Action
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{{wiktionary|action}}
'''Action''' may refer to:
====Music and culture====
* [[Action (philosophy)]], something a person can do
* [[Action (music)]], a characteristic of a stringed instrument
* [[Action (album)|''Action'' (album)]], a 2004 album by [[Punchline (band)|Punchline]]
* [[Action (B'z album)|''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
* [[Feeling This|"Action" (song)]], former name of the single "[[Feeling This]]", by the [[Pop punk|Pop Punk]] [[Band (music)|band]] [[Blink-182]]
* [[The Action]], a 1960s band
* [[Action (radio)|''Action'' (radio)]], a 1945 radio program aka ''Action Theater''
* [[Action (comic)|''Action'' (comic)]], a British comic book published in 1976-1977
* [[Action (TV series)|''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)|''Action'' (1921 film)]], a 1921 film directed by [[John Ford]]
* [[Action (newspaper)|''Action'' (newspaper)]], published by [[British Union of Fascists]]
====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
====Military====
* [[military action (combat)]] is a scale of combat within the hierarchy of combat<ref>p.65, Dupuy</ref> of [[squad]]s, [[platoon]]s, [[Company (military unit)|companies]] and [[battalion]]s.
* [[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
====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)|ACTION]], a former United States government agency
* [[Action Ambulance]], an emergency care and ambulance service
====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
* [[Apache Struts|Struts Action]], a key building block of web applications based on the [[Apache Software Foundation|Apache]] Struts framework.
====Other====
* [[Sexual intercourse]]
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