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Action may refer to:

[edit] Music and culture

Action (philosophy), something a person can do
Action (music), a characteristic of a stringed instrument
Action (album), a 2004 album by Punchline
Action (B'z album), a 2007 album by B'z
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 trough the pipe when a key is pressed
Action (Song), former name of the single Feeling This, by the Pop Punk band 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 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) is a scale of combat within the hierarchy of combat^[1] of squads, platoons, companies and battalions.
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, a former United States government agency
Action Ambulance, an emergency care and ambulance service

[edit] Science and technology

Action (physics), an assertion about the nature of motion
Firearm action, a system of operation in a firearm
Structural load, as referred to in Eurocodes

Group action in mathematics
Action (UML), a specific piece of functionality in the Unified Modeling Language
Action programming language for Atari microcomputers
Struts Action, a key building block of web applications based on the Apache Struts framework.

[edit] Other

Sexual intercourse

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