Gold (disambiguation)

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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:

[edit] Business

  • Barrick Gold, the largest gold mining company in the world
  • Gold's Gym, international chain of fitness centers originally started in California by Joe Gold

[edit] 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

[edit] Color theory

[edit] Computer science

  • AntiVirus Gold, a piece of malware that poses as a legitimate antivirus program
  • Gold Box, a series of computer role-playing games produced by SSI
  • Gold release, the final development stage in software engineering when software is deemed ready for mass release
  • GOLD (IEEE), Graduates of the Last Decade, an IEEE program designed to garner more student members at the university level
  • GOLD (parser), an open source BNF parser
  • Gathered or linked data in the staging tables of a data warehouse
  • Gold (linker), a linker designed to be faster than GNU ld

[edit] Economics

  • e-gold, digital gold currency operated by Gold & Silver Reserve Inc. under e-gold Ltd.
  • Gold as an investment, the use of the precious metal gold as an investment
  • Gold certificate, certificate of ownership that gold owners hold instead of storing the actual gold
  • Gold coin, one of the oldest forms of money
  • Gold Fixing, the procedure by which the price of gold is set on the London market by the five members of the London Gold Pool
  • 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, the assets in gold transferred by Nazi Germany to overseas banks during the Second World War

[edit] Ethnic groups

  • Gold is an old name for Nanai people, used in the old (19th century) literature

[edit] Fiction

  • Michael Jon Carter, fictional comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe who goes by the name of Booster Gold.
  • Gold (Pokémon character), main character in Pokémon Adventures and Pokémon Gold

[edit] Film

[edit] Literature

[edit] Medicine

  • The Gold Journal is the common name for the journal Urology.

[edit] Music

An album or a single is certified "gold" when it sells a certain number of copies. See Music recording sales certification for details.

[edit] People

  • Andrew Gold (born 1951), singer and songwriter
  • Ernest Gold (born 1921), 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
  • Michael Gold ,science writer, editor
  • Mike Gold (1893-1967), American literary critic
  • Ted Gold (born 1947), radical Columbia University student leader

[edit] Technology

  • Gold box (phreaking), phreaking box whose function is to create a bridge between two telephone lines
  • Gold extraction, combination of comminution, mineral processing, hydrometallurgical, and pyrometallurgical processes
  • Gold mining, the processes and techniques employed in the removal of gold from the ground
  • Gold code, a code used in telecommunications
  • Gold (linker), an open source linker released by Google

[edit] Media

  • ANT1 Gold, spin-off satellite channel from Antenna Group
  • UKTV Gold, British television channel
  • Classic Gold Digital Network, a former British radio network
  • Gold, a British radio network created in 2007 as a result of the merger of the Classic Gold Digital Network and Capital Gold network

[edit] Other

  • Acapulco gold, legendary potent strain of marijuana originating in Mexico
  • Gold Base, 500 acre parcel and the headquarters of Golden Era Productions
  • Gold Country, California, United States
  • Gold medal, gold-plated medal which represents the highest award for an achievement in a non-military field
  • Gold Silver Bronze command structure, hierarchical framework used by emergency services in the UK
  • Gold standard (test), the diagnostic test that is regarded as definitive in determining whether an individual has a disease process
  • Gold teeth, popular fashion trend amongst devotees to hip hop culture in the United States
  • Gold-plating, practise of national bodies exceeding the terms of European Community directives when implementing them into national law
  • Gold Party, a party based in Florence, Italy
  • Pokémon Gold, Super Game Boy and Game Boy Color enhanced video game for the Nintendo Game Boy
  • Gold Prince, famous Pony of the Americas sire

[edit] See also