Mask (disambiguation)

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A mask is a piece of material or kit worn on the face.

Mask or masks may also refer to:

In artistry:

• Golden mask, a mask of a Thracian king
• Korean mask, a piece of Korean art

In medicine:

• Death mask, a mask made following death
• Facial mask, a cosmetic substance used in facials to clear pores
• Oxygen mask, a piece of medical equipment
• Surgical mask, a piece of medical equipment

In music:

• Mask (album), an album by Vangelis
• Mask (Bauhaus album), an album by Bauhaus
• MASK (band), a Japanese indie visual kei band

In safety:

• Diving mask, an item of diving equipment that allows scuba divers, free-divers, and snorkelers to see clearly underwater
• Filter mask, a piece of safety equipment
• Gas mask, a mask worn on the face to protect the body from airborne pollutants and toxic materials

In sports:

• Goalie mask, a mask worn by an ice or field hockey goaltender to protect the head from injury
• Wrestling mask, a mask most widely used in the Mexican/Latin lucha libre style of wrestling

In technology:

• Affinity mask, a bit mask indicating what processor a thread or process should be run on by the scheduler of an operating system
• Mask (computing), some data in computer science that are used in order to extract information stored elsewhere
• Shadow mask, one of two major technologies used to manufacture cathode ray tube televisions and computer displays that produce color images
• Spectral mask, a mathematically-defined set of lines applied to the levels of radio transmissions in telecommunications

In television:

• M.A.S.K., an animated TV series based on a line of toys
• "Masks" (TNG episode), a seventh season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
• "The Masks", an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone
• The Mask: The Animated Series, an animated television series

In film:

• Mask (film), a 1985 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich
• The Mask (film), a 1994 Oscar-nominated comedy film based on the comic book series of the same name
• The Mask (1961 film), a low-budget Canadian horror film produced in 3-D and released in 1961 by Warner Bros
• Son of the Mask, a 2005 sequel to the 1994 film

In other fields:

• Mask (god), the calculating, mysterious god of shadows, thievery, and thieves in the Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms setting
• Mask (Mugbook), an online student directory of Walla Walla College
• Mask Trilogy, three award-winning German-style board games designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling
• Masks (Angel comic), a comic based on the Angel television series
• The Mask, a comic book series which was later made into an Oscar-nominated film
• The Mask (video game), a Super NES side-scrolling action game

[edit] See also

• Behind the Mask
• Black Mask (disambiguation)
• Man in the Iron Mask (disambiguation)
• Marske
• Masque (disambiguation)
• The Mask (disambiguation)