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Spike

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Spike, spikes, or spiking may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

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Books

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Comics

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Film and television

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Music

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Periodicals

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Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

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Biology and medicine

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  • Spike (botany), a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
  • Spike (neuroscience), or action potential
  • SPIKES, a clinical protocol used to break bad news to patients
  • Spike protein, a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells
  • Spine (zoology), a hard, needle-like anatomical structure

People

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Names

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People with the name or stage name

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In film

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In music

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In professional wrestling

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  • Spike Dudley, the ring name of former American professional wrestler Matthew Jonathan Hyson (born 1970)
  • Moondog Spike, the ring name of American professional wrestler Bill Smithson
  • Spike Huber, a professional wrestler from the United States Wrestling Association
  • Spike, a professional wrestler, half of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling tag team The Heavy Metal Sisters

Sport

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Technology

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Computing

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Mechanical devices

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  • Cleat (shoe), a protrusion on the sole of a shoe to provide traction
    • Track spikes, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate
  • Nail (fastener), or spike, especially one over ten inches (25 cm) long
  • Spike strip, a device used to impede or stop the movement of wheeled vehicles
  • Spindle (stationery), an upright spike used to hold papers

Other uses in technology

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  • Spike (missile) an Israeli fourth generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM)
  • Voltage spike, also called an electrical surge, an electronic glitch
  • Spiking a gun, a method of rendering a cannon temporarily inoperable by driving a metal spike into the touch hole

Other uses

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See also

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