Salsa
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Salsa usually means: Salsa (sauce)
, any of various sauces of Spanish, Italian or Latin American origin, from the Spanish or Italian word for sauce
But it can also mean:
Salsa (sauce)
Salsa may refer to any type of sauce. In American English, it usually refers to the spicy, often tomato based, hot sauces typical of Mexican and Central American cuisine, particularly those used as dips. In British English, the word typically refers to salsa cruda, which is common in Mexican ,...
, any of various sauces of Spanish, Italian or Latin American origin, from the Spanish or Italian word for sauce
But it can also mean:
- Salsa musicSalsa musicSalsa music is a genre of music, generally defined as a modern style of playing Cuban Son, Son Montuno, and Guaracha with touches from other genres of music...
, a fusion of afro-cuban musical styles based on Son Cubano - Salsa (dance)Salsa (dance)Salsa is a syncretic dance form with origins in Cuba as the meeting point of Spanish and African cultures.Salsa is normally a partner dance, although there are recognized solo forms such as solo dancing "suelta" and "Rueda de Casino" where multiple couples exchange partners in a circle...
, the dance forms corresponding to salsa music- Salsa (1988 film)Salsa (1988 film)Salsa is a 1988 romance film about a lower-class Puerto Rican dancer who decides to improve his lot in life by entering a salsa dancing contest. The film was directed by Boaz Davidson, and stars Robi Rosa, Rodney Harvey, and Angela Alvarado...
, a 1988 film based on the dance - Salsa (1999 film), a 1999 film based on the dance
- Salsa (1988 film)
- Salsa (album)Salsa (album)Salsa is an album of salsa music recorded by Celia Cruz in 2000. Celia was born in 1925 in Havana, Cuba. The album contains around 20 salsa songs.-Track list:-External links:*...
, a 2000 album by Celia Cruz - Salsa (fashion), a clothing company and brand
- In cryptography, the Salsa family of stream ciphers, particularly Salsa20Salsa20Salsa20 is a stream cipher submitted to eSTREAM by Daniel Bernstein. It is built on a pseudorandom function based on 32-bit addition, bitwise addition and rotation operations, which maps a 256-bit key, a 64-bit nonce , and a 64-bit stream position to a 512-bit output...
- SALSA (programming language), an actor based programming language
- SEAT SalsaSEAT SalsaThe SEAT Salsa is a concept car presented at the 2000 Geneva Motor Show, as a foretaste of SEAT's new design line under Walter de'Silva. Featuring a three-door coupé body style, it is powered by a 2.8L 24 valve V6 engine....
, a concept car built by the Spanish car maker SEAT - A character in the 2006 video game Mother 3Mother 3Mother 3 is a role-playing video game developed by Nintendo, Brownie Brown and HAL Laboratory, and published for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console. It has only been released in Japan, alongside a limited supply bundle. It is the third video game in the Mother series, following EarthBound...
- A character in the 2007 XBOX360 and 2008 PlayStation 3 game Eternal SonataEternal Sonatais an original role-playing video game created by Tri-Crescendo. The Xbox 360 version of the game was released on June 14, 2007 in Japan, September 17, 2007 in North America, and October 19, 2007 in Europe...
- Salsa d'HaitiSalsa d'HaitiSALSA d'Haiti is a Haitian airline headquartered at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It flies several round trip flights daily between Cap-Haitien and Port-au-Prince....
a Haitian airline - Salsa (satellite), also known as Cluster 2, an ESA satellite