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Ash

Ash may mean:

• Ash, the unburnable solid remains of a fire
• Ash (analytical chemistry), one of the components in the proximate analysis of biological materials, consisting mainly of carbonates and bicarbonates of metals
• Ash (band), a British rock band
• Ash (god), a hawk-god of the Sahara Desert in Egyptian mythology
• Ash tree, any tree of the genus Fraxinus
• Mountain Ash, any of various trees not in the Fraxinus genus
• Aishwarya Rai, actress from India popular by the nickname of Ash
• Volcanic ash, rocky powder material ejected from a volcano
• Ash (video game), a forthcoming video game for the Nintendo DS, by Square Enix
• Ash (comic), created by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti, published by Event Comics

Ash may also be:

• Æ, a letter from Old English commonly called "ash"
• near-open front unrounded vowel, the sound that æ (lowercase ash) corresponds to in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Almquist shell, a command-line interface for computers running some variants of the Unix operating system
• alt.suicide.holiday, a Usenet newsgroup
• Action on Smoking and Health, an anti-smoking charitable organisation
• The NATO reporting name of the Bisnovat R-4 air-to-air missile

Ash is also the name of:

Places in the United Kingdom:

• Ash-cum-Ridley, near Sevenoaks, Kent, England
• Ash, Dover (Ash-next-Sandwich), Kent, England
• Ash, Derbyshire, England
• Ash, Somerset, England
• Ash, Surrey, England

Places in the United States:

• Ash, Texas in Houston County, Texas
• Ash, Missouri in Monroe County, Missouri
• Ash, North Carolina in Brunswick County, North Carolina
• Ash, Ohio in Licking County, Ohio
• Ash, Washington in Walla Walla County, Washington
• Ash, Oregon in Douglas County, Oregon
• Ash, West Virginia in Mason County, West Virginia
• Ash, Georgia in Paulding County, Georgia

Fictional characters:

• Ash Williams, the anti-hero of the Evil Dead trilogy
• Ash Ketchum, the protagonist in the Pokémon series
• Ash, the phantom guardian of Marona in Phantom Brave
• Science Officer Ash, the science officer of the Nostromo in the 1979 film Alien
• Ash Crimson, the latest main character in the King of Fighters game series.
• Ashe, a character in Final Fantasy XII.

See also

• Ashes for related meanings.
• Ashley; Ash is a nickname for that name.

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