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Music

Musicians and groups

Open (band), Australian pop/rock band
The Open (band), English indie rock band

Albums and EPs

Open, a 1967 album by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity
Open (Blues Image album), 1970
Open, a 1979 album by Steve Hillage
Open (Gerd Dudek, Buschi Niebergall, and Edward Vesala album), 1979
Open (Gotthard album), 1999
Open (Cowboy Junkies album), 2001
Open (YFriday album), 2001
Open (Shaznay Lewis album), 2004
Open (Jon Anderson EP), 2011
Open (Stick Men album), 2012
Open (The Necks album), 2013
Open, 2019 album by Louis Baker
Open (Kwon Eun-bi EP), 2021

Songs

"Open" (Queensrÿche song)
"Open" (Mýa song)
"Open", the first song on The Cure album Wish

Literature

Open (Mexican magazine), a lifestyle Mexican publication
Open (Indian magazine), an Indian weekly English language magazine featuring current affairs
OPEN (North Dakota magazine), an out-of-print magazine that was printed in the Fargo, North Dakota area of the U.S.
Open: An Autobiography, tennis player Andre Agassi's 2009 memoir

Computing and mathematics

Open (process), a program launcher invoked from the command line in NeXTSTEP or Mac OS X
Open (system call), standardized system call for opening files
Open set, in mathematics
Open interval, in mathematics
Open line segment, in mathematics
Open map, in mathematics

Film and television

Open (2011 film), a 2011 film
Open (2019 film), a 2019 film
Open TV, television channel in Greece
Sky Open, a New Zealand television channel
Open...., the original interactive television service on BSkyBs Sky Digital platform

Other uses

Open (sport), a competition where entry is open to qualifiers regardless of amateur or professional status
Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act, a bill in the United States Congress to combat online piracy
Organization of Pakistani Entrepreneurs of North America, a not-for-profit organization
One-Pair Ethernet, a specification of the OPEN Alliance SIG
Open Cycle, a bicycle manufacturer

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