Blast or The Blast may refer to: *

Explosion An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases. Explosions may also be generated ...

, 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 ...

, an exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front *A planned explosion in a

mine Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to: Extraction or digging *Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging *Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine Grammar *Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun M ...

quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mining, open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock (geology), rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some juri ...

or other situation in order to fragment rock

Film

* ''Blast'' (1997 film), starring

Andrew Divoff Andrew Daniel Divoff (born July 2, 1955) is an American actor and producer. Divoff has played many villains in film and on television, including drug cartel leaders, terrorists, and organized crime bosses, though he is best known for playing the ...

* ''Blast'' (2000 film), starring

Liesel Matthews Liesel Pritzker Simmons (born Liesel Anne Pritzker), stage name Liesel Matthews, is an American heiress and former child actress. She starred as Sara Crewe in ''A Little Princess'', a 1995 film adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic, ...

* ''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'' (British 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 or The Blast may refer to: *Explosion, a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner * Detonation, an exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front *A planned explosion in a mine ...

, an indie band *

Blxst Matthew Dean Burdette (born September 17, 1992), known professionally as Blxst (pronounced "blast"), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer from Los Angeles, California. He signed with Red Bull Records to release his debu ...

, an American rapper * Blast, a Danish band with which

Hanne Boel Hanne Boel (born 31 August 1957 in Bagsværd, Copenhagen) is a Danish singer. Hanne Boel covers in her songs a range of styles including pop, soul, gospel, rock, and jazz. Over the course of her career, she has sold over 2.5 million records, an ...

performed * ''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 *

Blast beat A blast beat is a type of drum beat that originated in hardcore punk and grindcore, and is often associated with certain styles of extreme metal, namely black metal, death metal and their respective subgenres,Adam MacGregor, '' PCP Torpedo'' ...

, a type of drum beat

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 structure, primary biological sequence information, such as the amino acid, amino-acid sequences of proteins or the nucleotides of DNA ...

, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, an algorithm used in bioinformatics * Blast cell or precursor cell, in cytology, a type of partially differentiated, usually unipotent cell * Blast disease, a disease of cereal crops * Blast injury, a complex type of physical trauma resulting from direct or indirect exposure to an explosion * BLAST network, a proposed rapid transit system for Hamilton, Ontario, Canada * Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time, a transceiver architecture * FreeX Blast, a German paraglider design

Other

* Blast! (comics), ''Blast!'' (comics), a 1991 British comic * Blast! (musical), ''Blast!'' (musical), a 2001 Broadway musical * Blast! Entertainment, a defunct video game developer and publisher * C. L. Blast (1934–2016), recording name of Clarence Lewis * Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust * Bus Line Service of Turlock (BLAST), the former name for the public bus service operated by Turlock Transit in Turlock, California, US * Blast Premier, a ''Counter-Strike'' esports league * Blast TV, a Philippine Internet-based TV and streaming service

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