Mark

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Mark may refer to:

• Mark (given name), a male given name
• Mark (surname)

Christianity

• Gospel of Mark, one of the books of the Bible
• Mark the Evangelist (Saint Mark), traditional author of this Gospel
• John Mark, a New Testament figure usually identified with the Evangelist
• 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
• Secret Gospel of Mark, an apocryphal gospel
• Mark of the Beast, a sign or number mentioned in the Book of Revelation

Currency

• Mark (currency), 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
  • German 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, 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, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran
• Mark, Somerset, a village in Somerset, England
• 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
• Mark, a grade awarded to students' work

Mythology

• Mark of Cornwall, a figure from Arthurian legend
• Mark of Cain, a story from Genesis

Sports

• A clean catch from a kick by another player resulting in a free kick in some varieties of football
  • Mark (Australian football)
  • Mark (rugby)
• Mark (association football), a type of defensive strategy
• Mark (professional wrestling), a wrestling fan who does not realize, or chooses not to believe, that professional wrestling is staged

Surgery

• Mini Asymmetric Radial Keratotomy (M.A.R.K.), eye surgery procedure

Technology

• Harvard Mark I, the first large-scale automatic digital computer in the USA
• Mark (designation), a synonym of "version", usually used as "Mark (number) (object)" e.g., "Mark 1 Grenade"
• Mark frequency, extreme discrete value of frequency-shift keying

Other

• Beauty mark, euphemism for birthmark
• Birthmark or birth mark, a benign, congenital irregularity on the skin
• Check mark
• Diacritic, a mark added to a letter to alter a word's pronunciation or meaning
• Hallmark, a mark that identifies the maker of an object made of precious metal
• Maker's mark, a stamp or marking to signify maker of an object, used in ceramic art and fields
• Mark, the intended victim of a confidence trick
• "Mark", a song from Change Giver by Shed Seven
• Mark of Rohan (Middle-earth), place in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional realm
• Merchant's Mark
• Sea mark, pilotage aid that identifies the approximate position of a maritime channel, hazard and administrative area
• Skid mark, a mark left by a tire tread during a skid
• Tread mark (disambiguation), various meanings

See also

• All pages beginning with "Mark"
• All pages with titles containing Mark
• The Mark (disambiguation)
• Marks (disambiguation)
• Marque (disambiguation)
• Marker (disambiguation)
• Mac (disambiguation)
• Mach (disambiguation)
• Mack (disambiguation)
• Mak (disambiguation)
• Marc (disambiguation)