Deluge
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A deluge is a large downpour of rain, or a flood.
- Prehistoric and mythical floods
- Noah's Flood, a narrative described in the Book of Genesis; see Noah and Noah's Ark
- Deluge (mythology), mythic floods in general, involving Gilgamesh, Noah or others
- Deluge (prehistoric), prehistoric great floods, some of which may have inspired the mythic floods above
- Polish history and culture
- The Deluge (Polish history), the Swedish occupation of Poland (1655-1660)
- Potop (novel) by Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Potop (movie) by Jerzy Hoffman
- Metaphorical use
The noun deluge or the verb to deluge are often used metaphorically to describe inundation:
- a 'deluge' of applications
- We've been 'deluged' with complaints.
- Other
- Deluge (movie) by Felix E. Feist
- Deluge M.A.S.H. (TV series) episode
- Deluge, a tool to program nodes of a Wireless Sensor Network running the TinyOS operating system in an infectious manner; see Delouge (TinyOS)
- Before The Deluge a Jackson Browne song from Late for the Sky
- Deluge (Bittorrent Client) a lightweight bittorrent client for Linux.
- Deluge system: Deluge systems are used for cooling of constructions during a fire situation [1]
