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Gas may refer to:
Science and technology: gases and liquids
- Gas, one of the phases of matter (Gases, or Gasses Plural)
- Gasoline, a refined fossil fuel, also called petrol
- Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), also called "cooking gas", which includes propane and butane
- Autogas, a type of LPG used in motor vehicles
- Natural gas, a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane
- The medical effects of gas being generated in the gastrointestinal tract:
- Gassing, destructive gas generation in batteries
- See Category:Gases for a list of gases
Science and technology: other meanings
- The GNU Assembler
Biological effects
- As an anaesthetic
- As a poison, see:
Entertainment
- Gas (film), a 2004 film starring Flex Alexander and Khalil Kain
- Gas (musician), an ambient music project by German producer Wolfgang Voigt
- Gas, the moniker used by British electronic music artist Mat Jarvis
- Gas-s-s-s, also called Gas! or It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It, a 1971 Roger Corman movie
- Gas (comic), a British adult comic
Other uses
- Gas, Eure-et-Loir, a commune in Eure-et-Loir, France
- Gas, Kansas, a town in the United States
- Bristol Rovers FC, an English professional football team so nicknamed for their original proximity to a local gasworks
- GAS, an Italian designer clothing label
- "Gas, gas, gas!", in military usage, a verbal warning of an imminent or occurring chemical weapon attack
- GAS (company), one of the SABIC subsidiaries.
- German -gasse or -gaße in street names means "lane".
- Slang for "diffuse or profuse talk"
As an acronym
GAS may stand for:
- The Children’s Global Assessment Scale, used by psychiatrists to assist with assessing children under 18
- Galpin Auto Sports, a customising garage featured on the television show Pimp My Ride
- The General Adaptation Syndrome, a model describing responses to stress
- Generalized Audit Software
- Getaway Special, an experiment bay on the Space Shuttle
- The Great American Songbook, a genre of American popular music
- Gunner's Auxiliary Sight, a backup targeting system for the main gun of the M1 Abrams tank
- Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids television network
- Streptococcus pyogenes, a bacterium commonly known as Group A Strep, or GAS
- A dynamical system can have a single globally asymptotically stable (GAS) equilibrium
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