Mercury

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Template:Wiktionary Template:TOCright Mercury, or Mercurius, derives from the Roman god Mercury (mythology). It may also refer to:

Contents 1 Science 2 Culture 3 Technology 4 Places 5 Business

Science

• Mercury (element), the chemical element also called quicksilver
• Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun in the solar system
• Mercury (plant), members of the genus Mercurialis
• Project Mercury, an early American program for launching humans into space
• Good King Henry, a species of goosefoot also called mercury or English mercury
• Inches of mercury, a measure of atmospheric pressure
• Mercurius (crater), a crater on the Moon
• USNS Mercury (T-AGM-21), a Vanguard Class Missile Range Instrumentation Ship

Culture

• Freddie Mercury, singer from the rock group Queen
• Mercury (comics), a.k.a. Cessily Kincaid, a Marvel Comics character who can turn herself into a mercurial substance
• Mercury (magazine), a popular astronomy magazine published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Mercury (Amalgam Comics), a combination of the characters Impulse and Quicksilver made for Amalgam Comics
• Mercury (TV series), an 1996 Australian television show
• Mercury FM, a commercial radio station in Surrey, United Kingdom
• Mercury 96.6, a commercial radio station in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
• Mercury dime, a coin preceding the current dime in the United States
• Mercury Music Prize, a British award
• Mercury Records, a commercial record label
• Mercury Theatre, a theatre company founded in New York by Orson Welles and John Houseman
• Mercury, the Winged Messenger, a movement in Gustav Holst's The Planets suite
• Mercury Cider, an alcoholic beverage produced by Cascade Brewery
• The Mercury (Hobart), a newspaper published in Hobart, Australia
• The Mercury (Pennsylvania), a newspaper published in Pennsylvania, United States
• Mercury (album), a 2005 music album by Long-View
• Sunday Mercury, a Sunday newspaper published in Birmingham, United Kingdom
• Mike Mercury, chief test pilot of the Supercar team
• Adam Birch, a professional wrestler with the stage name Joey Mercury
• Ami Mizuno, codenamed Sailor Mercury in the Sailor Moon franchise
• Mercury in Retrograde, a contemporary art exhibition under construction www.mercuryinretrograde.org

Technology

• Mercury (automobile), a marque of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company
• Mercury (computer), developed in the early 1950s by Ferranti and the University of Manchester computing department
• Mercury (programming language), a functional/logical programming language based on Prolog
• Mercury (SMS), a program that sends Short Message Service messages
• Mercury (cipher machine), a British cipher machine used from the 1950s.
• Mercury arc valve, a rectifier device intended for high electrical voltages/currents
• Mercury Autocode, a high-level language run by the above computer
• Mercury memory, kind of delay line memory, in use in the 1950s
• Mercury Messenger, a cross-platform Instant Messaging programme
• Mercury OS, a real-time operating system for embedded systems
• Archer Maclean's Mercury, a video game for the PlayStation Portable
• Bristol Mercury, a 9-cylinder aircraft engine

Places

• Mercury, Nevada
• Mercury, Savoie, a commune in the Savoie département of France

Business

• Mercury Communications, a now-defunct British telco
• Mercury Computer Systems, an embedded digital signal and image processing solutions provider
• Mercury Drug, a Philippine drug store chain
• Mercury Energy, an energy company in New Zealand
• Mercury Interactive, a software and consulting company
• Mercury Marine, a manufacturer of outboard motors for boats

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