Metal (disambiguation)

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A metal is a material that is typically hard, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity.

Metal may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Metals, types of tincture in heraldry
• Metal (Wu Xing), one of the five Wu Xing
• Métal, a portfolio by photographer Germaine Krull (1897–1985)
• Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, a documentary
• Metal (magazine), a former Argentine heavy metal magazine

Music

• Heavy metal music, often referred to as "metal"

Albums

• Metal (Annihilator album)
• Metal (Pierre Estève album)
• Metal (Manilla Road album), or the title track
• Metal (Preston Reed album), or the title track
• Metals (Feist album)
• Metal (EP), an EP by Newsted

Songs

• "Metal" (song), by Gary Numan on the album The Pleasure Principle
• "The Metal", a song on the Tenacious D album The Pick of Destiny

Computing

• "Metal", the default look and feel for GUI applications in Java Swing
• Metal (API), a graphics API from Apple for iOS and OS X

Other uses

• Metal Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, US
• Road metal, the crushed stone used for road surfaces and railway track ballast
• Tamara Metal (born 1933), Israeli Olympic high jumper and long jumper, and captain of the Israel women's national basketball team

See also

• Metal Sonic, a character in Sonic the Hedgehog
• Metallicity, the proportion of elements other than hydrogen and helium in matter
• Heavy metal (disambiguation)
• Metal Master (disambiguation)