Blast

Blast or The Blast may refer to:

Explosion, a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner
Detonation, an exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front
A planned explosion in a mine, quarry or other situation in order to fragment rock

Film

Blast (British magazine), a 1914–15 literary magazine of the Vorticist movement
Blast (U.S. magazine), a 1933–34 American short-story magazine
The Blast (magazine), a 1916–17 American anarchist periodical

BLAST (protocol), file transfer software
BLAST (telescope), Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope
BLAST (biotechnology), Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, an algorithm used in bioinformatics
Blast cell or precursor cell, in cytology, a type of partially differentiated, usually unipotent cell
Blast disease, a disease of cereal crops
Blast injury, a complex type of physical trauma resulting from direct or indirect exposure to an explosion
BLAST network, a proposed rapid transit system for Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time, a transceiver architecture
FreeX Blast, a German paraglider design

Blast! (comics), a 1991 British comic
Blast! (musical), a 2001 Broadway musical
Blast! Entertainment, a defunct video game developer and publisher
C. L. Blast (1934–2016), recording name of Clarence Lewis
Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust
Bus Line Service of Turlock (BLAST), the former name for the public bus service operated by Turlock Transit in Turlock, California, US
Blast Premier, a Counter-Strike esports league
Blast TV, a Philippine Internet-based TV and streaming service