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Action may refer to:
Music and culture
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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 byB'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 bandBlink-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 onFOX 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 byJohn Ford
* "Action" (newspaper), published byBritish Union of Fascists Politics and society
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Collective action , the provision of public goods through collaboration
*Direct action , an instance ofpolitical 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 actionMilitary
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military action (combat) is a scale of combat within the hierarchy of combat [p.65, Dupuy] ofsquad s,platoon s, companies andbattalion 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 pieceBusinesses and organizations
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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 servicecience and technology
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Action (physics) , an assertion about the nature of motion
*Firearm action , a system of operation in a firearm
*Structural load , as referred to inEurocodes *
Group action in mathematics
*Action (UML) , a specific piece of functionality in theUnified Modeling Language
*Action programming language forAtari microcomputers
* Struts Action, a key building block of web applications based on the Apache Struts framework.Other
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Sexual intercourse
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