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Gas may refer to:
- Generally, gas is one of the phases of matter.
- In common use, Natural gas is a mixture of about 80% methane, with varying proportions of ethane, propane and butane, used as a fuel.
- Often, gas is Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG).
- In US English, gas is short for gasoline
- In anesthesia, laughing gas, or nitrous oxide, is often called gas.
- In welding, gas usually refers to acetylene but can also be Argon, Helium, or Carbon dioxide. See Metal inert gas welding.
- In chemical warfare, gas is a weapon.
- On the Space Shuttle, the GAS is an experiment bay known as the Getaway Special.
- In computing, the GAS is a computer language assembler called the GNU assembler.
- Gas is also a euphemism for flatulence or burping.
- Colloquially: gas sometimes means "profuse talk, longwindedness".
- Gas, Kansas
to gas (verb) can mean:-
- Expose to gas.
- Kill by exposing to gas.
- Emit gas.
- Colloquially: talk at length or excessively.
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