A metal is a material that is typically hard, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity.

Metal may also refer to:

People with the name

  • Tamara Metal (1933–2022), Israeli Olympic high jumper and long jumper, and captain of the Israel women's national basketball team

Places

  • Metal Township, Pennsylvania, US

Art and entertainment

Music

  • Metal music or heavy metal music

Albums

  • Metal (Annihilator album)
  • Metal (Pierre Estève album)
  • Metal (Manilla Road album) or its title track
  • Metal (Preston Reed album) or its title track
  • Metal (EP), by Newsted
  • Metals (album), by Feist

Songs

  • "Metal" (song), a song by Gary Numan from The Pleasure Principle
  • "Metal", a song by Jimmy Edgar and Sophie from Cheetah Bend
  • "Metal", a song by the Beths from Straight Line Was a Lie
  • "The Metal", a song by Tenacious D from The Pick of Destiny

Other uses in art and entertainment

  • Metal (magazine), an Argentine former heavy metal magazine
  • Metal.de, German-language online magazine
  • Métal, a 1928 portfolio by Germaine Krull
  • Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, a documentary
  • Metal Sonic, a character in Sonic the Hedgehog

Other uses

  • Metal (API), a graphics API from Apple for iOS and macOS
  • Metal (wuxing), a phase of the Chinese philosophy of Wu Xing
  • Metals, an academic journal on metallurgy and related topics.
  • Metals, types of tincture in heraldry
  • Road metal, the crushed stone used for road surfaces and railway track ballast

See also

  • Metallicity: in astronomy, a "metal" is any element other than hydrogen or helium
  • Medal (disambiguation)
  • Meddle (disambiguation)
  • Mettle (disambiguation)
  • Metel (disambiguation)
  • Metallic (disambiguation)
  • Metal Industries (disambiguation)
  • Metal on Metal (disambiguation)
  • Metal pair (disambiguation)
  • Metal rock (disambiguation)
  • Precious metal (disambiguation)
  • Bare metal (disambiguation)