Blast or The Blast may refer to: *

Explosion An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases. Supersonic explosions created by high explosives are known ...

, a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner * Detonation, an exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front

Film

* ''Blast'' (1997 film), starring

Andrew Divoff Andrew Daniel Divoff (born July 2, 1955) is a Venezuelan actor and producer.Lanyon, Mary-Justine"A 'Bad Guy' With a Heart of Gold", Lake Arrowhead Magazine (Winter 2015-16), pp. 41-43 retrieved June 30, 2020. Divoff has played many villains in ...

* ''Blast'' (2000 film), starring

Liesel Matthews Liesel Pritzker Simmons (born Liesel Anne Pritzker), stage name Liesel Matthews, is an American heiress and former child actress. She starred as Sara Crewe ''A Little Princess'' is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first publi ...

* ''Blast'' (2004 film), an action comedy film * ''Blast!'' (1972 film) or ''The Final Comedown'', an American drama * ''BLAST!'' (2008 film), a documentary about the BLAST telescope * '' A Blast'', a 2014 film directed by Syllas Tzoumerkas

Magazines

* ''Blast'' (magazine), a 1914–15 literary magazine of the Vorticist movement * ''Blast'' (U.S. magazine), a 1933–34 American short-story magazine * ''The Blast'' (magazine), a 1916–17 American anarchist periodical

Music

* Blast (American band), a hardcore punk band *

Blast (Russian band) Blast a Moscow-based band formed in the late 1990s by Georgian singer/songwriter Nash Tavkhelidze. He had previously spent a number of years in the US playing in different bands . In states he met Georgian musician Gia Iashvili they did ...

, an indie band * ''Blast'' (album), by Holly Johnson, 1989 * ''The Blast'' (album), by Yuvan Shankar Raja, 1999 * "The Blast" (song), by Reflection Eternal, 2001 * "Blast", a song by

Momoiro Clover Z is a Japanese idol girl group, commonly abbreviated as MCZ or . The four members of MCZ are known for energetic performances, incorporating elements of ballet, gymnastics, and action movies. MCZ is notable for being the first female group to ho ...

, 2017

Science and technology

* BLAST (protocol), file transfer software * BLAST (telescope), Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope * BLAST (biotechnology), Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, an algorithm used in bioinformatics * Blast cell or precursor cell, in cytology, a type of partially differentiated, usually unipotent cell *

Blast disease ''Magnaporthe grisea'', also known as rice blast fungus, rice rotten neck, rice seedling blight, blast of rice, oval leaf spot of graminea, pitting disease, ryegrass blast, Johnson spot, neck blast, wheat blast, and Imochi (Japanese:稲熱) is a ...

, a disease of cereal crops *

Blast injury A blast injury is a complex type of physical trauma resulting from direct or indirect exposure to an explosion. Blast injuries occur with the detonation of high-order explosives as well as the deflagration of low order explosives. These injurie ...

, a complex type of physical trauma resulting from direct or indirect exposure to an explosion * BLAST network, a proposed rapid transit system for Hamilton, Ontario, Canada * Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time, a transceiver architecture * FreeX Blast, a German paraglider design

Other

* ''Blast!'' (comics), a 1991 British comic * ''Blast!'' (musical), a 2001 Broadway musical * Blast! Entertainment, a defunct video game developer and publisher *

C. L. Blast Clarence Junior Lewis (August 20, 1934 – February 26, 2016), better known by his stage name C.L. Blast, was an American Soul music, soul singer. Lewis was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1934. His first record was "Your Heart Must Be Made of Sto ...

(1934–2016), recording name of Clarence Lewis * Bus Line Service of Turlock (BLAST), the former name for the public bus service operated by Turlock Transit in Turlock, California, US

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