Action 49801 219832710 2008-06-17T01:57:33Z Alan smithee 546086 italicized album titles, radio show titles, etc.; put song titles in double quotes {{TOCright}} {{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]] {{reflist}} {{disambig}} [[cs:Akce]] [[de:Aktion]] [[es:Acción]] [[fr:Action]] [[gl:Acción]] [[it:Azione]] [[ms:Aksi]] [[nl:Action]] [[ja:アクション]] [[pl:Akcja]] [[pt:Ação]] [[ro:Acţiune (dezambiguizare)]] [[ru:Акция]] [[sk:Akcia]] [[tl:Aksyon]]