Mark

Mark may refer to:

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

Business

• Service mark, trademark used to identify a service rather than a product
• Trade mark, distinctive sign of some kind which is used by a business to uniquely identify itself and its products and services
• The victim in a confidence trick
• "mark.", a product line from Avon Products

Christianity

• Curse and mark of Cain, Cain's inability to harvest crops and the necessity that he led a nomadic lifestyle
• Gospel of Mark, one of the books of the Bible
• Secret Gospel of Mark, apocryphal
• Mark the Evangelist (Saint Mark)
• Mark of the Beast, a sign or number mentioned in the Book of Revelation
• 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

Currency

• Mark (money), 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
  • Deutsche 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. It is 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, Somerset, a village in Somerset, United Kingdom
• 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

Mythology

• Mark of Cornwall, a figure from Arthurian legend
• Mark, a satyr, a legend in Ancient Greece, regarded as a god in Thebes.

Sports

In both Australian rules football and rugby union, a clean catch from a kick by another player results in a free kick. See:

• Mark (Australian football)
• Mark (rugby)

Technology

• Harvard Mark I, the first large-scale automatic digital computer in the USA
• Mark (designation), level of development
• Mark frequency, extreme discrete value of frequency-shift keying

Other

• Beauty mark, dark mole on the face or other part of the body that is considered to be attractive
• Tick (check mark)
• Diacritical mark, mark added to a letter to alter a word's pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words
• Mark of Rohan, fictional realm in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy era of Middle-earth. See also Marches
• Mark, a grade awarded to students' work
• Merchant's Mark
• Sea mark, pilotage aid which identifies the approximate position of a maritime channel, hazard and administrative area
• Tread mark (disambiguation), various meanings
• Skid mark, a mark left by a tire tread during a skid
• A fan of professional wrestling, notably, one who treats professional wrestling as real and not scripted
• Makers mark (stamp) or marking to signify maker of original artwork, frequently used in ceramic art
• "Mark", a song from Change Giver by Shed Seven

See also

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

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