# Option

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**Option** or **Options** may refer to:

## Computing

- [Option key](/source/Option_key), a key on Apple computer keyboards
- [Option type](/source/Option_type), a polymorphic data type in programming languages
- [Command-line option](/source/Command-line_option), an optional parameter to a command
- OPTIONS, an [HTTP request method](/source/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#Request_methods)
- Option, an individual [computer configuration](/source/Computer_configuration) setting

## Literature

- [*Options* (novel)](/source/Options_(novel)), a novel by Robert Sheckley
- [*Option* (car magazine)](/source/Option_(car_magazine)), a Japanese car magazine
- [*Option* (music magazine)](/source/Option_(music_magazine)), a defunct American music magazine
- "Options", a 1979 story by [John Varley](/source/John_Varley_(author))

## Legal rights

- [Option (aircraft purchasing)](/source/Option_(aircraft_purchasing))
- [Option of nationality](/source/Option_of_nationality), the right to choose a nationality when the sovereignty is transferred from one state to another - [South Tyrol Option Agreement](/source/South_Tyrol_Option_Agreement), a forced resettling contract between fascist Italy and Nazi Germany regarding the German-speaking inhabitants of South Tyrol
- [Option (filmmaking)](/source/Option_(filmmaking)), a contractual agreement between a film producer and a writer, in which the producer obtains the right to buy a screenplay from the writer before a certain date.
- [Option (finance)](/source/Option_(finance)), an instrument that conveys the right, but not the obligation, to engage in a future transaction (for example, on some underlying security or on a parcel of real property), or in a futures contract
- [Option contract](/source/Option_contract), a type of legal contract

## Music

- ["Options" (Cameron Whitcomb song)](/source/Options_(Cameron_Whitcomb_song)), 2025
- ["Options" (Luke James song)](/source/Options_(Luke_James_song)), 2014
- ["Options" (NSG song)](/source/Options_(NSG_song)), 2018
- "Options", a song by Doja Cat from *[Planet Her](/source/Planet_Her)*, 2021
- "Options", a song by [EarthGang](/source/EarthGang), 2020
- "Options", a song by [Iñigo Pascual](/source/I%C3%B1igo_Pascual), 2019
- "Options", a song by [Loren Gray](/source/Loren_Gray), 2019
- "Options", a song by [Internet Money](/source/Internet_Money_Records), 2022
- "Options", a song by NF from *[The Search](/source/The_Search_(NF_album))*, 2019
- "Options", a song by PartyNextDoor from *[PartyNextDoor Two](/source/PartyNextDoor_Two)*, 2014
- "Options", a song by Pedro the Lion from *[Control](/source/Control_(Pedro_the_Lion_album))*, 2002
- "Options", a song by Pitbull from *[Climate Change](/source/Climate_Change_(album))*, 2017
- "Options", a song by Twice from *[This Is For](/source/This_Is_For)*, 2025

## Sport

- [Option (baseball)](/source/Option_(baseball)), a baseball player who can be moved back and forth between major and minor league teams
- [Option offense](/source/Option_offense), an offensive scheme in American football primarily predicated on option runs
- [Option run](/source/Option_run), a play in American and Canadian football

## Other uses

- ["Options" (*Welcome to Paradox*)](/source/Options_(Welcome_To_Paradox)), an episode of *Welcome to Paradox*
- [Option N.V.](/source/Option_N.V.), a company providing wireless technology devices
- "The Option", an alternate name for the [South Tyrol Option Agreement](/source/South_Tyrol_Option_Agreement), a resettlement program of German speakers living in Italy initiated by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
- Flight Options, an American fractional ownership airline founded by [Kenn Ricci](/source/Kenn_Ricci#Flight_Options) that uses the callsign "Options"

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