Boom

Pole or spar application

• Boom (sailing)
  Boom (sailing)
  In sailing, a boom is a spar , along the foot of a fore and aft rigged sail, that greatly improves control of the angle and shape of the sail. The primary action of the boom is to keep the foot of the sail flatter when the sail angle is away from the centerline of the boat. The boom also serves...
  
  , spar at the foot of a sail on a sailboat
• Boom (windsurfing)
  Boom (windsurfing)
  A boom ,in the context of windsurfing, is a piece of equipment that attaches to the mast, providing structural support for the sail. Early booms were tied on to the mast, using rope, but most newer booms use a clamp mechanism for attachment. Booms are commonly made from aluminum, or carbon fibre,...
  
  , a wishbone shaped piece of windsurfing equipment
• Boom barrier
  Boom barrier
  A boom barrier is a bar, or pole pivoted in such a way as to allow the boom to block vehicular access through a controlled point. Typically the tip of a boom gate rises in a vertical arc to a near vertical position. Boom gates are often counterweighted, so the pole is easily tipped...
  
  , a barrier used to block vehicular access through a controlled point
• Boom operator (media)
  Boom operator (media)
  A Boom operator is an assistant of the production sound mixer. The principal responsibility of the boom operator is microphone placement, sometimes using a "fishpole" with a microphone attached to the end and sometimes, when the situation permits, using a "boom" which is a more intricate and...
  
  , an assistant to the production sound mixer
• Log boom
  Log boom
  A log boom is a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forests sometimes called a fence or bag. The term is also used as a place where logs were collected into booms, as at the mouth of a river...
  
  , a barrier placed in a river, designed to collect and/or contain floating logs timbered from nearby forests
• Boom, mechanical arm on a microphone stand
  Microphone stand
  A microphone stand is a free-standing mount for a microphone. It allows the microphone to be positioned in the studio, on stage or on location without requiring a person to hold it....
  
  
• The arm of a crane
  Crane (machine)
  A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally. It uses one or more simple machines to create mechanical advantage and thus move loads beyond the normal capability of...
  
  
• The arm of a backhoe
  Backhoe
  A backhoe, also called a rear actor or back actor, is a piece of excavating equipment or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm. They are typically mounted on the back of a tractor or front loader...
  
  
• Boom, rear fuselage of an aircraft as in Twin boom
  Twin boom
  Twin-boom aircraft have their tailplanes and vertical stabilizers mounted on the tail of either two fuselages or on two booms fixed to either both sides of the single fuselage, the wings or the engine nacelles.The reason for this design choice may be:...
  
  
• Boom operator (military)
  Boom operator (military)
  In the USAF the position of boom operator is a position held by an enlisted aviator, who is responsible for safely and effectively refueling other aircraft while in flight. The official Air Force title for boom operators is "In-Flight Refueling Technician" but this title is usually reserved for...
  
  , a controller of in-flight refueling

Television and films

• BOOMTV, a proposed Canadian premium television service
• Boom! (1968 film)
  Boom! (1968 film)
  Boom! is a 1968 British drama film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Noël Coward. It was directed by Joseph Losey and adapted from Tennessee Williams' play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore.-Plot:...
  
  , directed by Joseph Losey and based on The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore by Tennessee Williams
• Boom (2003 film)
  Boom (2003 film)
  Boom is a Bollywood film that was released on 19 September 2003. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Gulshan Grover, Padma Lakshmi, Madhu Sapre, Katrina Kaif and Zeenat Aman. The film is directed by Kaizad Gustad and produced by Jackie Shroff's wife, Ayesha Shroff...
  
  , a Bollywood film directed by Kaizad Gustad
• Boom (Power Rangers), a character from Power Rangers: S.P.D.
• "Boom" (CSI), a first-season episode of C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation
• Boom! (TV series)
  Boom! (TV series)
  Boom! was an American reality television series that aired on Spike TV in 2005. It featured a group of demolition experts using explosives to destroy objects such as trailers, houses, boats and cars. Often, the suggestions on what should be blown up were sent in by home viewers via a "BOOM! Mailbag"...
  
  , an American reality television series

Songs

• "Boom" (Anastacia song)
• "Boom" (Anjulie song)
• "Boom", a song by the Bloodhound Gang
• "Boom" (Flight of the Conchords song)
• "Boom" (Mario song)
  Boom (Mario song)
  "Boom" is an R&B single by Mario featuring Juvenile. It is the fourth and final single from his second studio album Turning Point. The single was released on October 3, 2005. The song it was produced by Lil Jon and written by Lamarquis Jefferson, Lil Jon, Johnta Austin, Craig Love and Juvenile...
  
  
• "Boom" (P.O.D. song)
  Boom (P.O.D. song)
  "Boom" is the third single off P.O.D.'s second major label studio album Satellite. While it did not chart as well as the album's previous singles, the song has appeared significantly in film and television...
  
  
• "Boom" (Royce da 5'9" song)
• "Boom!" (song), by System of a Down
• "Boom Boom Pow
  Boom Boom Pow
  "Boom Boom Pow" is a song by The Black Eyed Peas released as the lead single from their fifth studio album, The E.N.D. The song uses the auto-tune vocal effect, and blends the genres of Electro-rap, dance-pop, electro hop and hip hop....
  
  ", a 2009 song by the Black Eyed Peas
• "Boom! Shake the Room
  Boom! Shake the Room
  "Boom! Shake The Room" is the second single taken from DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's fifth studio album, Code Red, released in 1993. The song became the duo's first number one in the United Kingdom, as well as reaching #13 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of their last significant...
  
  ", a 1993 song by Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
• "Boom" (Snoop Dogg song)
  Boom (Snoop Dogg song)
  "Boom" is a song by West Coast rapper Snoop Dogg and serves as the second official single from his eleventh studio album Doggumentary. The song features Grammy-winning artist T-Pain and was produced by Scott Storch...
  
  
• Boom (Sin song)
• "Boom" (T-Pain song)
  Boom (T-pain Song)
  "Boom" is a special collaboration single with Filip Filippi, better known as Sin Sizzerb, a Serbian-American Rapper. It was part of the repackaged album of T-pain's Three Ringz album, intended to be sold and distributed to USA and Serbia.-Chart positions:...
  
  

Other

• Boom!!, a vocal band founded by Hear'Say member Johnny Shentall
  Johnny Shentall
  Johnny Shentall was a member of the British pop group Boom!! and then later became a member Hear'say in 2002 having replaced Kym Marsh...
  
  
• Boom Festival
  Boom Festival
  The Boom Festival is a biennial festival which takes place in Portugal.The festival features music, paint, sculpture, video art, installations cinema, theater and a concept of crosspollination of different art forms....
  
  , an electronic music festival
• Boom Gaspar
  Boom Gaspar
  Kenneth E. Gaspar , more commonly known as Boom Gaspar, is an American musician who has performed with the American rock band Pearl Jam as a piano/keyboard/organ player since 2002.-Early life:...
  
  , piano/keyboard/organ player for the band Pearl Jam

Sports and games

• Lars Boom
  Lars Boom
  Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom is a professional cyclo-cross and road racing cyclist who was born in Vlijmen in the Netherlands. Boom rides for UCI ProTeam Rabobank cycling team, having previous ridden for the junior and continental teams. Boom won the cyclo-cross world championships in 2008...
  
   (born 1985), Dutch cyclist, 2008 men's champion of UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships
• Boom (source port), a source port of the computer game Doom
• "Boom!", a word often used by National Football League commentator John Madden

Places

• Boom, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium
• Boom Gorge
  Boom Gorge
  Boom Gorge is an antecedent gorge in Chuy Province and Issyk-Kul Province of Kyrgyzstan. From the Russian spelling, the English pronunciation would be 'boh-ohm'....
  
  , a gorge on the Chu River in Kyrgyzstan
• Boom, Texas, former name of Summerfield, Texas

Other uses

• Boom (play)
  Boom (play)
  boom is a play by Peter Sinn Nachtreib which premiered in 2008 at Ars Nova in New York, New York.-Plot summary:Jules, a grad student in marine biology, and Jo, a journalism student, meet one Saturday night in Jules’s small underground laboratory on a university campus, after Jo answers Jules’s...
  
  , a play by Peter Sinn Nachtreib
• Boom (containment)
  Boom (containment)
  A containment boom is a "temporary floating barrier used to contain an oil spill. Booms are used to reduce the possibility of polluting shorelines and other resources, and to help make recovery easier. Booms help to concentrate oil in thicker surface layers so that skimmers, vacuums, or other...
  
  , a temporary floating barrier used to contain an oil spill
• Economic boom, time of rapid growth in wealth, as in a boom town
• Latin American Boom
  Latin American Boom
  The Latin American Boom was a literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s when the work of a group of relatively young Latin American novelists became widely circulated in Europe and throughout the world...
  
  , a major current in Latin American literature in the second half of the 20th century
• Sonic boom
  Sonic boom
  A sonic boom is the sound associated with the shock waves created by an object traveling through the air faster than the speed of sound. Sonic booms generate enormous amounts of sound energy, sounding much like an explosion...
  
  
• Boom! (novel)
  Boom! (novel)
  Boom! is a children's science fiction novel by Mark Haddon published in 2009. It is the revised version of Mark Haddon's Gridzbi Spudvetch!, which was published in 1992.-Plot summary:...
  
  , a 2009 children's science fiction novel by Mark Haddon
• Boom, nickname for Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
  Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
  Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard GCB OM GCVO DSO was a British officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force...
  
  
• "Boom!" Catchphrase of mentally handicapped British crime lord 'Bob H' in Sydney based TV series Underbelly
  Underbelly (TV series)
  Underbelly is a 13-part Australian television mini-series that retells the real events of the 1995–2004 gangland war in Melbourne, and is the first series in the larger Underbelly Franchise. It depicts the key players in Melbourne's criminal underworld, including the Carlton Crew and their rival,...
  
  
• Boom (entertainer)
  Boom (entertainer)
  Lee Min Ho , better known as Boom , is a South Korean rapper, singer, actor, radio host, and television presenter.He has made numerous Television appearances in South Korean comedy shows and has acted in sitcoms as well....
  
   (born 1982), South Korean entertainer
• Boom! Studios
  Boom! Studios
  BOOM! Studios is an American comic book company headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States. The "BOOM!" in BOOM! Studios is always capitalized by the company.-History:BOOM! was founded June 22, 2005 with Zombie Tales #1....
  
  , an independent comic book company
• Boom (ship)
  Boom (ship)
  A boom , known as dhangi in India, is a medium-sized deep-sea dhow, a traditional Arabic sailing vessel.This type of dhow has two masts with lateen sails. a stern that is tapering in shape and a more symmetrical overall structure than other dhow types...
  
  , a type of dhow (Arab sailing vessel)
• Boom FM
  Boom FM
  Boom FM is a branding of classic hits radio stations broadcasting in Canada. The network and its stations are operated by Astral Media.Boom FM was first launched on May 1, 2003 as a network of French-language oldies stations, and originally included CFEI-FM and CHRD-FM...
  
  , a branding of classic hits radio stations broadcasting in Canada

See also

• Boum (disambiguation)
• Bang (disambiguation)
• Boom Boom (disambiguation)
• "Boom Boom Boom", a 1995 dance song by The Outhere Brothers
• "Boom Boom Boom Boom
  Boom Boom Boom Boom
  "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!" is a song by the Dutch Eurodance group Vengaboys. It was released as a single on 14 June 1999. It topped the UK Singles Chart on 26 June 1999. The song is not based on Paul Lekakis's "Boom Boom ", from 1987, despite similar lyrics.In the UK, the song is the Vengaboys'...
  
  ", a 1999 song by the Dutch Eurodance group Vengaboys