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Mark may refer to:
- Mark (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
- Brandenburg, a federal state in Northeast Germany, often colloquially called die Mark, after its historical predecessor, the Markgraftschaft Brandenburg
- 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 (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)
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