Mercury
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Mercury usually refers to:
- Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element
- Mercury (planet), the planet closest to the Sun
- Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
Mercury may also refer to:
Places
- Mercury Bay, on the North Island of New Zealand
- Mercury Islands, a group of islands off the northeast coast of New Zealand
- Mercury, Nevada, a closed city within the Nevada Test Site, United States
- Mercury, Savoie, a commune in southeastern France
In the military
- Operation Mercury, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II
- HMS Mercury, the name of several ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Mercury, the name of several ships of the United States Navy
- Boeing E-6 Mercury, an American airborne command post and communications relay introduced in 1989
- Miles Mercury, a British aircraft designed during the Second World War
- Russian brig Mercury, a warship
Transportation
- Mercury (automobile), a marque of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company (1938–2011)
- Mercury (cyclecar), an American cyclecar from 1914
- Mercury (train), a family of New York Central streamliner passenger trains (1936–1958)
- Blackburn Mercury, British aircraft from 1911
- Bristol Mercury, a 9-cylinder aircraft engine
- Mercury, Shuttle America's callsign
- Mercury Marine, a major manufacturer of marine engines, particularly outboard motors
- Mercury Boulevard, a road in Virginia, United States
In popular culture
Music
- Mercury Records, a record label
- Freddie Mercury, the frontman for the rock group Queen
- Daniela Mercury, Brazilian singer, songwriter and record producer
- Mercury (Longview album)
- Mercury (American Music Club album)
- Mercury (Madder Mortem album)
- "Mercury" (song), a 2008 song by Bloc Party
- "Mercury", a song by Kathleen Edwards from Failer
- "Mercury", a song by Counting Crows from Recovering the Satellites
- "Mercury, the Winged Messenger", a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets
- Mercury Prize, an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom
Comics
- Mercury (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character who can turn herself into a mercurial substance
- Mercury (Amalgam Comics), a combination of the characters Impulse and Quicksilver
- Makkari (comics) or Mercury, an Eternal
- Mercury, a member of the Metal Men, a DC comics team
- Mercury, a member of Cerebro's X-Men
Other
- Mercury (TV series), an Australian TV series launched in 1996
- Mercury (novel), a 2005 novel by Ben Bova
- Mercury, a novel by Anna Kavan posthumously published in 1994
- Sailor Mercury, a character in the Sailor Moon franchise
- Archer Maclean's Mercury, the first in a series of games developed and/or published by Ignition Entertainment
Technology
- Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program of the United States
- Mercury (satellite), a series of three American satellites
- Mercury (cipher machine), a British cipher machine used from the 1950s
Computing
- Mercury Interactive, software testing tools vendor
- Mercury (programming language), a functional/logical programming language based on Prolog
- Mercury Systems, a real-time operating system for embedded systems
- Ferranti Mercury, an early 1950s commercial computer
- Mercury Autocode, a programming language for the Ferranti Mercury computer
- Mercury Mail Transport System, a standards-compliant donationware mail server
Sports
- Edmonton Mercurys, a 1940s and 50s intermediate ice hockey team from Canada
- Phoenix Mercury, a Women's National Basketball Association team from Arizona, United States
- Toledo Mercurys, a defunct International Hockey League franchise from Ohio, United States
- Fujita Soccer Club Mercury, a Japanese women's football team from 1989 to 1999
Media
- Mercury (magazine), an astronomy magazine
- Mercury (newspaper), the name of many English-language newspapers
- Mercury FM, a radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom
- Mercury 96.6, present-day Heart Hertfordshire, a radio station in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
In business
- Mercury Communications, a British telecommunications firm set up in the 1980s
- Mercury Drug, a Philippine pharmacy chain
- Mercury Insurance Group, an American automobile and property insurance company
- The Mercury Mall, a shopping centre in Romford, England
People
- Mercury (name), a list of people with the surname or given name
- Mercury Morris, nickname of American National Football League former player Eugene Edward Morris
Other uses
- Mercury dime, a United States coin minted from 1916 through 1945
- Mercury (plant), members of the plant genus Mercurialis
- Mercury Fountain, a fountain in Tom Quad, Christ Church College, Oxford, England
See also
- Mercur (disambiguation)
- Mercurius (disambiguation)
- Mercury 1 (disambiguation)
- Mercury 2 (disambiguation)
- Mercury 3 (disambiguation)
- Mercury 4 (disambiguation)
- Mercury House (disambiguation)
- Mercury program (disambiguation)
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