Marine

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Marine is an adjective that means of, or pertaining to, the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology. In scientific contexts, marine almost always refers to seawater environments. In other contexts (e.g., engineering) it may refer to any navigable body of water.

Marine or marines may also refer to:

Military / seafarers

Marines, an infantry force that specializes in naval campaigns
- such as the United States Marine Corps
In the French Armed Forces's Troupes de Marine, they are part of the French Army unlike the Navy's Marine Corps
- such as the 11th Marine Artillery Regiment
Merchant marine, or merchant navy, the fleet of merchant vessels registered in a country
A term for a navy, uncommon in English, but common in other languages
- Koninklijke Marine Royal Netherlands Navy the navy of the Dutch Armed Forces
- German Navy, the navy of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr)

Marine art, the depiction of the sea in art
Marine (book), a book about the United States Marine Corps written by Tom Clancy in 1996
The Marine, a film
Marine F.C., an English football club from Merseyside
Marines F.C., a Rwandan football club from Gisenyi
Chiba Lotte Marines, a Japanese professional baseball team
Space Marine, in science fiction, a soldier who serves aboard a spacecraft and/or who is trained to fight in space or in planetary attacks
Marine, a Terran ground unit in the Starcraft series.
Marine the Raccoon, an extra-dimensional character first appearing in Sonic Rush Adventure
"The Marines", an episode of the Adult Swim animated television series, Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Marine (given name)
- Marine Le Pen, a French politician
- Marine Petrossian, an Armenian poet, essayist and columnist.
David Marine (1888–1976), an American pathologist who tested the use of iodide to prevent goiters in schoolgirls, which led to the iodization of salt
Jean-Christophe Marine (born 1968), a Belgian molecular biologist
Joseph E. Marine (1905–1998), New York state senator

Adriana Marines (1992-1997), a Mexican-American girl in Texas whose murder sparked a major outcry