Ash
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Ash may refer to:
[edit] In the sciences
- Ash, the unburnable solid remains of a fire; or the residual debris produced by incineration
- Volcanic ash, rocky powder material ejected from a volcano
- Fly ash and bottom ash, coal-combustion products
- Ash (analytical chemistry), one of the components in the proximate analysis of biological materials, consisting mainly of carbonates and bicarbonates of metals
- Ash tree, any tree of the genus Fraxinus
- Mountain ash, any of a set of various trees generally not in the Fraxinus genus
[edit] As an acronym (often in upper-case as "ASH")
- Almquist shell (ash), a command-line interface for computers running some variants of the Unix operating system
- Alt.suicide.holiday, a Usenet newsgroup for people contemplating suicide
- Ash railway station (National Rail code: ASH), a rail station near Guildford, United Kingdom
- Action on Smoking and Health, one of various organizations using this name world-wide and campaigning to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco
- American Society of Hematology: http://www.hematology.org
- ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat, a tactical role-playing game for the Nintendo DS
- Active Session History, an Oracle database subsystem, introduced at version 10g for tuning and diagnostics
- ASH, the ICAO code for Mesa Airlines
- ASH, the NATO reporting name of the Bisnovat R-4 air-to-air missile
- ASH, the airport code for Boire Field in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA
- The American School of the Hague
- Averaged Shifted Histogram
[edit] In the humanities
[edit] Music
- Ash (band), a Northern Ireland rock-band
- Ash (metal band), an American black metal band
[edit] Linguistics
- Æ, a letter used in Old English texts and commonly called "ash"
- near-open front unrounded vowel, the sound that æ (lowercase ash) corresponds to in the International Phonetic Alphabet
[edit] Media
- Ash (comic), created by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti, published by Event Comics
[edit] People and figures
- For the surname, see Ash.
- Aishwarya Rai, actress from India, popularly known by her nickname: "Ash"
- Ash (director), Ashley 'Ash' Baron-Cohen, film director usually credited as "Ash"
- Ash (band), Northern Irish band
- Ash (god), a hawk-god of the Sahara Desert in Egyptian mythology
- Ash (wrestler), a Canadian wrestler commonly known as "the Antihero" or "the Canadian Casanova"
Fictional characters:
- Ash Ketchum, the main character of the Pokémon anime
- Ash Williams, the anti-hero of the Evil Dead film-series
- Ash, the phantom guardian of Marona in Phantom Brave
- Science Officer Ash, the science-officer of the Nostromo in the 1979 film Alien
- Ash Crimson, the latest main character in the King of Fighters game-series
- Ashe, a character in Final Fantasy XII
- Ash, the protagonist of Avalon
- Ash, a dragon-character in the video-game Kameo: Elements of Power""
- Ash, the protagonist of the novel Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
- Ash Upton, a protagonist of the comic Misfile
[edit] Places
[edit] In the United Kingdom
- Ash-cum-Ridley, near Sevenoaks, Kent, England
- Ash (near Sandwich), Kent, England
- Ash, Derbyshire, England
- Ash (near Taunton), Somerset, England
- Ash (near Yeovil), Somerset, England
- Ash, Surrey, England
- Ash (near Salway), Dorset, England
- Ash (near Stourpaine), Dorset, England
- Ash, Devon, England
[edit] In the United States
- Ash, Texas in Houston County, Texas
- Ash, Missouri in Monroe County, Missouri
- Ash, North Carolina in Brunswick County, North Carolina
- Ash, Ohio in Licking County, Ohio
- Ash, Washington in Walla Walla County, Washington
- Ash, Oregon in Douglas County, Oregon
- Ash, West Virginia in Mason County, West Virginia
- Ash, Georgia in Paulding County, Georgia
[edit] See also
Look up ash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Ash (surname)
- Ash Wednesday
- Ashe
- Ashes
- Ashley ("Ash" for short)
