Flash

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Flash may mean:

Flash (photography), bright, transisient, illumination in order to photograph in low light conditions.
Flash (telecommunication), a message with extremely high precedence.
Flash (musician), the bass player for the glam rock group Wig Wam.
Flash (noseband), a type of noseband used on the bridle of a horse.
Flash (muppet), a saxophone playing Muppet.
Flash (novel), a science fiction novel by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Flash (tattoo), a generic (non-custom) tattoo art form.
Flash (comics), any of a number of comic book superheroes, who share the ability to run at superhuman speed.
Flash (song), a song by Queen about Flash Gordon.
Flash Gordon, a comic hero and space traveller from the 25th century.
Flash Thompson, classmate of Peter Parker (Spiderman).
Flash, Staffordshire is reputedly the highest village in England.
"Flash" is the abbreviated, popular name for Pennington Flash Country Park, a renowned birdwatching area in the North West of England.

Flash memory, a form of rewritable memory that holds its content without maintaining a power supply.
Flashing is the process of writing to or updating flash memories such as the BIOS found on computer motherboards or the rewritable cartridges used by developers of software for video game consoles.

Macromedia Flash, a graphics animation computer software product.
Indecent exposure, to flash one's nude body in public at another unsuspecting person.
Streaking, the practice of running around in public places nude.
In retail, flashing is getting rid of gaps on shelves, products are brought from the back of the shelf to the front to create a 'fuller' shelf. Also known as "fronting".

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