Poison (disambiguation)

Poison is a substance that causes injury, illness, or death.

Poison or The Poison may also refer to:

Fictional characters

Film and television

  • Poison (film), a 1991 film directed by Todd Haynes
  • Poisons or the World History of Poisoning, a 2001 Russian film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov
  • "Poison" (House), a 2005 episode of House
  • "Poison" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Literature

Music

Bands

Albums and EPs

Songs

Other

Other uses

  • Nuclear poison, a neutron-absorbent material that impedes an intended nuclear reaction
  • Poison (perfume), by Christian Dior
  • Poison-type, a type of Pokémon in the video game series
  • Poison (game), a children's game
  • In software engineering, a poison is a special value given to uninitialized or freed memory; reading this memory provides only dummy data (however identifiable) or may cause the software to voluntarily be trapped (e.g. pointer to nowhere). This is employed as a security mechanism against attacks and a way to detect software failures.
gollark: For instance: what happened to the civilization who made it? Why did they use APL and was this related to their downfall? Do any other pieces work? Can it be repaired somehow? Does anyone have command keys?
gollark: Anyway, you could do lots of things with this.
gollark: Java, probably.
gollark: It's barely functional and somehow the remaining bit which is still usable is an APL interface.
gollark: It's an old omnipresent virtual assistant system from a civilization which collapsed ages ago.

See also

  • Poisson (disambiguation)
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