Phalanx
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Phalanx, from Ancient Greek φάλαγξ (finger), can have many meanings, as in the original Greek language.
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Phalanx may refer to:
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Medicine
- Phalanx bones, the bones that form fingers and toes.
Military
- Phalanx formation, in ancient warfare
- Phalanx CIWS, a U.S. Navy defense system to protect against an anti-ship missile
Politics
- North American Phalanx, a utopian community organized on proto-communist Fourierist principles, or its journal The Phalanx
- The Spanish Falange
- The Lebanese Kataeb Party
Literature
- Phalanx (comics), a species of villainous mechanical aliens in Marvel Comics, most recently appearing in Annihilation: Conquest
- The Phalanx, a Fourierist journal
- Phalanx, the name of the false zombie proof drug in the novel by Max Brooks, World War Z.
Music
- Phalanx (album), a 1983 live album by Australian surf rock band, Australian Crawl
- Phalanx, a trance music group formed by Dennis Gertner, Manuel Reuter and Manuel Schleis
- Phalanx (band), a jazz music group
Computers
- Phalanx (msx game), a video game produced by Enix for the MSX computer system
- Phalanx (video game), a Super NES and Game Boy Advance video game
- the 13th Colossus from the video game Shadow of the Colossus
- Phalanx, a system that uses swarms of bots (a good botnet) to defend internet servers from criminal botnets,developed by the University of Washington.
- Phalanx is a troop type in the browser game, Travian.
- the first Demon (boss) in the PS3 game Demon's Souls.
Other
- Phalanstère, a building layout developed by utopian socialist Charles Fourier
- Phalanx (horse), American Champion racehorse
- The falanges (legions of spirits) of the Brazilian Umbanda religion
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