Epic

Epic commonly refers to:

Epic poetry, a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation
Epic film, a genre of film with heroic elements

Epic or EPIC may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

Gaming

Epic (game), a series of wargames
Epic (video game), a 1992 video game
Epic: Battle for Moonhaven (2013), a video game by Gameloft based on the film Epic (2013)
Epic Card Game, a strategy card game released in 2015 by White Wizard Games
Epic Games, a video game development company

Literature

Epic (Kostick novel), a 2004 novel by Conor Kostick
Epic Illustrated, a 1980s anthology series published by Marvel Comics

Music

Albums

Epic (Blood on the Dance Floor album), 2011
Epic (Borknagar album), 2004
Epic (R. Kelly album), 2010
Epic (Sharon Van Etten album), 2010
Epic (Tang Dynasty album), 1998

Songs

"Epic" (Faith No More song), 1990
"Epic" (Sandro Silva & Quintino song), 2011

Genres

Epic fantasy, a subgenre of fantasy literature
Epic trance, a subgenre of trance music

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Epic TV, an Indian Hindi-language TV channel
Epic Comics, an imprint of Marvel Comics
Epic Records, a record label subsidiary of Sony
Epics (company), a Japanese video game developer

Brands and enterprises

Epic Aircraft, an aircraft manufacturer in Bend, Oregon
Epic Pass, a ski/snowboard multi-resort and season pass program offered by Vail Resorts
Epic Systems, a healthcare software company in Verona, Wisconsin
Red Epic, a camera produced by Red Digital Cinema Camera Company

Organizations

Education for Peace in Iraq Center, a charitable organization located in Washington DC
El Paso Intelligence Center
Electors Photo Identity Card, see Voter ID (India)
Electronic Privacy Information Center, an independent non-profit research center
End Poverty in California movement, a movement led by Upton Sinclair
Établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial, a type of public-sector body in France and other countries
European Photonics Industry Consortium, serving the photonics community from a base in Paris, France

Places

Epic (skyscraper), an urban residential skyscraper in Downtown Miami completed in 2008
East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC Masjid), a Mosque located in Plano, Texas
Eastside Preparatory Impact Center, a building at Eastside Preparatory School focused on sustainability
Energy Production and Infrastructure Center, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Exhibition Park in Canberra, a large showground and multi-building venue in Australia

Technology

EPIC (form factor), a single board computer form factor based on the PC/104
- EPIC Express, a single board computer form factor based on the PC/104
Epic (web browser)
Epic, a large user story in software development and product management
Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera, an earth-facing camera in the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite
Electromagnetic Personal Interdiction Control
Embedded Programmable Interrupt Controller
EPICS, a software environment for distributed control systems
Evolutionary Process for Integrating COTS-Based Systems
Explicitly parallel instruction computing, a CPU architecture design philosophy based on VLIW, used in Itanium CPUs

Other uses

Ecliptic Plane Input Catalog, a database of stars and planets
Epic Mazur (born 1970), an American rapper
EPIC, ticker symbols in the United Kingdom prior to 1996
Epimorphism or epic morphism, in mathematics
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, a Europe-wide cohort study of diet and cancer
Norwegian Epic, a cruise ship
Excellence in Prehospital Injury Care, a program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson

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