Corona

Corona (from the Latin for 'crown') most commonly refers to:

• Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a coronavirus responsible for the 2019–2020 outbreak
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by the virus
  • 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, the ongoing pandemic
• Stellar corona, the outer atmosphere of the Sun or another star
• Corona (beer), a Mexican beer

Corona may also refer to:

Architecture

• Corona, a part of a cornice
• The Corona, Canterbury Cathedral, the east end of Canterbury Cathedral, built to contain the shrine of Thomas Becket

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

• Corona (fictional world), part of R. A. Salvatore's DemonWars novels
• Corona, a character in the game Doraemon: Nobita to Mittsu no Seireiseki
• Corona, a character in the Spider Riders novels
• Corona, a fictional kingdom in the animated film Tangled
• Corona Mountain, the last level in Super Mario Sunshine

Literature

• Corona (novel), a Star Trek novel by Greg Bear
• "Corona", a poem by Paul Celan
• "Corona", a short story by Samuel R. Delany

Music

• Corona (band), an Italian music group best known for the hit single "The Rhythm of the Night"
• Corona, a group of people at a cantus (Dutch drinking and singing party)
• The Coronas, a rock band from Dublin
• "Corona" (song), by The Minutemen
• Corona (Takemitsu), a composition by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu
• Corona, the circle of clergy or singers who surround the altar, and origin of the term choir
• La corona (Gluck), an opera
• Corona Capital, music festival

Film

• La Corona (film), a 2008 short film
• Corona (film), a 2020 film

Games

• Corona (solitaire), a card game

People

• Corona (surname) (including a list of people with the name)
• Saint Corona, 2nd-century Christian saint
• Corona (footballer) (born 1981), Spanish footballer
• Corona Schröter (1751–1802), German musician, singer and composer
• Corona Rintawan (born 1975), Indonesian physician

Places

United States

• Corona, California, a city in California
• Corona, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in Minnesota
• Corona, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Missouri
• Corona, New Mexico, a village in New Mexico
• Corona, Queens, a neighborhood in New York City
• Corona, South Dakota, a town in South Dakota
• Corona, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Tennessee

Europe

• Brașov (Medieval Latin name Corona), a city in Romania
• Corona Theatre School, in London

Central America

• Estadio Corona, a Mexican stadium
• La Corona, an ancient Maya city in Guatemala

Products and companies

• Corona (beer), a Mexican beer brand
• Corona (soft drink), a former brand of carbonated drinks
• Corona (confectioner), an Egyptian confectionery and chocolate company
• Corona (restaurant), in the Netherlands
• Corona Data Systems, a supplier of IBM PC compatible computers in the 1980s
• Corona Typewriter Company, manufacturer of the Corona typewriter, merged into Smith Corona in 1926
• Corona (software), a mobile app creation tool
• Corona, a hardware revision of Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console including "Slim" and "E" variants

Science

Astronomy and space

• Stellar corona, the outer atmosphere of a star
• Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown constellation
• Corona Australis, the Southern Crown constellation
• Corona (optical phenomenon), in which coloured rings appear around the Sun or the Moon
• Corona (planetary geology), a planetary feature
• Corona (satellite), a 1959–1972 United States reconnaissance program
• CORONA (SSTO), a Russian prototype unmanned rocket

Biology

• Corona (gastropod), a genus of large tropical land snails
• Corona (perianth), a structure in some plants
• Corona, two ciliated anterior lobes of a rotifer
• Corona of glans penis

Mathematics

• Corona theorem (or corona conjecture) about the corona of the unit disk in complex analysis
• Corona algebra (or corona) of a C*-algebra
• Corona graph product, a possible result of a binary operation on two graphs
• Corona set (or corona), of a topological space

Physics

• Corona, the last phase of a drop's impact on a liquid surface
• Corona discharge or corona effect, an electrical discharge around a conductor
• Corona poling, treatment of a material to enhance electro-optic properties

Transport

• Toyota Corona, an automobile

Maritime

• French frigate Corona (1807), a Hortense-Class ship
• MS Svea Corona, a former car–passenger ferry
• SS Corona, a Finnish cargo ship built in 1922 and scrapped in 1960
• USS Corona (SP-813), a yacht used by the US Navy during World War I

Rail

• Corona station (Edmonton), a light rail station in Canada
• Corona (LIRR station), former railroad station in the US

Other uses

• Corona (typeface), a 1941 font
• Operation Corona, a British Second World War initiative
• Corona, a type of cigar

See also

• Carona (disambiguation)
• Coroana (disambiguation)
• Corona Line (disambiguation)
• Korona (disambiguation)
• Koruna (disambiguation)
• Krona (disambiguation)
• Crown (disambiguation)