What is "inferno"

Inferno \In*fer"no\, n. [It. See Infernal.]

1. The infernal regions; hell.

2. Hence: A raging fire.

   At each sudden explosion in the inferno below they sprang back from the brink [of the volcanic crater].
   --D. C. Worcester.

1834, from Italian inferno, from Latin infernus (see infernal).

n. 1 A place or situation resembling Hell. 2 A large fire, a conflagration.

1. n. any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits"; [syn: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits]

2. a very intense and uncontrolled fire [syn: conflagration]

3. (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit" [syn: Hell, perdition, infernal region, nether region, the pit] [ant: Heaven]

Inferno may refer to:

• Hell
• Conflagration, a large uncontrolled fire

Inferno is a distributed operating system started at Bell Labs, but is now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova Holdings as free software. Inferno was based on the experience gained with Plan 9 from Bell Labs, and the further research of Bell Labs into operating systems, languages, on-the-fly compilers, graphics, security, networking and portability. The name of the operating system and many of its associated programs, as well as that of the current company, were inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

Inferno programs are portable across a broad mix of hardware, networks, and environments. It defines a virtual machine, known as Dis, that can be implemented on any real machine, provides Limbo, a type-safe language that is compiled to portable byte code, and, more significantly, it includes a virtual operating system that supplies the same interfaces whether Inferno runs natively on hardware or runs as a user program on top of another operating system.

A communications protocol called Styx is applied uniformly to access both local and remote resources, which programs use by calling standard file operations, open, read, write, and close. As of the fourth edition of Inferno, Styx is identical to Plan 9's newer version of its hallmark 9P protocol, 9P2000.

Inferno is a fantasy novel written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, published in 1976. It was nominated for the 1976 Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel.

Inferno is the fourth and final serial of the seventh season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in seven weekly parts from 9 May to 20 June 1970. The serial remains the last time a Doctor Who story was transmitted in seven episodes. This serial was also the last regular appearance of Caroline John in the role of Liz Shaw.

Inferno is the seventeenth studio album by the band Motörhead, released 22 June 2004, on Steamhammer, their eighth with the label. It was the second release under Sanctuary Records and their subsidiary Metal-Is in North America and certain territories.

Inferno (alias Sandy Anderson of the planet Earth) is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Comics universe. The character is a former ally of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the future, but currently resides in the present day.

Inferno is a 1953 American film noir drama/thriller starring Robert Ryan, William Lundigan and Rhonda Fleming, directed by Roy Ward Baker. It was shot in Technicolor and shown in 3-D Dimension and stereophonic sound on prints for the few theaters equipped for that sound system in 1953.

Inferno is the name of several fictional characters from the various Transformers franchise. Despite having different alternate modes, the character name has been most associated with the form of a fire engine.

Inferno is a 2001 28 minute long sci-fi film directed by Paul Kousoulides, featuring UK cult actress/presenter Emily Booth.

Infernö is a Norwegian thrash metal band. They formed in 1995, and are currently releasing on Duplicate records. The latest Infernö studio album is called "On Earth As It Is In Hell" and was released in 2006. The band's most known member is Carl-Michael "Aggressor" Eide. He has been a member of Cadaver, Dødheimsgard, Satyricon, Ulver and Ved Buens Ende. He's also a member of Aura Noir and Virus.

Inferno, in comics, may refer to:

• Inferno (DC Comics), a character from the DC Comics series Legion of Super-Heroes
  • Inferno (Mighty Crusaders), a character from DC's time leasing the Mighty Crusaders licence
• Inferno, the name of an alternate version of Legion of Super-Heroes member Sun Boy
• Inferno (Marvel Comics), a crossover between Marvel Comics titles in which the X-Men battled demons
• Inferno, a number of characters in Marvel Comics:
  • Inferno (demon), the name of a specific demon in the Marvel Comics universe, an enemy of Ghost Rider.
  • Inferno (Joseph Conroy), an opponent of the Avengers
  • Inferno (Samantha McGee), a member of the Exemplars
  • Inferno (Dante Pertuz), an Inhuman with the ability to light himself aflame.
• Inferno (Transformers), a character who has appeared in number of comics based on the toys, published by both Marvel and Dreamwave
• Inferno!, a Warhammer anthology magazine mixing text and comic stories
• "Inferno", a Judge Dredd story written by Grant Morrison
• Inferno (Caliber Comics), a title from Caliber Comics
• Inferno (Image Comics), a character from Image Comics and member of the Vicious Circle

Inferno was a Marvel Comics company-wide crossover in 1989 that mainly involved the mutant titles, namely The Uncanny X-Men, X-Factor, X-Terminators, Excalibur, and The New Mutants. The story concerned the corruption of Madelyne Pryor into the Goblin Queen, the final transformation of Illyana Rasputin into the Darkchylde, the demonic transformation of Hobgoblin, and a demonic invasion of New York City. The series was written by Louise Simonson, Chris Claremont, Steve Engelhart, Gerry Conway, David Michelinie, Ann Nocenti, Walter Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, Terry Austin, and Julianna Jones.

Inferno is a 1980 Italian supernatural horror film, written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Irene Miracle, Leigh McCloskey, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi and Alida Valli. The cinematography was by Romano Albani and Keith Emerson composed the film's thunderous musical score. The story concerns a young man's investigation into the disappearance of his sister, who had been living in a New York City apartment building that also served as a home for a powerful, centuries-old witch.

A thematic sequel to Suspiria (1977), the film is the second part of Argento's Three Mothers trilogy. The long-delayed concluding entry, The Mother of Tears, was released in 2007. All three films are partially derived from the concept of "Our Ladies of Sorrow" (Mater Lachrymarum, Mater Suspiriorum and Mater Tenebrarum) originally devised by Thomas de Quincey in his book Suspiria de Profundis (1845).

Unlike Suspiria, Inferno received a very limited theatrical release and the film was unable to match the box office success of its predecessor. While the initial critical response to the film was mostly negative, its reputation has improved considerably over the years. Kim Newman has called it "perhaps the most underrated horror movie of the 1980s." In 2005, the magazine Total Film named Inferno one of the 50 greatest horror films of all time.

Inferno is the sixth book in the Legacy of the Force series. It is a paperback by Troy Denning and was released on August 28, 2007.

Inferno (also released with the title, Operation Cobra) is a 1997 feature film directed by Fred Olen Ray starring Don Wilson, Deepti Bhatnagar and R. Madhavan. Evan Lurie, Michael Cavanaugh and Tané McClure appear in other pivotal roles. Wilson plays the role of Interpol agent Kyle Connors on a mission set in India.

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"Inferno" is the 28th episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a British 1960s Supermarionation television series co-created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Written by Tony Barwick and Shane Rimmer and directed by Alan Perry, it was first broadcast on 16 April 1968 on ATV Midlands. In this episode, the Mysterons destroy and reconstruct a spacecraft to attack the Najama desalinisation plant in the Andes mountains.

Inferno (1902–1919) was a Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse. He has been called "Canada's first great racehorse" by the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.

Inferno is the eighth full-length album by Swedish death metal band Entombed. It was released in August 2003. The album mixed the band's trademark death 'n' roll sound with elements of the traditional death metal band that made the band famous.

Inferno is an autobiographical novel by August Strindberg. Written in French in 1896-97 at the height of Strindberg's troubles with both censors and women, the book is concerned with Strindberg's life both in and after he lived in Paris, and explores his various obsessions, including alchemy, occultism, and Swedenborgianism, and shows signs of paranoia and neuroticism.

Inferno has often been cited as proof of Strindberg's own personal neuroses, such as a persecution complex, but evidence also suggests that Strindberg, although experiencing mild neurotic symptoms, both invented and exaggerated much of the material in the book for dramatic effect.

Inferno is the soundtrack to Dario Argento's film of the same title, first released as a 15-track LP in 1981, by Cinevox, then as a CD in 2000, with a bonus track of outtakes reportedly utilized in the film itself, but not included on the original vinyl release. The score was composed and performed by keyboardist Keith Emerson, former member of the progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

As a selection from Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco is played in several different sequences in the film, Argento tasked Emerson with including the piece in his soundtrack. Emerson re-orchestrated " Va, pensiero..." in five-four time to mimic a "fast and bumpy" taxi ride through Rome. When Argento reviewed Emerson's progress he did not initially recognize the remix, but was later pleased to discover it was used for Sara's taxi ride.

Emerson's music met with a mixed response from critics, some of whom compared it unfavorably to Goblin's score for Argento's Suspiria (1977). Time Out's Scott Meek noted that "Argento's own over-the-top score [for Suspiria] has been replaced by religioso thunderings from the keyboards of Keith Emerson." A review of the 2000 Cinevox CD from Allmusic notes, "The keyboard selections are rather unremarkable, except for the finale, "Cigarettes, Ice, Etc.," on which Emerson uses his full keyboard arsenal to excellent effect. Unfortunately, the choral segments sound rather pretentious and dated." In a review of the Anchor Bay DVD, Michael Mackenzie of DVD Times opined, "The music is more or less adequate and at times adds to the tension, but it frequently contradicts what is happening on-screen, and is certainly nothing when compared to Goblin's soundtrack for Suspiria." While Guido Henkel of the DVD Review website wrote that Emerson's score was "a beautiful and impressive piece", he felt that "[t]he music is poorly spotted and too often cues are placed where they shouldn't be, or placed so that they actually break tension rather than help building it."

Inferno (released in the United Kingdom as Desert Heat) is a 1999 American action film directed by John G. Avildsen, and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Danny Trejo and Pat Morita.

Eddie Lomax ( Van Damme) is a veteran soldier sick of life, wandering the desert looking for a reason to die. An incident with a few thugs from the nearby town who steal Eddie's motorbike and beat him almost to death, starts in Eddie a flame for revenge. Helped by Mr. Early, and some other good fellows, Eddie is out for vengeance.

This film is a remake of and a self-conscious tribute to Yojimbo (1961) by Akira Kurosawa.

Inferno (; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno tells the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth; it is the "realm...of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen." As an allegory, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin.

Inferno is a space combat simulator video game developed by Digital Image Design and published by Ocean Software in 1994 for the PC. It is a sequel to the 1992 game Epic.

Inferno is the first song of Lordi created in 1993 for Napalm Market demo album, which was published in 1995 on the compilation album Rockmurskaa with a combination of horror, fantasy and heavy metal music seven minutes. The video for the song was also carried out by Mr.Lordi, who starred as Mr. Lordi's friends makeup, masks and decorations of terror created by him. In this video clip Mr. Lordi performs unmasked, so the video has not been published later.

Inferno is the second studio album by the Italian progressive rock band Metamorfosi. It was released in 1973.

It's a concept album in which the protagonists are put to the index of the ills of society (drug dealers, greedy, racist, political, etc.), updating the model proposed in the Divine Comedy of Dante.

Inferno is a 2013 mystery thriller novel by American author Dan Brown and the fourth book in his Robert Langdon series, following Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol. The book was released on May 14, 2013 by Doubleday. It was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover fiction and Combined Print & E-book fiction for the first eleven weeks of its release, and also remained on the list of E-book fiction for the first seventeen weeks of its release.

Inferno is the first studio album by Swedish singer and songwriter Petra Marklund under her birth name since her 1999 album, Teen Queen. It was released on October 17, 2012 and is the follow-up to Love CPR, Marklund's fourth album under the alias September.

Inferno is a studio album by guitarist Marty Friedman, released in 2014 through Prosthetic Records.

Inferno is an upcoming 2016 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by David Koepp, based on 2013 novel of the same name by Dan Brown. The film is the sequel to The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, and stars Tom Hanks, reprising his role as Robert Langdon, alongside Felicity Jones, Omar Sy, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Ben Foster, and Irrfan Khan.

Filming began on April 27, 2015 in Venice, Italy, and wrapped on July 21, 2015 in Budapest. The film is scheduled to be released on October 28, 2016 in 3D, 2D, and IMAX formats.

Inferno is an anthology of horror stories edited by Ellen Datlow. It was published by Tor Books in December 2007. The anthology itself won the 2008 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.

Inferno (Dante Pertuz) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.