KISMET

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'Kismet' (Turkish, Urdu as well as Hindi and Arabic, "''fate''"--derived from the Arabic term ''qisma''; modified in Persian as ''qismat'' and then from Turkish it came to English usage) may refer to:

Contents

Locations

Technology

Music

Film

Comics

Other

See Also

Locations

★ Kismet, California, located on the BNSF Railway in the Central Valley north of Fresno and south of Sacramento

★ Kismet, Kansas

★ Kismet, New York, a town on Fire Island

Technology

★ Kismet (software), software used to analyze wireless network traffic

★ Kismet (robot), a robot intended to demonstrate simulated emotion

★ Kismet (gameplay scripting), gameplay scripting tool for the Unreal Engine from Epic Games

★ Akismet, short for ''Automattic Kismet'', an effective server-based spam filter.

Music

★ ''Kismet'' (musical), a 1953 Broadway musical built around the music of Alexander Borodin, and adapted from a 1911 play by Edward Knoblock.

★ ''Kismet'' was a 1993-1999 band formed by Macedonians in Australia lead by Gorazd Chapovski from the band Mizar.

★ ''Kismet'' is an album from the Hungarian folk vocalist Márta Sebestyén.

★ Kismet is a song from Born, the debut album of the string quartet 'bond'

Film

''Kismet'' is the name of more than 15 films; among the best known:

★ ''Kismet'' (1930) produced by Warner Brothers starring Loretta Young and Otis Skinner which was shot in an early widescreen process known as the Vitascope

★ ''Kismet'' (1943), Hindi film which stars Ashok Kumar

★ ''Kismet'' (1944), starring Ronald Colman and Marlene Dietrich, and based on Knoblock's play; sometimes shown on television as ''Oriental Dream''.

★ ''Kismet'' (1955), directed by Vincente Minnelli and based on the 1953 musical

Comics

★ Kismet (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics superheroine

★ Kismet (DC Comics), a DC Comics character

Other

★ Kismet (chocolate bar)

★ Kismet (dice game)

See Also

★ Predestination in Islam