Blast or The Blast may refer to: * Explosion, a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner *

Detonation Detonation () is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it. Detonations propagate supersonically through shock waves with s ...

, an exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front

Film

* ''Blast'' (1997 film), starring Andrew Divoff * ''Blast'' (2000 film), starring Liesel Matthews * ''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) Blast (stylized as BL'AST!) is an American punk rock band formed in 1983 in Santa Cruz, California. After breaking up in 1991, they reunited in 2001 and again in 2013. To date, Blast has released three original studio albums (the latest being ...

, 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) BLAST (BLocked ASynchronous Transmission), like XMODEM and Kermit, is a communications protocol designed for file transfer over asynchronous communication ports and dial-up modems that achieved a significant degree of popularity during the 1980s ...

, file transfer software *

BLAST (telescope) The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a submillimeter telescope that hangs from a high-altitude balloon. It has a 2-meter primary mirror that directs light into bolometer arrays operating at 250, 350, and 500 µ ...

, Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope *

BLAST (biotechnology) In bioinformatics, BLAST (basic local alignment search tool) is an algorithm and program for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid sequences of proteins or the nucleotides of DNA and/or RNA sequences. A BLA ...

, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, an algorithm used in bioinformatics *

Blast cell In cell biology, a precursor cell, also called a blast cell or simply blast, is a partially differentiated cell, usually referred to as a unipotent cell that has lost most of its stem cell properties. A precursor cell is also known as a proge ...

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 complex type of physical trauma resulting from direct or indirect exposure to an explosion *

BLAST network The BLAST network is a plan for a frequent rapid transit system in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It was conceived as part of the city's 2007 transportation master plan. It was later incorporated by Metrolinx as part of its regional transp ...

, a proposed rapid transit system for Hamilton, Ontario, Canada *

Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time Bell Laboratories Layer Space-Time (BLAST) is a transceiver architecture for offering spatial multiplexing over multiple-antenna wireless communication systems. Such systems have multiple antennas at both the transmitter and the receiver in an ef ...

, a transceiver architecture *

FreeX Blast The FreeX Blast is a German single-place, paraglider that was designed and produced by FreeX of Egling in the mid-2000s. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 18. P ...

, a German paraglider design

Other

* ''Blast!'' (comics), a 1991 British comic * ''Blast!'' (musical), a 2001 Broadway musical *

Blast! Entertainment Mastertronic Group Limited was a software publisher formed as a result of a merger between The Producers and Sold Out Sales & Marketing in 2004. Frank Herman, one of the founders of the original Mastertronic and former chairman of Sega Europe, ...

, a defunct video game developer and publisher * C. L. Blast (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 Turlock Transit is the primary bus agency serving residents and visitors to Turlock, the second-largest city in Stanislaus County, California (after the county seat, Modesto). It is operated by the city through its contractor Storer Transit Syste ...

in Turlock, California, US

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