Epic commonly refers to: *

Epic poetry An epic poem, or simply an epic, is a lengthy narrative poem typically about the extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters who, in dealings with gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the mortal universe for their descendants. ...

, a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation *

Epic film Epic films are a style of filmmaking with large-scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle. The usage of the term has shifted over time, sometimes designating a film genre and at other times simply synonymous with big-budget filmmaking. Like epics in ...

, a genre of film with heroic elements Epic or EPIC may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Epic'' (1984 film) * ''Epic'' (2013 film)

Gaming

* ''Epic'' (game), a series of wargames * ''Epic'' (video game), a 1992 video game * ''Epic: Battle for Moonhaven'', a 2013 video game by

Gameloft Gameloft SE is a French video game publisher based in Paris, founded in December 1999 by Ubisoft co-founder Michel Guillemot. The company operates 18 development studios worldwide, and publishes games with a special focus on the mobile games m ...

based on the film ''Epic'' (2013) * ''

Epic Card Game Epic Card Game is a strategy card game created by Wise Wizard Games, the creators of Star Realms. It was released in 2015 after a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. Epic can be played with two or more players who act as gods in conf ...

'', a 2015 strategy card game by White Wizard Games

Literature

* ''Epic'' (Kostick novel), a 2004 novel by Conor Kostick * ''

Epic Illustrated ''Epic Illustrated'' was a comics anthology in magazine format published in the United States by Marvel Comics. Similar to the US-licensed comic book magazine '' Heavy Metal'', it allowed explicit content to be featured, unlike the traditional Am ...

'', a 1980s anthology series published by Marvel Comics

Music

Albums

* ''Epic'' (Blood on the Dance Floor album), 2011 * ''Epic'' (Borknagar album), 2004 * ''Epic'' (R. Kelly album), 2010 * ''Epic'' (Sharon Van Etten album), 2010 * ''Epic'' (Tang Dynasty album), 1998

Songs

* "Epic" (Faith No More song), 1990 * "Epic" (Sandro Silva & Quintino song), 2011 * "Epic" (Big Time Rush song), 2011 * "Epic", a song by Sentenced from ''

North from Here ''North from Here'' is the second album by the Finnish metal band Sentenced. Lyrics of the album deal with Sentenced's typical melancholy, but some also deal with the mythology and history of Finnish warfare and the national romantic epic of ''K ...

Genres

Epic fantasy High fantasy, or epic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy defined by the epic nature of its setting or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, or plot.Brian Stableford, ''The A to Z of Fantasy Literature'', (p. 198), Scarecrow Press, Pl ...

, a subgenre of fantasy literature *

Epic trance Uplifting trance (often synonymous with epic trance, energetic trance, anthem trance, emotional trance, or euphoric trance) is a broad subgenre of trance music. The name, which emerged in the wake of progressive trance in 1996, is derived from ...

, a subgenre of trance music

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Epic TV Epic TV is an Indian television channel that airs action, drama, comedy and narrative non-fiction and fictional programming with a focus on Indian history, folklore and epic genre. Launched by In10 Media Pvt. Ltd. on 19 November 2014, a compan ...

, an Indian Hindi-language TV channel *

Epic Comics Epic Comics (also known as the Epic Comics Group)Shooter, Jim. "Bullpen Bulletins: The Truth About the Epic Comics Group!" Marvel comics cover-dated November 1982. was an imprint of Marvel Comics from 1982 to 1996. A spin-off of the publisher's ...

, an imprint of Marvel Comics *

Epic Records Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America Sony Corporation of America (SONAM, also known as SCA), is the American arm of the Japanese conglomerate Sony Group ...

, a record label subsidiary of Sony

Brands and enterprises

* Epic, a telecommunications company owned by

Monaco Telecom Monaco Telecom is the main telecommunications provider in the Principality of Monaco. The company was founded in 1997 following a decision by the government of Monaco to privatize the state-owned Office Monégasque des Téléphones. Internati ...

Epic (Cyprus) Epic LTD (previously operating as MTN Cyprus), is a Cyprus based telecommunications services provider owned by Monaco Telecom. It is the second largest mobile network operator in Cyprus by number of subscribers, behind CYTA. In addition to its alr ...

, a telecommunications provider in Cyprus, formerly MTN Cyprus **

Epic (Malta) Epic Communications Limited (formerly Vodafone Malta and Telecell) is a Maltese mobile network operator, and the second largest mobile network in Malta by number of customers. The company offers a full range of Voice, SMS and mobile Data servi ...

, a telecommunications provider in Malta, formerly Vodafone Malta *

Epic Aircraft Epic Aircraft is a general aviation aircraft manufacturer headquartered in Bend, Oregon. The company produces the Epic E1000 GX single engine turboprop design. Founded in 2004, the company initially manufactured and sold kits for the Epic LT. ...

, an aircraft manufacturer in Bend, Oregon *

Epic Games Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, M ...

, an American video game company *

Epic Systems Epic Systems Corporation, or Epic, is an American privately held healthcare software company. According to the company, hospitals that use its software held medical records of 78% of patients in the United States and over 3% of patients worldwi ...

, a healthcare software company in Verona, Wisconsin *

Epics (company) is a Japanese video game developer, video game software developer located in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Originally established as “GEN CREATIVE HOUSE CO., LTD.” in February 1987, changed company name to “G-Artists Inc.” in March 1991, then t ...

, a Japanese video game developer *

Red Epic Red Digital Cinema (''Red Digital Cinema Camera Company'') is an American company that manufactures professional digital cinematography cameras and accessories. The company's headquarters is in Foothill Ranch, California, with studios in Hollyw ...

, a motion picture camera produced by Red Digital Cinema

Organizations

Education for Peace in Iraq Center The Enabling Peace in Iraq Center (EPIC) is a charitable organization that works with Iraqi civil society to provide relief, monitor Iraqi affairs to better inform public policy, and enhance understanding of Iraq's story. EPIC was founded by veteran ...

, a charitable organization located in Washington, D.C. *

El Paso Intelligence Center The El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) was established in 1974 in response to a study by the Justice Management Division of the U.S. Department of Justice entitled, "A Secure Border." Recommendation number 7 of this study suggested the establi ...

, a Drug Enforcement Agency building in El Paso, Texas * Electors Photo Identity Card, the standard form of voter ID in India *

Electronic Privacy Information Center Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is an independent nonprofit research center in Washington, D.C. EPIC's mission is to focus public attention on emerging privacy and related human rights issues. EPIC works to protect privacy, freedom o ...

, an independent non-profit research center *

End Poverty in California End Poverty in California (EPIC) was a political campaign started in 1934 by socialist writer Upton Sinclair (best known as author of ''The Jungle''). The movement formed the basis for Sinclair's campaign for Governor of California in 1934. The p ...

, a political movement led by Upton Sinclair *

Établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial An établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial (EPIC; ) is, in France, a category of public undertaking. It includes state-controlled entities of an industrial or commercial nature, including some research institutes and infrastru ...

, a type of public-sector body in France and other countries *

European Photonics Industry Consortium The European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) is a not-for-profit association with headquarters in Paris, France. EPIC serves the photonics community through a regular series of workshops, market studies and partnering. EPIC focuses its actio ...

, an association of photonics companies based in Paris *

Epic Energy Epic Energy is an Australian company that owns gas pipelines and wind farms. It has been a wholly owned subsidiary of QIC Global Infrastructure, an arm of the Queensland Investment Corporation, since 2013. Epic Energy owns and operates both the ...

, owner and operator of gas pipelines in South Australia

Places

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, located in Dublin's Docklands, covers the history of the Irish diaspora and emigration to other countries. It was designed by the London-based design firm Event Communications, and was voted as "Europe's Leadi ...

, located in Dublin's Docklands * Epic Residences & Hotel, a skyscraper in Downtown Miami completed in 2008 *

East Plano Islamic Center The East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) is a mosque located in Plano, Texas. The current building of the masjid opened in July 2015, although the mosque started a decade earlier. The current Imam is Nadim Bashir, and the current resident scholar is ...

, or EPIC Masjid, a mosque located in Plano, Texas * Eastside Preparatory Impact Center, a building focused on sustainability at

Eastside Preparatory School Eastside Preparatory School is an independent school for upper and middle school students. It is located in Kirkland, Washington, US. It is a secular, coed, college-preparatory school for grades 5– 12. The Head of School is Dr. Terry Macalus ...

, Kirkland, Washington * Energy Production and Infrastructure Center, at the

University of North Carolina at Charlotte The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte or simply Charlotte) is a public research university in Charlotte, North Carolina. UNC Charlotte offers 24 doctoral, 66 master's, and 79 bachelor's degree programs through nine colle ...

Exhibition Park in Canberra Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC) is a 70 hectare showground and multi-building venue for exhibitions, conferences, and events located in the suburb of Lyneham (though commonly listed in the adjacent Mitchell) in Canberra, Australia. Regul ...

, a large showground and multi-building venue in Australia

Technology

EPIC (form factor) Embedded Platform for Industrial Computing (EPIC) is a computer form factor, a standard for an industrial-quality single-board computer, in use from about 2004 through 2016. History The EPIC standard was developed by a combined effort from WinSy ...

, a single-board computer form factor based on the PC/104 **

EPIC Express PC/104 (or PC104) is a family of embedded computer standards which define both form factors and computer buses by the PC/104 Consortium. Its name derives from the 104 pins on the interboard connector ( ISA) in the original PC/104 specificatio ...

, an EPIC board with PCI Express capability *

Epic (web browser) Epic is a privacy-centric web browser. It was developed by Hidden Reflex, a software product company founded by Alok Bhardwaj, using Chromium (web browser), Chromium source code. Epic is always in private browsing mode, and exiting the browser de ...

* Epic, a large

user story In software development and product management, a user story is an informal, natural language description of features of a software system. They are written from the perspective of an end user or user of a system, and may be recorded on index ...

in software development and product management *

Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR; formerly known as Triana, unofficially known as GoreSat) is a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) space weather, space climate, and Earth observation satellite. It was launched by Space ...

, an earth-facing camera in the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite *

Electromagnetic Personal Interdiction Control Electromagnetic Personal Interdiction Control (E.P.I.C.) is a weapon of the U.S. Navy that works by sending out an electromagnetic pulse that affects the sense of balance (ability), balance and makes the target feel ill and throw up. This is a most ...

* Embedded Programmable Interrupt Controller *

EPICS The Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) is a set of software tools and applications used to develop and implement distributed control systems to operate devices such as particle accelerators, telescopes and other large sci ...

, a software environment for distributed control systems *

Evolutionary Process for Integrating COTS-Based Systems Commercial off-the-shelf or commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) products are packaged or canned (ready-made) hardware or software, which are adapted aftermarket to the needs of the purchasing organization, rather than the commissioning of ...

Explicitly parallel instruction computing Explicitly parallel instruction computing (EPIC) is a term coined in 1997 by the HP–Intel alliance to describe a computing paradigm that researchers had been investigating since the early 1980s. This paradigm is also called ''Independence'' ar ...

, a CPU architecture design philosophy

Other uses

Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog The Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog (or EPIC) is a publicly searchable database of stars and planets that is associated with the K2 "Second Light" plan of the Kepler space telescope mission. Examples of related stars include: EPIC 201563164, EPIC 2 ...

, a database of stars and planets *

Epic Mazur Bret Hadley "Epic" Mazur (born August 31, 1970) is an American vocalist, rapper, and record producer. He is best known as a founder and former frontman of the rap rock band Crazy Town. Early life Bret Mazur grew up in Brooklyn, New York before hi ...

(born 1970), an American rapper * EPIC, the term for a

ticker symbol A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. In short, ticker symbols are arrangements of symbols or characters (generally Latin letters ...

in the United Kingdom prior to 1996 * Epic morphism, or

epimorphism In category theory, an epimorphism (also called an epic morphism or, colloquially, an epi) is a morphism ''f'' : ''X'' → ''Y'' that is right-cancellative in the sense that, for all objects ''Z'' and all morphisms , : g_1 \circ f = g_2 \circ f \ ...

, a mathematical concept *

European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study is a Europe-wide prospective cohort study of the relationships between diet and cancer, as well as other chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease. With over half a ...

, a Europe-wide cohort study of diet and cancer * ''

Norwegian Epic ''Norwegian Epic'' is a cruise ship of the Norwegian Cruise Line built under that line's F3 Project by STX Europe Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France. When built she was the List of largest cruise ships, third largest cru ...

'', a cruise ship * Excellence in Prehospital Injury Care, a program at the

University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, located in Tucson, Arizona, is one of three MD granting medical schools in the state of Arizona, affiliated with the University of Arizona. The University of Arizona College of Medicine ...