Gold (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Gold is a highly sought-after precious metal that for many centuries has been used as money.
Gold may also refer to:
Businesses
- Barrick Gold, the largest gold mining company in the world
- Gold's Gym, international chain of fitness centers
In economics
- Gold coin, one of the oldest forms of money
- Gold as an investment, the use of the precious metal gold as an investment
- Gold certificate, a certificate proving ownership of gold
- Gold Fixing, a procedure by which the price of gold is set on the London market
- Gold gram, the amount of value represented by exactly one gram of gold
- Gold standard, monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold
- Nazi gold, assets in gold transferred by Nazi Germany to overseas banks during the Second World War
- e-gold, a digital gold currency, operated by Gold & Silver Reserve Inc.
In science and technology
- Gold standard (test), in medicine, a diagnostic test of disease
- GOLD (ontology), an ontology for descriptive linguistics
In chemistry
- Colloidal gold, suspension of sub-micrometre-sized particles of gold in a fluid
- Gold chalcogenides, gold compounds with anions from periodic table group 16
- Gold halide, metal halide
- Gold plating, method of depositing a thin layer of gold on the surface of other metal
- Rose gold, gold and copper alloy widely used for specialized jewelry due to its reddish color
- White gold, alloy of gold and at least one white metal
In color theory
- Gold (color), shade of the metal gold
- Old Gold, dark yellow
In technology
- AntiVirus Gold, a piece of malware that poses as a legitimate anti-virus program
- Gold Box, a series of computer role-playing games produced by SSI
- Gold release, the final development stage in software engineering
- GOLD (parser), an open source Backus-Naur form parser
- Gold (linker), a linker designed to be faster than GNU ld
- Gold box (phreaking), a box whose function is to create a bridge between two telephone lines
- Gold code, a code used in telecommunications
In entertainment
Film
- Crimson Gold, Iranian movie directed by Jafar Panahi
- Gold (1934 film), a 1934 German film
- Gold (1974 film), 1974 film starring Roger Moore
- Ulee's Gold, 1997 film written and directed by Victor Nuñez
Literature
- "The Gold-Bug", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- "Gold" (Asimov short story), a science fiction story
- Gold Digger (comic book), a manga-style comic book series
- Inca Gold, a book written by Clive Cussler
Music
- Gold album, an album or single that has sold a minimum number of copies
- "Gold" (Beverley Knight song), 2002
- "Gold" (Prince song), 1995
- "Gold" (B'z song), 2001
- Gold (album) (disambiguation)
- Gold (album series), a series of double-CD compilations released by Universal music
- Gold (band), a French band
- "Gold" (John Stuart song) 1976
- "Gold" (Spandau Ballet song), 1983
- Gold CD, a compact disc where gold is used instead of aluminium
- Gold City, a Southern gospel group
- "Gold Digger", 2005 single recorded by Kanye West
Television
- ANT1 Gold, a spin-off satellite channel from Antenna Group
- G.O.L.D., a British television channel
- Ethan Gold, fictional character on the television series Queer as Folk
Radio
- Gold (radio), a British radio network created in 2007
- Classic Gold Digital Network, a former British radio network
- Classic Gold, a number of radio stations which were operated in the Yorkshire area
In other entertainment
- Booster Gold, fictional comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe
- Pokémon Gold, a video game for the Nintendo Game Boy
- Gold (Pokémon), main character in Pokémon Adventures and Pokémon Gold games
People
- Andrew Gold (born 1951), singer and songwriter
- Ernest Gold (1921 – 1999), composer and father of Andrew Gold
- Jamie Gold (born 1969), winner of the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event
- Katie Gold (born 1978), pornographic actress
- Lex Gold (born 1940), football administrator
- Mike Gold (1893 – 1967), American literary critic
- Nathan Gold (1663 - 1723), American colonial leader and deputy governor
- Ted Gold (1947 – 1970), radical Columbia University student leader
- Tom Gold, New York City Ballet soloist
Other uses
- Acapulco gold, a potent strain of marijuana originating in Mexico
- Gold Base, international headquarters of the Church of Scientology
- Gold Country, a region in the central-and-north-eastern part of California, United States
- Gold medal, gold-plated medal which represents the highest award for an achievement in a non-military field
- Gold-plating, practice of national bodies exceeding the terms of European Community directives when implementing them into national law
- Gold Silver Bronze command structure, hierarchical framework used by emergency services in the UK
- Gold teeth, a form of dental prosthesis
- Gold Prince, a Pony of the Americas sire
- Gold, an old name for Nanai people, used in 19th century literature