Mark
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Mark may refer to:
- Mark (given name), a male given name
- Mark (surname)
Christianity
- Curse and mark of Cain, Cain's inability to harvest crops and the necessity that he led a nomadic lifestyle
- Gospel of Mark, one of the books of the Bible
- Secret Gospel of Mark, apocryphal
- Mark the Evangelist (Saint Mark)
- Mark of the Beast, a sign or number mentioned in the Book of Revelation
- Pope Mark, short-lived pope who reigned during the year 336
- St Mark's Basilica, the most famous of the churches of Venice and an example of Byzantine architecture
Currency
- Mark (money), a unit of currency in various countries
- German gold mark, coinage of the German Empire from 1873 to 1914
- German Papiermark, German coinage from 1914 to 1929
- Rentenmark, German temporary currency 1923 to 1924
- German Reichsmark, German coinage from 1924 to 1948
- Deutsche Mark, official currency of Germany from 1948 to 2001
- East German Mark, official currency of the German Democratic Republic from 1948 to 1990
- Polish marka, Polish currency from 1917 to 1924
- Finnish markka, mark in Swedish, official currency of Finland from 1860 to 2001
- Bosnia and Herzegovina konvertibilna marka
- Estonian mark, Estonian currency from 1919 to 1928
Geography
- Mark, or marches, the border territory of a country
- Baruth/Mark, a village in the Teltow-Fläming district of Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 24 km east of Luckenwalde, and 53 km south of Berlin.
- County of Mark, a county of the Holy Roman Empire
- Mark (Dender), a river in Belgium, tributary of the Dender
- Mark (Dintel) a river in Belgium and the Netherlands, also known as the Dintel
- Mark Hundred in Sweden
- Mark Municipality in Sweden
- Mark, Somerset, a village in Somerset, United Kingdom
- Mark, Illinois, a village in the United States
Measurement
- Mark (mass), an archaic European unit of weight whose use for precious metal gave rise to the currencies
- Assessment in school of pupils' performance (Grade (school))
Mythology
- Mark of Cornwall, a figure from Arthurian legend
- Mark, a satyr, a legend in Ancient Greece, regarded as a god in Thebes.
Sports
In both Australian rules football and rugby union, a clean catch from a kick by another player results in a free kick. See:
Technology
- Harvard Mark I, the first large-scale automatic digital computer in the USA
- Mark (designation), level of development
- Mark frequency, extreme discrete value of frequency-shift keying
- Mark tone, a synchronizing signal used in early telecommunications, indicating that data bits will be arriving, as distinguished from a space tone, an absence of data
Other
- Beauty mark, dark mole on the face or other part of the body that is considered to be attractive
- Tick (check mark)
- Diacritical mark, mark added to a letter to alter a word's pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words
- Mark of Rohan, fictional realm in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy era of Middle-earth. See also Marches
- Mark, a grade awarded to students' work
- Merchant's Mark
- Sea mark, pilotage aid which identifies the approximate position of a maritime channel, hazard and administrative area
- Tread mark (disambiguation), various meanings
- Skid mark, a mark left by a tire tread during a skid
- A fan of professional wrestling, notably, one who treats professional wrestling as real and not scripted
- Makers mark (stamp) or marking to signify maker of original artwork, frequently used in ceramic art
- "Mark", a song from Change Giver by Shed Seven