Action

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Action may refer to:

Contents 1 Music and culture 2 Politics and society 3 Military 4 Businesses and organizations 5 Science and technology 6 Other

[edit] Music and culture

• Action (philosophy), something a person can do
• Action (music), a characteristic of a stringed instrument
• Action (Punchline album), a 2004 album by Punchline
• Action (B'z album), a 2007 album by B'z
• Action, a 1967 album by the band ? and the Mysterians
• Action (piano), the mechanism which drops the hammer on the string when a key is pressed
• Tracker action (organ), the mechanism which lets the wind flows through the pipe when a key is pressed
• "Action" (song), a 1976 song by the band Sweet
• "Action", the former name of the single "Feeling This", by Blink-182
• The Action, a 1960s band
• Action (radio), a 1945 radio program aka Action Theater
• Action (comic), a British comic book published in 1976-1977
• Action (TV series), a short-lived comedy series that aired on FOX during the 1999-2000 season
• Action painting, a style of painting
• Action (fiction), a genre in various formats, specifically:
  • Action film, a movie genre
  • Action game, a computer/video game genre
• Action (1921 film), a 1921 film directed by John Ford
• Action (newspaper), published by British Union of Fascists

[edit] Politics and society

• Collective action, the provision of public goods through collaboration
• Direct action, an instance of political activism
• Social action, which takes into account actions and reactions of other individuals
• Strike action, a deliberate absence from work
• Lawsuit, sometimes called a civil action

[edit] Military

• military action (combat), a scale of combat within the hierarchy of combat
• action (naval) term used to refer to preparing and engaging a ship in combat
• action (signal) signal number 13 'Prepare for Action' in the British Royal Navy since the late 18th century
• action (gunnery) term refers to the movement of the breach in an artillery ordnance piece

[edit] Businesses and organizations

• Action (supermarkets), an Australian supermarket chain
• ACTION (Australian Capital Territory Internal Omnibus Network), a public transport company
• ACTION (U.S. government agency), a former United States government agency
• Action Ambulance, an emergency care and ambulance service

[edit] Science and technology

• Action (physics), an attribute of the development of a system over a period of time
• Firearm action, a system of operation in a firearm
• In pan-European building codes (Eurocodes), a concept similar to Structural load
• Group action in mathematics
• Action (UML), a specific piece of functionality in the Unified Modeling Language
• Action programming language for Atari microcomputers
• Actions, a key building block of web applications based on the Apache Struts framework

[edit] Other

• Sexual intercourse
• Action (novel)

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