Fog (disambiguation)
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Fog
Fog
Fog is a collection of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface. While fog is a type of stratus cloud, the term "fog" is typically distinguished from the more generic term "cloud" in that fog is low-lying, and the moisture in the fog is often generated...

is a term for a cloud in contact with the ground.

Fog may also refer to:

Music

  • Fog (band)
    Fog (band)
    Fog is a band fronted by Andrew Broder, which includes members Mark Erickson and Tim Glenn. For most of their existence, material released by Fog had been produced largely by Broder alone, combining both traditionally performed instruments and turntable-derived samples, until the switch to a...

    , an ambient band
  • Fog, a short song by Radiohead
    Radiohead
    Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...

  • "Fog", a song by Sadist from Lego
    Lego (album)
    Lego is the fourth full-length studio album by the Italian progressive death metal band Sadist, released in 2000 by kmg. In this unexpected release, the band loses death vocals altogether, while maintaining hard driving guitars which are still present for a thrash metal background with vocals...

  • "The Fog", a song by Kate Bush from her 1989 album The Sensual World
    The Sensual World
    -Personnel:*Haydn Bendall: engineer*Andrew Boland: engineer*Stoyanka Boneva: vocals*Kate Bush: piano, keyboards, vocals, background vocals, producer*Paddy Bush: mandolin, background vocals, valiha, whip, tupan*Clare Connors: violin...


Film and Literature

  • Fog (1934 film), a 1934 minor Hollywood film
  • The Fog
    The Fog
    The Fog is a 1980 horror film directed by John Carpenter, who also co-wrote the screenplay and composed the music for the film. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins and Janet Leigh...

    , a 1980 horror film
  • The Fog (2005 film)
    The Fog (2005 film)
    The Fog is a 2005 horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright and starring Tom Welling, Selma Blair and Maggie Grace. It is a remake of John Carpenter's 1980 film of the same name, but this time made more in the vein of a "teen horror film" .Both Carpenter and Debra Hill The Fog is a 2005 horror film...

    , a 2005 remake of the above
  • "Fog", a 1916 poem by Carl Sandburg
    Carl Sandburg
    Carl Sandburg was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."-Biography:Sandburg was born in Galesburg,...



FOG may refer to:
  • FOG (cable system), a submarine telecommunications cable linking the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait
  • Fibre optic gyroscope
    Fibre optic gyroscope
    A fibre optic gyroscope senses changes in orientation, thus performing the function of a mechanical gyroscope. However its principle of operation is instead based on the interference of light which has passed through a coil of optical fibre which can be as long as 5 km.Two beams from a laser...

  • First Osborne Group, a computer users' group dedicated to the Osborne 1
    Osborne 1
    The Osborne 1 was the first commercially successful portable microcomputer, released on April 3, 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation. It weighed 10.7 kg , cost USD$ 1795, and ran the then-popular CP/M 2.2 operating system...

     personal computer
  • Forest Gate railway station
    Forest Gate railway station
    Forest Gate railway station is located in the London Borough of Newham, in east London. The station is located at It is in Travelcard Zone 3 on the Great Eastern Main Line, and was first opened in 1840, a year after the line was built, but closed in 1843, before re-opening after pressure from local...

    , England; National Rail station code FOG
  • Free Open-Source Ghost, a Ghost-like computer cloning
    Disk cloning
    Disk cloning is the process of copying the contents of one computer hard disk to another disk or to an "image" file. Often, the contents of the first disk are written to an image file as an intermediate step, and the second disk is loaded with the contents of the image...

     solution. FOG Project site


Other uses

  • Distance fog
    Distance fog
    Distance fog is a technique used in 3D computer graphics to enhance the perception of distance by simulating fog.Because many of the shapes in graphical environments are relatively simple, and complex shadows are difficult to render, many graphics engines employ a "fog" gradient so objects further...

    , a technique in 3D rendering
  • St. John's Fog Devils
    St. John's Fog Devils
    The St. John's Fog Devils were a junior ice hockey team in the Eastern Division of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. They were based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and played out of Mile One Centre. The QMJHL expanded to St. John's to fill the void created by the departure of the...

    , named after the weather
  • The Gunning fog index
    Gunning fog index
    In linguistics, the Gunning fog index measures the readability of English writing. The index estimates the years of formal education needed to understand the text on a first reading. A fog index of 12 requires the reading level of a U.S. high school senior...

    , a measure of readability
  • Function composition
    Function composition
    In mathematics, function composition is the application of one function to the results of another. For instance, the functions and can be composed by computing the output of g when it has an argument of f instead of x...

    , in which the composition of functions f and g are denoted by f ∘ g
  • The chain rule, which involves the derivatives
    Derivative
    In calculus, a branch of mathematics, the derivative is a measure of how a function changes as its input changes. Loosely speaking, a derivative can be thought of as how much one quantity is changing in response to changes in some other quantity; for example, the derivative of the position of a...

     of function compositions

See also

  • Fogging (disambiguation)
  • London fog (disambiguation)
  • Phileas Fogg
    Phileas Fogg
    Phileas Fogg is the main fictional character in the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days.Fogg attempts to circumnavigate the late Victorian world in eighty days, or less, for a wager of £20,000 with members of London's Reform Club. He takes the wager and leaves with Passepartout,...

    , the main fictional character in the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Mist (disambiguation)
    Mist (disambiguation)
    Mist is a weather phenomenon similar to fog.Mist may also refer to:Comics* Mist , a supervillain of Starman comicsEducation* Michigan State University, a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, in the United States...

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