Flood (disambiguation)

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A flood is an overflow or accumulation of an expanse of water that submerges land.

Flood(s), The Flood, Flooded or Flooding may also refer to:

People and fictional characters

• Flood (surname), a surname (includes a list)

Computing

• Flood fill, an algorithm that determines the area connected to a given node in a multi-dimensional array
• Internet Relay Chat flood, a form of denial-of-service attack
• MAC flooding, a technique employed to compromise the security of network switches
• Network flood, a denial-of-service attack on a network
• Flooding (computer networking)

Media and entertainment

Religion

• Flood myth
• Genesis flood narrative, found in the first book of the Bible

Places

• Flood, British Columbia, Canada (officially Floods)
• Flood, California, U.S., a former settlement
• Flood, Virginia, U.S., an unincorporated community

Other

• Flood Magazine (stylized as FLOOD), a quarterly American entertainment publication
• Flood v. Kuhn, a U.S. Supreme Court decision
• Flooding (Australian football), a sports tactic
• Flooding (nuclear reactor core)
• Flooding (psychology), a psychotherapeutic technique

• Flooding algorithm, methods for distributing material in a graph
• Floodlight, an artificial light

See also

• Flooded engine, an engine fed too much or too rich fuel
• Fludd (disambiguation)