Reach
Encyclopedia
Companies and organizations
- Reach Global ServicesReach Global ServicesReach Global Services Ltd. is a subsidiary of Telstra International. Reach, headquartered in Hong Kong, has interests in more than 40 submarine cables and international satellite systems, mainly servicing the Asia Pacific area...
Ltd, a company operating a large cable network in Asia Pacific - Reach for the TopReach for the TopReach for the Top is a Canadian game show in which teams of high school students participate in local, provincial and eventually national trivia tournaments...
, a Canadian high-school trivia competition - Reach CanadaReach CanadaReach Canada is a Non Governmental Organization that helps people with all types of disabilities obtain a lawyer referral. It is dedicated to educating and informing people with disabilities, lawyers and the general public about the rights and interests of persons with disabilities through...
, a NGO in Canada, that help people with disabilities - Reach Skilled VolunteeringReach Skilled VolunteeringReach is the skilled volunteering charity.- About the Charity :Reach aims to boost the resources of the voluntary sector by providing volunteers with the right skills and experience. It was set up in 1979 to provide the voluntary sector with skilled volunteers who have a professional, business or...
, a third sector organisation in the United Kingdom - Rural Earthship Alternative Community Habitat (REACH), in the USA
European Union law
- Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), European Union regulation that replaces a number of European Directives and Regulations with a single system
Video games
- Halo: ReachHalo: ReachHalo: Reach is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 console. Reach was released in North America, Australia, and Europe on September 14, 2010. The game takes place in the year 2552, where humanity is locked in a war with the...
, a 2010 video game in the Halo series set on the fictional planet Reach - Reach, a nickname of Park Jung SukPark Jung SukPark Jung Suk a.k.a. Reach or [Oops]Reach is a professional South Korean StarCraft player.Park, who also goes by the usernames Six_Devil_nO.1, ChoGoSy or TechniCal, is recognized as one of the best Protoss players in the world, an accomplishment for which he has been nicknamed "Hero Toss"...
, professional StarCraft player
Music
- Reach (S Club 7 song)Reach (S Club 7 song)"Reach" is a song by S Club 7, released as a single on 22 May 2000. "Reach" is an up-tempo track co-written by Cathy Dennis and Andrew Todd .. The lyrics were probably inspired by a Shirley Bassey double A-side of "Reach For The Stars" and "Climb Every Mountain" although the song itself sounds...
, a 2000 song by the pop group S Club 7 - Reach (Meredith Edwards album)Reach (Meredith Edwards album)Reach is the debut album by American country music artist Meredith Edwards. It was released in 2001 by Mercury Nashville and peaked at #24 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart...
, a 2001 album by country music artist Meredith Edwards - Reach (Survivor album), a 2006 album by the rock band Survivor
- Reach (Eyes Set to Kill album)Reach (Eyes Set to Kill album)-Singles:Reach is the first and lead single of the band's debut album. It was released February 5, 2008. The music video was shot in an old train car in Arizona...
, a 2008 album by the post-hardcore band Eyes Set to Kill - Reach (Eyes Set to Kill song)Reach (Eyes Set to Kill song)"Reach" is a song from an American metalcore band Eyes Set to Kill. It was released February 5, 2008 and was the lead single of the band from their debut album Reach. Alexia Rodriguez is now the vocals after Lindsey Vogt left...
, a 2008 single from Eyes Set to Kill - Reach (Gloria Estefan song), the 1996 Summer Olympics official song, performed by Gloria Estefan
- Reach Martini Ranch songMartini RanchMartini Ranch is a new wave band conceived in 1982 by Andrew Todd Rosenthal. The band was composed of Andrew and actor Bill Paxton , and featured a similar sound to late 1980s Devo. The Martini Ranch track "How Can the Labouring Man Find Time for Self-Culture?" featured three members of Devo...
, a 1982 single by Andrew Todd Rosenthal and Bill PaxtonBill PaxtonWilliam "Bill" Paxton is an American actor and film director. He gained popularity after starring roles in the films Apollo 13, Twister, Aliens, True Lies, and Titanic...
. - Reach (Nightwish song)Reach (Nightwish song)"Reach" is a 2006 song written by Tuomas Holopainen of symphonic power metal band Nightwish for their sixth studio album "Dark Passion Play". As Nightwish received their new female singer in February 2007, the lead vocals of the song was changed from Marco Hietala to Anette Olzon and the lyrics of...
, a 2007 song by Nightwish - Reach (Peter FurlerPeter FurlerPeter Andrew Furler is an Australian musician, songwriter, producer, and record executive but is best known as the former lead singer for the Christian rock band Newsboys.-Biography:...
song), a 2011 song by Peter FurlerPeter FurlerPeter Andrew Furler is an Australian musician, songwriter, producer, and record executive but is best known as the former lead singer for the Christian rock band Newsboys.-Biography:...
, from his album On Fire.
Others
- Reach (advertising)Reach (advertising)In the application of statistics to advertising and media analysis, reach refers to the total number of different people or households exposed, at least once, to a medium during a given period of time. Reach should not be confused with the number of people who will actually be exposed to and...
, a measure of the size of an audience - Reach (comics)Reach (comics)The Reach are a villainous race of cybernetic insectoid aliens in the DC Comics universe. They are unintentionally responsible for the creation of the dynasty of super heroes known as the Blue Beetles.-Fictional history:...
, a villainous alien race in the DC Comics universe - Reach (geography)Reach (geography)A reach in geography can mean several things. Most generally, a reach is any length of a stream between any two points. The points may be selected for any reason, such as gauging stations, river miles, natural features, and topography. They may be arbitrary or vague.A reach may also be an expanse,...
, an expanse, or widening, of a stream or river channel, commonly occurring after daming - Reach (mathematics)Reach (mathematics)In mathematics, the reach of a subset of Euclidean space Rn is a real number that roughly describes how curved the boundary of the set is.- Definition :Let X be a subset of Rn...
, a geometric property of a set - Arm span, or reach, measured from fingertip to fingertip, important in boxing, basketball
- REACH (brand), a brand of toothbrushes, dental floss, and other oral care products manufactured by McNeil-PPC, a division of Johnson & JohnsonJohnson & JohnsonJohnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....
- Canal reach is the section of a canal, between two locks
- The ICAO radiotelephony callsign of flights by the USAF Air Mobility CommandAir Mobility CommandAir Mobility Command is a Major Command of the U.S. Air Force. AMC is headquartered at Scott AFB, Illinois, east of St. Louis....
(ICAO Airline Designator "RCH") - Reach, a sailing term for when the boat is traveling approximately perpendicular to the wind
- The st-connectivityST-connectivityIn computer science and computational complexity theory, st-connectivity or STCON is a decision problem asking, for vertices s and t in a directed graph, if t is reachable from s.Formally, the decision problem is given by- Complexity :...
problem is sometimes called "reachabilityReachabilityIn graph theory, reachability is the notion of being able to get from one vertex in a directed graph to some other vertex. Note that reachability in undirected graphs is trivial — it is sufficient to find the connected components in the graph, which can be done in linear time.- Definition :For a...
" or simply "reach."