Mercury
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Mercury usually refers to:
- Mercury (element), a metal
- Mercury (planet)
- Mercury (mythology), a Roman god
Mercury may also refer to:
Places
- Mercury Bay, on the North Island of New Zealand
- Mercury 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, any of several ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Mercury, any of several ships of the United States Navy
- Boeing E-6 Mercury, an American aircraft used as an airborne command post and communications relay
- Miles Mercury, a British aircraft designed during the Second World War
- Russian brig Mercury, a warship
Transportation
- Mercury (automobile), produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1938 to 2011
- Mercury (cyclecar), an American cyclecar from 1914
- Mercury (train), a family of New York Central streamliner passenger trains (1936–1958)
- Blackburn Mercury, a British aircraft from 1911
- Bristol Mercury, a nine-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, 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), 2008, 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 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, a Marvel comics race of superhumans
- Mercury, a member of the Metal Men, a DC comics team
- Mercury, a member of Cerebro's X-Men
Other
- Mercury (TV series), from Australia
- Mercury (novel), 2005, by Ben Bova
- Mercury, a novel by Anna Kavan
- Sailor Mercury, a character in the Sailor Moon franchise
- Archer Maclean's Mercury, a PlayStation Portable video game
Technology
- Project Mercury, the first United States human spaceflight program
- Mercury (satellite)
- Mercury (cipher machine)
Computing
- Mercury Interactive, a software testing tools vendor
- Mercury (programming language)
- Mercury Systems, a defense-related information technology company
- Ferranti Mercury, an early 1950s commercial computer
- Mercury Autocode, a programming language for the Ferranti Mercury computer
- Mercury Mail Transport System, an email server
Sports
- Edmonton Mercurys, a 1940s and 1950s 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), any of several 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
- The Mercury Mall, a shopping centre in Romford, England
- Mercury Provident, a former British ethical bank
People
- Mercury (name), any of several people with that surname or given name
- Mercury Morris, former American football player
Other uses
- Mercury dime, a United States coin minted from 1916 through 1945
- Mercury (plant), members of the plant genus Mercurialis
- Mercury 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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