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Gold is a highly sought-after precious metal that for many centuries has been used as money.

Gold may also refer to:

Businesses

• Barrick Gold, the largest gold mining company in the world
• Gold's Gym, international chain of fitness centers

In economics

• Gold coin, one of the oldest forms of money
• Gold as an investment, the use of the precious metal gold as an investment
• Gold certificate, a certificate proving ownership of gold
• Gold Fixing, a procedure by which the price of gold is set on the London market
• Gold gram, the amount of value represented by exactly one gram of gold
• Gold standard, monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold
• Nazi gold, assets in gold transferred by Nazi Germany to overseas banks during the Second World War
• e-gold, a digital gold currency, operated by Gold & Silver Reserve Inc.

In science and technology

• Gold standard (test), in medicine, a diagnostic test of disease
• GOLD (ontology), an ontology for descriptive linguistics

In chemistry

• Colloidal gold, suspension of sub-micrometre-sized particles of gold in a fluid
• Gold chalcogenides, gold compounds with anions from periodic table group 16
• Gold halide, metal halide
• Gold plating, method of depositing a thin layer of gold on the surface of other metal
• Rose gold, gold and copper alloy widely used for specialized jewelry due to its reddish color
• White gold, alloy of gold and at least one white metal

In color theory

• Gold (color), shade of the metal gold
• Old Gold, dark yellow

In technology

• AntiVirus Gold, a piece of malware that poses as a legitimate anti-virus program
• Gold Box, a series of computer role-playing games produced by SSI
• Gold release, the final development stage in software engineering
• GOLD (parser), an open source Backus-Naur form parser
• Gold (linker), a linker designed to be faster than GNU ld
• Gold box (phreaking), a box whose function is to create a bridge between two telephone lines
• Gold code, a code used in telecommunications

In entertainment

Film

• Crimson Gold, Iranian movie directed by Jafar Panahi
• Gold (1934 film), a 1934 German film
• Gold (1974 film), 1974 film starring Roger Moore
• Ulee's Gold, 1997 film written and directed by Victor Nuñez

Literature

• "The Gold-Bug", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• "Gold" (Asimov short story), a science fiction story
• Gold Digger (comic book), a manga-style comic book series
• Inca Gold, a book written by Clive Cussler

Music

• Gold album, an album or single that has sold a minimum number of copies
• "Gold" (Beverley Knight song), 2002
• "Gold" (Prince song), 1995
• "Gold" (B'z song), 2001
• Gold (album) (disambiguation)
• Gold (album series), a series of double-CD compilations released by Universal music
• Gold (band), a French band
• "Gold" (Spandau Ballet song), 1983
• Gold CD, a compact disc where gold is used instead of aluminium
• Gold City, a Southern gospel group
• "Gold Digger", 2005 single recorded by Kanye West

Television

• ANT1 Gold, a spin-off satellite channel from Antenna Group
• G.O.L.D., a British television channel
• Ethan Gold, fictional character on the television series Queer as Folk

Radio

• Gold (radio), a British radio network created in 2007
• Classic Gold Digital Network, a former British radio network
• Classic Gold, a number of radio stations which were operated in the Yorkshire area

In other entertainment

• Booster Gold, fictional comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe
• Pokémon Gold, a video game for the Nintendo Game Boy
  • Gold (Pokémon), main character in Pokémon Adventures and Pokémon Gold games

People

• Andrew Gold (born 1951), singer and songwriter
• Ernest Gold (born 1921), composer and father of Andrew Gold
• Jamie Gold (born 1969), winner of the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event
• Katie Gold (born 1978), pornographic actress
• Lex Gold (born 1940), football administrator
• Mike Gold (1893-1967), American literary critic
• Ted Gold (born 1947), radical Columbia University student leader
• Tom Gold, New York City Ballet soloist

Other uses

• Acapulco gold, a potent strain of marijuana originating in Mexico
• Gold Base, international headquarters of the Church of Scientology
• Gold Country, a region in the central-and-north-eastern part of California, United States
• Gold medal, gold-plated medal which represents the highest award for an achievement in a non-military field
• Gold-plating, practice of national bodies exceeding the terms of European Community directives when implementing them into national law
• Gold Silver Bronze command structure, hierarchical framework used by emergency services in the UK
• Gold teeth, a form of dental prosthesis
• Gold Prince, a Pony of the Americas sire
• Gold, an old name for Nanai people, used in 19th century literature

See also

• Black gold
• Fool's Gold (disambiguation)
• Gold Beach (disambiguation)
• Gold Coast
• Gold Cup
• Gold line
• Gold River
• Gold rush (disambiguation)
• Gold star
• Heart of Gold
• US Gold (disambiguation)

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