishing Working Group reported that Avalanche had been responsible for two-thirds of all phishing attacks in the second half of 2009, describing it as "one of the most sophisticated and damaging on the Internet"...
  
  , a criminal syndicate which performs phishing attacks
• Avalanche Corporate Technology
  Avalanche Corporate Technology
  Avalanche Corporate Technology is a technology cooperative that provides a private exchange that enables corporations to share intellectual property , particularly that represented by computer software. Avalanche is a for-profit initiative, chartered by a group of companies, to reduce the cost and...
  
  , a technology cooperative
• Avalanche breakdown
  Avalanche breakdown
  Avalanche breakdown is a phenomenon that can occur in both insulating and semiconducting materials. It is a form of electric current multiplication that can allow very large currents within materials which are otherwise good insulators. It is a type of electron avalanche...
  
  , a form of electric current multiplication
• Avalanche diode
  Avalanche diode
  In electronics, an avalanche diode is a diode that is designed to go through avalanche breakdown at a specified reverse bias voltage. The junction of an avalanche diode is designed to prevent current concentration at hot spots, so that the diode is undamaged by the breakdown...
  
  
• Avalanche photodiode
  Avalanche photodiode
  An avalanche photodiode is a highly sensitive semiconductor electronic device that exploits the photoelectric effect to convert light to electricity. APDs can be thought of as photodetectors that provide a built-in first stage of gain through avalanche multiplication. From a functional standpoint,...
  
  , a highly sensitive semiconductor device that converts an optical signal into an electrical signal
• Electron avalanche
  Electron avalanche
  An electron avalanche is a process in which a number of free electrons in a medium are subjected to strong acceleration by an electric field, ionizing the medium's atoms by collision , thereby forming "new" electrons to undergo the same process in successive cycles...
  
  , a process similar to an avalanche breakdown, occurring without connection between two electrodes

Film and television

• Avalanche (1923 film), a 1923 Austrian film
• Avalanche (1952 film), a 1952 Japanese film directed by Kaneto Shindō
  Kaneto Shindo
  , Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His best known films include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note.Shindō has often made films dealing with Hiroshima or the atomic bomb...
  
  
• Avalanche (1978 film)
  Avalanche (1978 film)
  Avalanche is a 1978 American disaster film, directed by Corey Allen and starring Rock Hudson, Robert Forster, Mia Farrow and Jeanette Nolan...
  
  , a 1978 American disaster film with Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow
• The Avalanche (film), a 1919 American film
• "Avalanche" (Captain Scarlet), a 1967 episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Transportation

• Chevrolet Avalanche
  Chevrolet Avalanche
  The Chevrolet Avalanche is a four-door, five or six passenger sport utility truck sharing GM's long-wheelbase chassis used on the Chevrolet Suburban and Cadillac Escalade EXT. Unlike the typical pickup truck, the open bed of the Avalanche opens to the back seat area through a folding panel and a...
  
  , a sport utility truck
• HSV Avalanche SUV, a dual-cab utility vehicle
• Avalanche, a GWR Banking Class
  GWR Banking Class
  The Banking Class were five 0-6-0ST broad gauge steam locomotives for assisting trains up inclines on the Great Western Railway. Designed by Daniel Gooch, they were tank engine versions of his Standard Goods class, and mainly built at Swindon Works....
  
   locomotive run by the Great Western Railway (UK)
• Avalanche, a GWR 3031 Class
  GWR 3031 Class
  The Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class was a type of steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899. They were designed by William Dean for passenger work...
  
   locomotive that was built for and run on Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
• Gemballa
  Gemballa
  Gemballa is a tuning company based in Leonberg near Stuttgart, Germany, which was founded by, and named after, Uwe Gemballa in 1981. They provided aftermarket parts mainly for Porsche. In May 2010, the Gemballa factory was seized by German authorities and shut down following the disappearance of...
  
   Avalanche

Other meanings

• Avalanche (comics)
  Avalanche (comics)
  Avalanche is a Marvel Comics supervillain and an enemy of the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, he first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #141 ....
  
  , a Marvel Comics character
• Avalanche (Kings Dominion)
  Avalanche (Kings Dominion)
  Avalanche is a bobsled roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, USA. Avalanche opened in 1988 and is the only Mack bobsled coaster running in the United States today. It is located in the African-themed Congo section of the amusement park. There are seven cars per train and the...
  
  , a roller coaster at Kings Dominion
• Avalanche (Pleasure Beach Blackpool), a roller coaster at Pleasure Beach Blackpool
• Snowball effect
  Snowball effect
  Snowball effect is a figurative term for a process that starts from an initial state of small significance and builds upon itself, becoming larger , and perhaps potentially dangerous or disastrous , though it might be beneficial instead...
  
  , a metaphorical term for a process of gradual growth
• Avalanche effect
  Avalanche effect
  In cryptography, the avalanche effect refers to a desirable property of cryptographic algorithms, typically block ciphers and cryptographic hash functions. The avalanche effect is evident if, when an input is changed slightly the output changes significantly...
  
  , a concept in cryptography
• Avalanche, a children's novel by Anna Rutgers van der Loeff
  Anna Rutgers van der Loeff
  Anna Rutgers van der Loeff was a Dutch writer of children's novels.Some of her works have been translated into other languages, including English....
  
  
• Avalanche, a horse in the second book in the Age of Fire
  Age of Fire
  Age of Fire is a series of fantasy/adventure novels written by E. E. Knight, who is also known for writing the Vampire Earth series of novels.- Plot :The series follows the adventures of three dragon siblings...
  
   series by E. E. Knight.
• Avalanche (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe

See also

• Operation Avalanche (disambiguation)
  Operation Avalanche (disambiguation)
  Operation Avalanche, the Allied invasion of Italy, 1943Operation Avalanche may also refer to:*Operation Avalanche , A U.S. investigation of child pornography on the Internet, launched 1999...
  
  
• Lavalas (disambiguation)