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dynamo is a magnetic device originally used as an electric generator.
Dynamo or Dinamo may also refer to:
Places
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Dinamo (Moscow Metro)
Dinamo (russian: Дина́мо) is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya line. It opened on 11 September 1938 as part of the second stage of the system. It was named for the former Dinamo Stadium, the home stadium of FC Dynamo Moscow. P ...
, a station of the Moscow Metro, Moscow, Russia
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Dinamo (Yekaterinburg Metro)
Dinamo (russian: link=no, Динамо) is a station of the Yekaterinburg Metro which was opened on December 22, 1994. It is located between stations Uralskaya and Ploshchad 1905 Goda. Dinamo stadium and the "Uralochka" Palace of Sporting Games ...
, a station of the Yekaterinburg Metro, Yekaterinburg, Russia
People
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Dynamo (magician)
Steven Frayne (born 17 December 1982), better known by his stage name Dynamo, is a British magician born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. His television show '' Dynamo: Magician Impossible'' ran from July 2011 to September 2014, and saw him win th ...
, stage name of English magician Steven Frayne
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
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Dynamo (Fox Feature Syndicate)
Dynamo is a fictional superhero that appeared in comic books published by Fox Feature Syndicate. He originally appeared in ''Science Comics'' #1 (February 1940) under the name Electro. He appeared for the first time as Dynamo in ''Science Comi ...
, a 1940s comic book character
* Dynamo, a character from the
''Mega Man X'' series
* Dynamo, a comic book character and member of the ''
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents
''T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents'' is a fictional team of superheroes that appeared in comic books originally published by Tower Comics in the 1960s. They were an arm of the United Nations and were notable for their depiction of the heroes as everyday peop ...
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* Dynamo, one of the "stalkers" from the movie ''
The Running Man
Running Man may refer to:
Literature
* ''The Running Man'', a 1963 novel by Joan Carol Holly under the pseudonym J. Hunter Holly
* ''The Running Man'' (novel), a 1982 novel by Stephen King under the pseudonym Richard Bachman
* ''The Running Man' ...
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Captain Dynamo (comics)
Captain Dynamo (William WarnerThis was seen on his tombstone on the cover, back cover, and on Pages 14 & 15 of ''Dynamo 5'' #4.) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero, created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Fran Bueno, who first appe ...
, a fictional comic book superhero
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Crimson Dynamo, the name of several fictional characters in the Marvel Comics universe, most of whom have been supervillains
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Dynamo 5
Dynamo 5 is a fictional comic book superhero team created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Mahmud A. Asrar, which appears in an eponymous series published by Image Comics. The team first appeared in ''Dynamo 5'' #1 (Jan. 2007). The monthly ...
, a fictional superhero team appearing in the comic book of the same name
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Dynamo Duck Dynamo Duck (french: Saturnin le canard) was the main character in the children's series ''The Adventures of Dynamo Duck'', which aired on television in the early 1990s.
Overview
The origin of the series lies with the French film maker Jean Toura ...
, the main character in the children's television series ''The Adventures of Dynamo Duck''
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Dynamo Joe
''Dynamo Joe'' was a comic book series published by First Comics from 1986–1988. Created, plotted and drawn by Doug Rice, it was scripted first by John Ostrander then by Phil Foglio. Ben Dunn sometimes filled in for Rice on the art.
The series ...
'', a 1980s comic book series
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DynaMo, a 1998 BBC educational character
Music
Albums
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''Dynamo'' (Avengers in Sci-Fi album), a 2010 album by Japanese electro-rock band Avengers in Sci-Fi
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''Dynamo'' (Soda Stereo album), a 1992 album by Argentine rock band Soda Stereo
Other music
* Dynamo, a collaboration project of Muriel Moreno and Marc Collin of
Nouvelle Vague
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Dynamo Open Air, an annual heavy metal music festival held in the Netherlands
Other arts, entertainment, and media
* ''
DynaMo'', a 1998 British educational programme and website
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''Dynamo'' (play), a 1929 play by Eugene O'Neill
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''Captain Dynamo'' (video game), a platform game developed by Codemasters and released for the Commodore Amiga and other platforms in 1993
Brands and enterprises
* Dynamo, a brand of laundry detergent, owned by
Colgate-Palmolive
Colgate-Palmolive Company is an American multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company specializes in the production, distribution, and provision of household, health car ...
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Dynamo Corporation
Valley-Dynamo, Inc. is a gaming and sporting goods manufacturing company. It has been the dominant manufacturer of coin-operated Billiard table, pool tables in North America for over 6 decades, and produces the US-ubiquitous Valley brand and decrea ...
, American manufacturer of pool and air hockey tables
Science, engineering, and technology
Astrophysics
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Dynamo theory, a theory relating to magnetic fields of celestial bodies
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Solar dynamo
The solar dynamo is a physical process that generates the Sun's magnetic field. It is explained with a variant of the dynamo theory. A naturally occurring electric generator in the Sun's interior produces electric currents and a magnetic field, f ...
, the physical process that generates the Sun's magnetic field
Software
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DYNAMO (programming language), a simulation language
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Dynamo (storage system)
Dynamo is a set of techniques that together can form a highly available key-value structured storage system or a distributed data store. It has properties of both databases and distributed hash tables (DHTs). It was created to help address some s ...
, a distributed data store
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Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database service that supports key–value and document data structures and is offered by Amazon.com as part of the Amazon Web Services portfolio. DynamoDB exposes a similar data model to and ...
, a storage system
Sports
Association football clubs
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Dinamo Zagreb
Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb ( en, Dinamo Zagreb Citizens' Football Club, link=yes, italics=yes), commonly referred to as GNK Dinamo Zagreb or simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional football club based in Zagreb. Dinamo ...
, a Croatian football club
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Dynamo FC (disambiguation)
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FC Dinamo București
Fotbal Club Dinamo București (), commonly known as Dinamo București or simply Dinamo, is a Romanian professional association football, football club based in Bucharest.
Founded in 1948, they have spent almost List of unrelegated association f ...
, a Romanian football club
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FC Dynamo Kyiv
Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society, the club as a separate business entity was offici ...
, a Ukrainian football club
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Houston Dynamo FC, an American soccer club
Basketball teams
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BC Dynamo Moscow
MBC Dynamo Moscow (russian: МБК Динамо Москва) was a Russian basketball team from Moscow. It was active for 93 years (from 1923 until 2016) as professional club, before being dissolved due to financial problems. The club had sever ...
, a Russian basketball team
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BC Dynamo Saint Petersburg, a Russian basketball team
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BC Dinamo Tbilisi, a Georgian basketball team
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Dinamo Basket Sassari, an Italian basketball team
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CS Dinamo București (basketball)
BC Dinamo București or Dinamo Știința București, formerly known as Dinamo-Erbașu or Dinamo Gealan, is a Romanian professional basketball club, based in Bucharest, Romania.
History
Part of one of the biggest sports organizations in Romania, ...
, a Romanian basketball team
Ice hockey teams
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Dinamo Riga
Dinamo Riga ( lv, Rīgas Dinamo) is a professional ice hockey team based in Riga, Latvia. It is a member of the Latvian Hockey Higher League. The club is affiliated with HK Zemgale/LLU.
The club was re-founded on 7 April 2008 as a successor of ...
, an ice hockey team
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HC Dynamo Minsk
Hockey Club Dinamo Minsk (russian: Дина́мо-Минск; be, Дынама-Мінск, ''Dynama-Minsk'') is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Dinamo has qu ...
, an ice hockey team
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HC Dinamo Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow () is a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Moscow. It is a member of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.
Dynamo has won the Gagarin Cup twice, in 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons, and have won the ...
, an ice hockey team
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HC Dinamo Saint Petersburg
Hockey Club Dinamo Saint Petersburg (russian: link=no, Хоккейный клуб "Динамо" Санкт-Петербург), is a Russian professional ice hockey club based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. They are members of the Supreme Hockey ...
, an ice hockey team
Multi-sports clubs
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Dynamo Sports Club, a multi-sports club of the Soviet Union
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SC Dynamo Berlin
The Sports Club Dynamo Berlin was an East German sports club that existed from 1954 to 1991. It was the largest sports club of SV Dynamo, the sports association of the security agencies. The club was disbanded after German reunification and even ...
, a multi-sportsclub in East Berlin, affiliated to SV Dynamo
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SV Dynamo, a multi-sports association of the German Democratic Republic
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CS Dinamo București
CS Dinamo București is a Romanian sports society based in Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast ...
, a multi-sports association of Ministry of Internal Affairs from Romania
Other sports
* Durham Dynamos, the limited overs team of
Durham County Cricket Club
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Dynamo Kazan Bandy Club
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Dynamo Moscow (bandy club)
Dynamo Moscow Bandy Club (russian: Динамо клуб по хоккею с мячом, Москва) is a Russian Bandy club from Moscow which was founded in 1923.
The bandy team plays in the new Ice Palace Krylatskoye in the outskirts of M ...
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Dynamo Moscow (women's volleyball)
WVC Dinamo Moscow (russian: ЖВК Динамо Москва) is a Russian women's volleyball club based in Moscow which is currently playing in the Super League. It was established in 1926 and dissolved in 1992, but was reestablished in 2004. I ...
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Dynamo Leningrad (bandy club)
Dynamo Leningrad (russian: Динамо Ленинград) was a bandy club which existed from 1924-1965 in Saint Petersburg. During that time, Saint Petersburg was called Leningrad.
The club won the bronze medals in the Soviet Union champi ...
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Futsal Dinamo
MNK Futsal Dinamo is a Croatian professional futsal club from Zagreb, established on 21st March 2012. Futsal Dinamo is a List of fan-owned sports teams, fan owned club. Members of the club elect their leadership through democratic elections and t ...
, a Croatian futsal team
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CS Dinamo București (men's handball)
Clubul Sportiv Dinamo București is a Romanian handball club based in Bucharest, that competes in the Liga Națională, the top flight of Romanian handball. Nicknamed "the Red Dogs", the club was founded in 1948. The club's home ground is the ...
, a Romanian handball team
Stadiums
Belarus
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Dinamo Stadium (Minsk), Belarus
Romania
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Dinamo Stadium (Bucharest)
Dinamo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Bucharest, Romania. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Dinamo București.
History
The stadium was built in 1951. First match played here was Dinamo – Locomo ...
, Romania
Russia
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Dynamo Sports Palace
Dynamo Palace of Sports (russian: Дворец спорта «Динамо») is an indoor sporting arena located in Khovrino District, Moscow, Russia. The capacity of the arena is 5,000. It was built during the preparations for the 1980 Summer ...
, an indoor sporting arena in Moscow
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Dynamo Stadium (Moscow)
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Dynamo Stadium (Bryansk)
Dynamo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Bryansk, Russia. It was built in 1924, refitted in 1960 and 2004 years. Stadium is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Dynamo Bryansk. The stadium holds up to 10,1 ...
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Dynamo Stadium (Vladivostok)
The Dynamo Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Vladivostok, Russia. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Luch Vladivostok
FC Luch Vladivostok (russian: Футбольный клуб "Луч" Влад ...
Ukraine
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Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium
The Stadion Dynamo imeni Valeria Lobanovskoho is a multi-functional stadium in Kyiv, Ukraine that is modified for football use only.
It is the home stadium of FC Dynamo Kyiv yet not the main stadium, for which Dynamo uses the bigger NSC Olym ...
, Kyiv, Ukraine
Uzbekistan
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Dynamo Samarkand Stadium, Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Other uses
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Dynamo (typeface)
"Dynamo Electric Machine" (end view, partly section, )
A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos were the first electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundat ...
, a typeface designed by K. Sommer for Ludwig & Mayer in 1930
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Dunwich Dynamo, an annual bicycle ride from London to Dunwich, England
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Jugendkulturhaus Dynamo
(), also known as the , is a youth center in Zürich, Switzerland. The space hosts workshops, concerts, and plays. It also includes a restaurant and club.
History
The Drahtschmidli opened as a spa on the Limmat in 1772. When he inherited it, W ...
, a cultural center for youth in Zürich
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Operation Dynamo
Operation or Operations may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
* ''Operation'' (game), a battery-operated board game that challenges dexterity
* Operation (music), a term used in musical set theory
* ''Operations'' (magazine), Multi-Man ...
, the World War II mass evacuation of Allied soldiers from Dunkirk
* In physics,
dynamo theory is a mechanism by which a celestial body generates a magnetic field
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