Rainbow (disambiguation)
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A rainbow
is a meteorological phenomenon that appears as a multicolored arc that forms with the sunlight
Rainbow may also refer to:
Rainbow
A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon that causes a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines on to droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. It takes the form of a multicoloured arc...
is a meteorological phenomenon that appears as a multicolored arc that forms with the sunlight
Rainbow may also refer to:
Geography
- Rainbow, VictoriaRainbow, VictoriaRainbow is a town in north west Victoria, Australia, kilometres from Melbourne. The town is in the Shire of Hindmarsh and the nearest large towns are Warracknabeal, Dimboola and Nhill, all to the south...
, Australia - Rainbow Range (Coast Mountains)Rainbow Range (Coast Mountains)The Rainbow Range, formerly known as the Rainbow Mountains, is a mountain range in British Columbia, Canada, located northwest of Anahim Lake...
, British Columbia, Canada - Rainbow Range (Rocky Mountains)Rainbow Range (Rocky Mountains)The Rainbow Range is a small subrange of the Park Ranges subdivions of the Northern Continental Ranges of the Rocky Mountains on the border between Alberta and British Columbia in Mount Robson Provincial Park...
, British Columbia and Alberta, Canada - Rainbow, CaliforniaRainbow, CaliforniaRainbow is a census-designated place in San Diego County, California. The population was 1,832 at the 2010 census, down from 2,026 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Rainbow is located at ....
, United States - Rainbow, Placer County, CaliforniaRainbow, Placer County, CaliforniaRainbow is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California. Rainbow is located east of Cisco Grove. It lies at an elevation of 5781 feet ....
, United States
Organizations
- Rainbow (political party)Rainbow (political party)The Rainbow is a political party in Greece, and a member of the European Free Alliance. It is known for its activism amongst what it regards as the Ethnic Macedonian minority in Greece and their descendants abroad...
- Rainbow (Girl Guides)Rainbow (Girl Guides)A Rainbow Guide is a member of a section of some Guiding organisations who is between the ages of 5 and 7 . Exact age limits are slightly different in each organisation...
- Rainbows (charity)Rainbows (charity)Rainbows is the world’s largest grief support organization dedicated to helping children and teens cope with the emotional pain of life-altering loss and crises. It is based in the United States...
, a youth grief support organization - RAINBORAINBORAINBO - alternatively RAINB♀ - is an international non-governmental organisation working to eliminate female circumcision / female genital mutilation through women’s self-empowerment and social change.-Foundation and initial impact:RAINBO was founded in 1994 by a group of African immigrants...
, an international non-governmental organization - Rainbow Motorcycle ClubRainbow Motorcycle ClubThe Rainbow Motorcycle Club is a gay men's motorcycle club based in San Francisco, California. The club was founded in San Francisco in 1971 by Ron Johnson and Mario Pirami...
, a gay men's motorcycle club based in San Francisco, California
Film and television
- Rainbow (1944 film)Rainbow (1944 film)Rainbow , is a 1944 Soviet war film directed by Mark Donskoy and written by Wanda Wasilewska based on her novel, Tecza. The film depicts life in a Nazi-occupied village in Ukraine at the beginning of World War II from the view point of the terrorized villagers...
, a Soviet war film - The Rainbow (film)The Rainbow (film)The Rainbow is a 1989 drama film directed by Ken Russell. The story, adapted from the D. H. Lawrence novel, is a prequel to Lawrence's Women in Love, which was also made into a film by Russell in 1969....
, a 1989 British drama, adapted from the Lawrence novel - Rainbow (1996 film)Rainbow (1996 film)Rainbow is a 1996 family adventure film directed by Bob Hoskins, written by Ashley Sidaway and Robert Sidaway and starring Bob Hoskins, Terry Finn, Jacob Tierney, Saul Rubinek and Dan Aykroyd...
, a British-Canadian family adventure - Rainbow (2005 film), a Chinese drama
- Rainbow (TV series)Rainbow (TV series)Rainbow is a British children's television series, created by Pamela Lonsdale, which ran twice weekly at 12:10 on Tuesdays and Fridays on the ITV network, from 16 October 1972 to 6 March 1992...
, a 1972-1992 children's programme - Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no ShichininRainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin, is a Japanese manga series written by George Abe and illustrated by Masasumi Kakizaki. It began serialization in 2003 in Shogakukan Publishing's Weekly Young Sunday manga magazine but was moved to Big Comic Spirits when the magazine stopped publication. It was later published in twenty two bound...
, a manga and anime series
Music
- Rainbow RecordsRainbow RecordsRainbow Records was a record label based in the United States of America in the 1920s which featured recordings of Christian gospel music, hymns, and spirituals....
, a record label - Rainbow (musician), member of the Birthday Massacre
- Rainbow (band)Rainbow (band)Rainbow were an English rock band, controlled by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore from 1975 to 1984 and 1994 to 1997. It was originally established with American rock band Elf's members, though over the years Rainbow went through many line-up changes with no two studio albums featuring the same line-up...
, an English rock group - Rainbow (Korean band)Rainbow (Korean band)RAINBOW is a 7-member South Korean girl group under DSP Media. The members are Jae Kyung Go Woo Ri Cho Hyun Young Kim Ji Sook No Eul Oh Seung Ah , Jung Yoon Hye...
, a South Korean girl group - Rainbow (Boris with Michio Kurihara album)
- Rainbow (Mariah Carey album)Rainbow (Mariah Carey album)Rainbow is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, released on November 2, 1999, by Columbia Records. The album followed the same pattern as Carey's previous album, Butterfly , in which she began her transition into the R&B market. Rainbow contains a mix of...
- Rainbow (Johnny Cash album)Rainbow (Johnny Cash album)Rainbow is an album by American country singer Johnny Cash, his last for Columbia Records, released in 1985 . "I'm Leaving Now", which appeared fifteen years later as a track on Cash's American III: Solitary Man, was released as a single rather unsuccessfully, but the album's signature song is a...
- Rainbow (Miho Fukuhara album)Rainbow (Miho Fukuhara album)-Oricon Overall Sales Chart :-Physical sales and rank:-Certifications from Rainbow:*From Rainbow*"Yasashii Aka"*"Love: Winter Song"...
- Rainbow (Ayumi Hamasaki album)Rainbow (Ayumi Hamasaki album)Upon its release, the album received mixed reviews. Adam Greenberg of Allmusic stated, "[Rainbow] came after a string of high-charting albums, itself not reaching the same heights thanks to some interesting but uneven experimentation with her sound"...
- Rainbow (Dolly Parton album)Rainbow (Dolly Parton album)-Chart performance:-External links:*...
- Rainbow, an album by McGuinness FlintMcGuinness FlintMcGuinness Flint was a rock band formed in 1970 by Tom McGuinness, former bassist and guitarist with Manfred Mann, and Hughie Flint, former drummer with John Mayall; plus vocalist and keyboard player Dennis Coulson, and multi-instrumentalists and songwriters Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle...
- Rainbow, an album by Neil DiamondNeil DiamondNeil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
- "Rainbow", a song by Blackfoot from After the ReignAfter The ReignAfter the Reign is a Blackfoot album released on May 24, 1994 through Wildcat Records. It has so far thus proved to be the final Blackfoot studio album.-Track listing:All songs by Rickey Medlocke and Benny Rappa except where noted...
- "Rainbow", a song by Colbie Caillat from Breakthrough
- "Rainbows", a song by Madvillain from MadvillainyMadvillainyMadvillainy is the debut album by American hip hop duo Madvillain, a group consisting of MF DOOM and Madlib . It was released on March 23, 2004 on Stones Throw Records to overwhelmingly positive reviews...
- "Rainbow", a song by Émilie Simon from The Big MachineThe Big MachineThe Big Machine is the fourth studio album by French singer, composer and producer Émilie Simon. The album is completely in English; no French songs were included on the album. However, some songs have fragments in French.-Promotion:...
- "The Rainbow", a song by Talk Talk from Spirit of EdenSpirit of EdenSpirit of Eden was the fourth album by the English band Talk Talk. The songs were written by Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene, and performed by numerous musicians using a diverse combination of instruments. In 2008, Alan McGee of the Guardian wrote: "Spirit of Eden has not dated; it's remarkable...
- Jeramy "Rainbow" Gritter, member of WhitestarrWhitestarrWhitestarr is an American rock band from Malibu, California. The band has garnered attention owing to the members' relationships and to their television series...
Computing
- Rainbow (data storage)
- The Rainbow (magazine)The Rainbow (magazine)The Rainbow was a monthly magazine for the TRS-80 Color Computer by the Tandy Corporation . It was started by the late Lawrence C...
, a 1981-1993 computer magazine - Rainbow 100Rainbow 100The Rainbow 100 was a microcomputer introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1982. This desktop unit had the video-terminal display circuitry from the VT102, a video monitor similar to the VT220 in a dual-CPU box with both Zilog Z80 and Intel 8088 CPUs.The Rainbow 100 was a triple-use...
, a microcomputer - Rainbow tableRainbow tableA rainbow table is a precomputed table for reversing cryptographic hash functions, usually for cracking password hashes. Tables are usually used in recovering the plaintext password, up to a certain length consisting of a limited set of characters. It is a form of time-memory tradeoff, using less...
, a data structure used in password cracking - Rainbow, an application using the Okapi FrameworkOkapi FrameworkThe Okapi Framework is a cross-platform and open-source set of components and applications that offer extensive support for localizing and translating documentation and software.- Architecture :The Okapi Framework is organized around the following parts:...
Military
, a missile program, one of nine British warships, one of two Canadian warships, a ship of the United States Navy- XF-12 RainbowXF-12 RainbowThe Republic XF-12 Rainbow was an American four-engine, all-metal prototype reconnaissance aircraft designed by the Republic Aviation Company in the late 1940s. Like most large aircraft of the era, it used radial engines—in this case, the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 "Wasp Major." The aircraft was...
, a 1940s military reconnaissance aircraft - Project RainbowProject RainbowProject Rainbow was the name given by the CIA to a research project aimed at reducing the radar cross section of the Lockheed U-2 to reduce the chance that it would be detected and tracked by Soviet radars during its overflights of the USSR.-Early Flights:...
, a CIA project - Rainbow CodesRainbow CodesThe Rainbow Codes were a series of code names used to disguise the nature of various British military research projects. They were mainly used from after the Second World War until 1958, when they were replaced by an alphanumeric code system.-History:...
, a series of code names used for British military projects - Rainbow HerbicidesRainbow HerbicidesThe Rainbow Herbicides are a group of chemicals used by the United States military in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Success with Project AGILE field tests with herbicides in South Vietnam in 1961 led to the formal herbicidal program Trail Dust...
, a form of herbicidal warfare - Rainbow Plans, a series of U.S. war plans
- Operation Rainbow (2004), an Israel military operation in Gaza Strip
Other uses
- The RainbowThe RainbowThe Rainbow is a 1915 novel by British author D. H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, particularly focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters....
, a novel by D. H. Lawrence - Rainbow S.r.l.Rainbow S.r.l.Rainbow S.r.l. is an Italian animation studio that is best known for being the producers of the Winx Club series. They also have produced a number of other animated series such as Tommy and Oscar, Monster Allergy, Prezzy and co-producer of the new series, Huntik. The CEO of Rainbow S.r.l...
, Italian animation studio - Rainbow Media Holdings, now AMC Networks, formerly a subsidiary of Cablevision
- Rainbow (Beanie Baby)
- Rainbow (Noon Universe)Rainbow (Noon Universe)Rainbow is a fictional planet described in Far Rainbow by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. This planet is a part of the so called Noon Universe and presents a planetwide experimental laboratory used by null-physicists...
, a fictional planet - Rainbow (ride)
- Rainbow (vacuum cleaner), a Greek ship
- Rainbow Babies & Children's HospitalRainbow Babies & Children's HospitalRainbow Babies & Children's Hospital is a 244-bed children's hospital located in Cleveland, Ohio. It is a part of University Hospitals Case Medical Center, formerly University Hospitals of Cleveland. It is consistently ranked as one of the top three pediatric hospital in the Midwest and a top 10...
, a hospital in Ohio, United States - Rainbow Bar and GrillRainbow Bar and GrillThe Rainbow Bar and Grill is a bar and restaurant on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, United States adjacent to the border of Beverly Hills, California. Its address is 9015 Sunset Boulevard....
, a bar and restaurant in West Hollywood, California, United States - Rainbow Centre, Karachi, a building in Karachi, Pakistan
- Rainbow RoomRainbow RoomThe Rainbow Room was an upscale restaurant and nightclub on the 65th floor of the GE Building in Rockefeller Center, Midtown Manhattan, New York City.-Cuisine:...
, an upscale restaurant and nightclub in Rockefeller Center, Midtown Manhattan, New York City - Rainbow Ski AreaRainbow Ski AreaRainbow Ski Area is a ski resort in the Tasman Region of New Zealand's South Island.It opens a little later than other ski resorts, with an operating season from mid-July to mid-October...
, a ski resort in the Tasman Region of New Zealand's South Island - Rainbow Theatre, a building in the Finsbury Park area of North London, UK
- Rainbow Stores, a supermarket chain owned by Anglia Regional Co-operative SocietyAnglia Regional Co-operative SocietyAnglia Regional Co-operative Society Limited is the fifth largest consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom. It was formed by the merger of the Greater Peterborough Regional and Anglia Co-operative Societies in 1987. The Society has a wide-ranging and extensive portfolio with over 100 stores,...
People with the name
- Bernarr RainbowBernarr RainbowBernarr Joseph George Rainbow was a historian of music education, organist, and choir master from the United Kingdom.-Biography:...
(1914–1998), organist and choir master - William Joseph RainbowWilliam Joseph RainbowWilliam Joseph Rainbow was an entomologist and arachnologist whose work includes the first catalogue of Australian spiders.-Life:...
(1856–1919), Australian entomologist
See also
- Rainbow Coalition (disambiguation)
- Rainbow Springs, FloridaRainbow Springs, FloridaRainbow Springs, formerly known as Blue Spring, is a first-magnitude artesian spring formation in Marion County, Florida, USA, several miles north of the city of Dunnellon, Florida. Rainbow Springs is the focal point of Rainbow Springs State Park. The spring formation is the fourth-largest in...
, United States - Human rainbowHuman rainbowA human rainbow is where a group of people form a pattern on the ground by placing themselves in the typical characteristics of a rainbow. For example wearing the colours red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet and forming a rainbow arch at the same time. Some human rainbows are formed in...
, a rainbow pattern formed by people - Rainbow WarriorRainbow Warrior-Vessels:*Rainbow Warrior , a former fishing trawler, acquired by Greenpeace in 1978.**Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, by French intelligence operatives in 1985....
, one of two ships owned by the environmental organisation Greenpeace - Rainbow FamilyRainbow FamilyThe Rainbow Family of Living Light is a loosely affiliated group of individuals committed to principles of non-violence and egalitarianism. They put on events known as Rainbow Gatherings....
, a loosely affiliated group of individuals committed to principles of non-violence and egalitarianism - Rainbow flagRainbow flagA rainbow flag is a multi-colored flag consisting of stripes in the colors of the rainbow. The actual colors shown differ, but many of the designs are based on the traditional scheme of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, or some more modern division of the rainbow spectrum .The...
, rainbow flags in various cultures and movements - Rainbow flag (LGBT movement)Rainbow flag (LGBT movement)The rainbow flag, sometimes pride flag, LGBT pride flag or gay pride flag, is a symbol of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pride and LGBT social movements in use since the 1970s. The colours reflect the diversity of the LGBT community, and the flag is often used as a symbol of gay pride in...
, symbol of diversity in the gay community - Rainbow kickRainbow kickThe rainbow kick is a trick used in association football, in which a player steps over the ball and...
or rainbow flick, a football trick - Rainbow NationRainbow NationRainbow Nation is a term coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to describe post-apartheid South Africa, after South Africa's first fully democratic election in 1994....
, a term describing post-apartheid South Africa - Rainbow SandalsRainbow SandalsRainbow Sandals Inc. was established in 1974 in Laguna Beach, California by Jay "Sparky" Longley and is currently based out of San Clemente, California...
, a footwear brand - Rainbow ShopsRainbow ShopsRainbow Shops or Rainbow is a moderately-pricedAmerican retail apparel company comprising several lifestylebrands primarily targeting teens, young women, plus size women,and children. Rainbow is also very popular among college students...
, a fashion retail chain - Rainbows in mythologyRainbows in mythologyThe rainbow, a natural phenomenon noted for its beauty and inexplicability, has been a favorite component of mythology throughout history. The Norse saw it as Bifrost; Judeo-Christian traditions signs it as a covenant with God not to destroy the world by means of floodwater. Finding a mythology...
- Edward RainboweEdward RainboweEdward Rainbowe or Rainbow was an English clergyman and a noted preacher.-Life:He was born on 20 April 1608 at Blyton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire, where his father Thomas Rainbowe was vicar. His mother, Rebecca, daughter of David Allen, rector of the neighbouring parish of Ludborough, was educated in...
(1608–1684), Bishop of Carlisle