Phalanx

Phalanx (From Ancient Greek polytonic| ("finger")) can have many meanings, as the original Greek also did: The Greek meaning was one of a military formation, it consisted of four sides resembling a rectangle. For the most part this strategy worked but was the only form they had, many times the battle was lost if the formation was broken.Phalanx may refer to:

Medicine

* Phalanx bones, in hands and feet

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

The arts

* Phalanx art school, a private art school in Munich

Architecture

* Phalanstère, a building layout developed by utopian socialist Charles Fourier

Literature

* Phalanx (comics), a species of villainous mechanical aliens in Marvel Comics, most recently appearing in
* The Phalanx, a Fourierist journal

Music

* "Phalanx (album)", a 1983 live album by Australian surf rock band, Australian Crawl

Religion

* The "falanges" (legions of spirits) of the Brazilian Umbanda religion

Computers

* Phalanx (computer programming quality assurance technique)
* 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.