Action may refer to:
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Action (narrative), a literary mode
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Action fiction
Action fiction is a literary genre that focuses on stories that involve high-stakes, high-energy, and fast-paced events. This genre includes a wide range of sub-genres, such as spy novels, adventure stories, tales of terror and intrigue (" cloak ...
, a type of genre fiction
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Action game, a genre of video game
Film
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Action film
Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist is thrust into a series of events that typically involve violence and physical feats. The genre tends to feature a mostly resourceful hero struggling against incredible odds, which include l ...
, a genre of film
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''Action'' (1921 film), a film by John Ford
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''Action'' (1980 film), a film by Tinto Brass
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Action 3D
''Action 3D'' is a 2013 Indian Telugu-language 3D comedy film directed by Anil Sunkara, starring an ensemble cast of Allari Naresh, Shaam, Vaibhav, and Raju Sundaram. The film was released on 21 June 2013. The film is based on ''The Hangove ...
'', a 2013 Telugu language film
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''Action'' (2019 film), a Kollywood film.
Music
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Action (music)
The action of a string instrument that is plucked, strummed, or bowed by hand is the distance between the fingerboard and the string. In keyboard instruments, the action is the mechanism that translates the motion of the keys into the creation of ...
, a characteristic of a stringed instrument
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Action (piano) The piano action mechanism (also known as the key action mechanismPressing, Jeffrey Lynn, PhD (1946–2002), (1992''Synthesizer performance and real-time techniques'' p. 124. or simply the action) of a piano or other musical keyboard is the mechan ...
, the mechanism which drops the hammer on the string when a key is pressed
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The Action, a 1960s band
Albums
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''Action'' (B'z album) (2007)
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''Action!'' (Desmond Dekker album) (1968)
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Action Action Action'' or ''Action'', a 1965 album by Jackie McLean
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''Action!'' (Oh My God album) (2002)
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''Action'' (Oscar Peterson album) (1968)
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''Action'' (Punchline album) (2004)
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''Action'' (Question Mark & the Mysterians album) (1967)
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''Action'' (Uppermost album) (2011)
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''Action'' (EP), a 2012 EP by NU'EST
* ''Action'', a 1984 album by
Kiddo
Kiddo was a P-Funk offspring group at A&M Records, formed by Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist Michael Hampton and writer Donnie Sterling, in the early 1980s.
History
In 1978, one of Kiddo's founding members, Donnie Sterling, was a member of Pa ...
Songs
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"Action" (Freddy Cannon song) (1965), the theme song to the TV series ''Where the Action Is''
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"Action" (Sweet song) (1975), covered by various artists
* "Action", a version of "
Feeling This" by Blink-182
* "Action", a 1994 song by
Terror Fabulous
Cecil Campbell (born 20 December 1974), better known as Terror Fabulous is a Jamaican dancehall deejay, who had success in the 1990s.
Biography
Campbell was introduced to producer Dave Kelly after completing a course in electrical engineering. ...
featuring Nadine Sutherland
* "Action", a 1984 song by
The Fits
The Fits were a punk rock band from Blackpool, Lancashire, England, who were active between 1979 and 1985, having several hits on the UK Indie Chart. They reformed in 2011.
History
The Fits formed in Blackpool in October 1979, with an initia ...
* "Action", a 1960 song by
Lance Fortune
* "Action", a 1988 song by
Pearly Gates
''Pearly gates'' is an informal name for the gateway to Heaven according to some Christian denominations. It is inspired by the description of the New Jerusalem in : "The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate being made from a single pearl ...
* "Action", a 1988 song by Girlschool from ''
Take a Bite
''Take a Bite'' is the seventh studio album by British heavy metal band, Girlschool, released by GWR Records in 1988. It is the first album to feature Tracey Lamb on bass, replacing Gil Weston-Jones.
Overview
''Take a Bite'' was recorded at ...
''
* "Action", a 1989 song by Gorky Park from ''
Gorky Park (album)''
* "Action", a 2003 song by Powerman 5000 from ''
Transform
Transform may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Transform (scratch), a type of scratch used by turntablists
* ''Transform'' (Alva Noto album), 2001
* ''Transform'' (Howard Jones album) or the title song, 2019
* ''Transform'' (Powerman 5000 album ...
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* "Action", a 1972 song by Scorpions from ''
Lonesome Crow''
* "Actions", a 1980 song by
The Stingrays
* "Action Action Action Action Action", a 2008 song by We Are the Physics from ''
We Are the Physics Are OK at Music''
Literature
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''Action'' (comics), a British comic book published in 1976–1977
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Action Comics
''Action Comics'' is an American comic book/ magazine series that introduced Superman, one of the first major superhero characters. The publisher was originally known as National Allied Publications, and later as National Comics Publications ...
'', a DC Comics comic book series
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Action: A Book about Sex'', a 2016 book by Amy Rose Spiegel
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''Action'' (newspaper), a newspaper of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists
People
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Action Bronson
Ariyan Arslani (born December 2, 1983), professionally known as Action Bronson, is an American rapper, songwriter, chef, wrestler, exotic olive oil taster, and television presenter. Born and raised in Queens, New York, he embarked on his musical ...
(born 1983), American rapper, reality television star, author, and talk show host
Television and radio
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Action (Canadian TV channel)
Action (formerly known as Showcase Action) was a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. The channel was established as a spin-off of Showcase focused on action genre films and television series. Following a rebra ...
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Action (French TV channel)
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The Action Channel (US TV channel)
Get After It Media, formerly known as Luken Communications and Reach High Media Group, is a privately owned American broadcast holding company, based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which owns or operates around 80 television stations in the United St ...
, a subsidiary of Luken Communications
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''Action'' (radio), a 1945 radio program
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''Action'' (TV series), a comedy series on Fox in 1999–2000
* CBS Action (2009–2018), now known as
CBS Justice
CBS Justice (formerly CBS Action) was a television channel specialising in action film, drama and murder-mysteries programs. It launched in the UK and Ireland on 16 November 2009 and later expanded to Africa in 2019. It closed on all platforms i ...
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Sky Sports
Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports channels operated by the satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It ...
Action, a TV channel
Theatre
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Action (theatre) Action as a term in Western theatre practice refers to a principle from actor training first developed by Russian actor and theatre director Konstantin Stanislavski in the first half of the 20th century at the Moscow Art Theatre. It forms part of ...
, a principle in Western theatre practice
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''Action'' (play), a 1975 play by Sam Shepard
Organizations
Businesses
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Action (store)
Action is an, originally Dutch, international discount store-chain. Owned by different owners like 3i and eurofund V. It sells low budget, non-food and some food products with long shelf lives. Action operates stores in ten countries — Nether ...
, a Dutch discount store chain with branches in many European countries
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Action (supermarkets)
Action (formerly Action Food Barns and Action Supermarkets) was an Australian supermarket chain.
Based in Perth, Action had 80 supermarkets across Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, and was one of the largest supermarket chains i ...
, an Australian supermarket chain
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Actions Semiconductor
Actions Semiconductor Co. Ltd. () is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company founded in 2000 and headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong province. The company has about 600 employees and designs SoCs for tablets, digital audio players, photo viewers ...
, a Chinese semiconductor company
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ACTION
Action may refer to:
* Action (narrative), a literary mode
* Action fiction, a type of genre fiction
* Action game, a genre of video game
Film
* Action film, a genre of film
* ''Action'' (1921 film), a film by John Ford
* ''Action'' (1980 fil ...
, an Australian public transport company
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The Action Network (branded as Action), an American sports betting analytics company
Political parties
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Action (Cypriot political party)
Action ( el, Δρασυ, ''Drasy''; tr, Eylem) was a Cypriot bi-communal political alliance formed to contest the 2014 elections to the European Parliament, bringing together Greek and Turkish Cypriots
Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks ( tr ...
, a Cypriot political alliance
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Action (Greek political party)
Drassi (, "Action") was a liberal political party in Greece. The party was founded in 2009 by Stefanos Manos and was led by former New Democracy member Theodoros Skylakakis.
The party had no representation in the Hellenic Parliament or European ...
, a Greek political party
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Action (Italian political party), an Italian political party
Other organizations
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ACTION (U.S. government agency), a former US government federal domestic volunteer agency
Science, technology, and mathematics
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Action (physics)
In physics, action is a scalar quantity describing how a physical system has changed over time. Action is significant because the equations of motion of the system can be derived through the principle of stationary action.
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, an attribute of the dynamics of a physical system
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Action at a distance
In physics, action at a distance is the concept that an object can be affected without being physically touched (as in mechanical contact) by another object. That is, it is the non-local interaction of objects that are separated in space.
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, an outdated term for nonlocal interaction in physics
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Group action (mathematics)
In mathematics, a group action on a space is a group homomorphism of a given group into the group of transformations of the space. Similarly, a group action on a mathematical structure is a group homomorphism of a group into the automorphism ...
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Continuous group action In topology, a continuous group action on a topological space ''X'' is a group action of a topological group ''G'' that is continuous: i.e.,
:G \times X \to X, \quad (g, x) \mapsto g \cdot x
is a continuous map. Together with the group action, ''X'' ...
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Semigroup action
In algebra and theoretical computer science, an action or act of a semigroup on a set is a rule which associates to each element of the semigroup a transformation of the set in such a way that the product of two elements of the semigroup (using t ...
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Ring Action (mathematics)
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Action (firearms)
In firearms terminology, an action is the functional mechanism of a breech-loading firearm that handles (loads, locks, fires, extracts and ejects) the ammunition cartridges, or the method by which that mechanism works. Actions are technicall ...
, the mechanism that manipulates cartridges and/or seals the breech
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Action! (programming language)
Action! is a procedural programming language and integrated development environment written by Clinton Parker for the Atari 8-bit family. The language, which is similar to ALGOL, compiles to high-performance code for the MOS Technologies 6502 ...
, for the Atari 8-bit family of microcomputers
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Action (UML)
In the Unified Modeling Language, an action is a named element that is the fundamental unit of executable functionality. The execution of an action represents some transformation or processing in the modeled system. An action execution represents ...
, in the Unified Modeling Language
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Dudek Action, a Polish paraglider design
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Diia
Diia (; also an acronym for ) is a mobile app, a web portal and a brand of e-governance in Ukraine.
Launched in 2020, the Diia app allows Ukrainian citizens to use digital documents in their smartphones instead of physical ones for identificatio ...
, a brand of e-governance in Ukraine
Other uses
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Action (philosophy), something which is done by a person
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Lawsuit or action
See also
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Action Force (disambiguation)
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Action Jackson (disambiguation) Action Jackson may refer to:
People
* Lamar Jackson (born 1997), American football quarterback
* William Jackson (gangster) (1920–1961), American gangster
Other uses
* ''Action Jackson'' (1988 film), an American action film
**'' Action Jackson ...
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Action Man (disambiguation)
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Action theory (disambiguation)
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Acteon (disambiguation)
Actaeon or Acteon (Ἀκτέων) was a hero in Greek mythology.
Actaeon or Acteon may also refer to:
Mythology
* Actaeon, son of Melissus, another mythical person, victim of Archias of Corinth
Arts and entertainment
* ''Acteón'' (film), 1965 ...
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Actaeon (disambiguation)
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Acción (disambiguation)
Acción (Spanish "action" or "share") or Accion may refer to:
* Acción Emprendedora, a non-profit organization based in Chile
* Accion International, a microfinance organization based in Boston
** Accion USA, the US branch of Accion Internation ...
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Structural load
A structural load or structural action is a force, deformation, or acceleration applied to structural elements. A load causes stress, deformation, and displacement in a structure. Structural analysis, a discipline in engineering, analyzes the ...
, forces, deformations, or accelerations applied to a structure or its components
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