Master

Template:Sister project Master, master's or masters may refer to:

Ranks or titles

Education

• Master (college), head of a college
• Master's degree, a postgraduate or sometimes undergraduate degree in the specified discipline
• Schoolmaster or master, presiding officer of a school

Marine or naval

• Master (naval), a former naval rank
• Master mariner, a licensed mariner who is qualified to be a sea captain in the merchant marine
• Master or shipmaster, the sea captain of a merchant vessel
• Master-at-arms, a naval police officer, often addressed as "Master" in the Royal Navy

Orders and organizations

• Master craftsman, in the Medieval guilds

Other

• Master (form of address), an English honorific for boys and young men
• Master (judiciary), a judicial official in the courts of common law jurisdictions
• Master (Peerage of Scotland), the male heir-apparent or heir-presumptive to a title in the Peerage of Scotland
• Master of ceremonies, or MC (emcee), the host of an official public or private staged event or other performance
• Maestro, an orchestral conductor, or the master within some other musical discipline
• Old Master, a term for a recognized Western painter active before circa 1800
• Station master, formerly the person in charge of railway stations
• Slave master, an owner of victims of slavery

Aircraft and vehicles

• Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master, an Italian military transonic trainer aircraft
• Miles Master, a British 2-seat training aircraft during the Second World War
• Renault Master, a van

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Master (Manos), the head villain in the horror movie Manos: The Hands of Fate
• Masters (The Tripods), a fictional race of beings in John Christopher's The Tripods trilogy
• Master (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a recurring villain in the fantasy television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Master (Master and Margarita), a character from the Mikhail Bulgakov novel
• The Master (Doctor Who), a recurring villain in the science fiction television series Doctor Who
  • The Master (The Doctor Who Role Playing Game), a supplement for The Doctor Who Role-playing Game about The Doctor's nemesis
• The Master (Fallout), a character in the 1997 video game Fallout
• The Master, a nickname for Ancient One (Marvel Comics)
• The Master, the player's character in the Nintendo game series ActRaiser
• The Master, an optional three-time boss Toad Sensei in Paper Mario
• The Master, a title character in the novel The Master and Margarita
• The Master, the main (and mostly absent) villain from Power Rangers Mystic Force
• The Master, a character from the Adult Swim television series The Venture Bros.
• The Master, character in the manga series Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!

Films

• Master (1997 film), an Indian Telugu-language film
• Master (2016 film), a South Korean film
• Master (2021 film), an Indian Tamil-language film
• Master (2022 film), an American film
• The Master (1980 film), a Hong Kong film
• The Master (1992 film), a Hong Kong film
• The Master (2005 film), a Polish film
• The Master (2009 film), a Turkish film
• The Master (2012 film), an American film
• The Master (2015 film), a Chinese film
• The Master (2016 film), an animated Lego short
• Masters (film), a 2011 Indian Malayalam-language film

Literature

• The Master (novel), a 2004 novel by Colm Tóibín
• The Masters (novel), a 1951 novel in the Strangers and Brothers sequence by C. P. Snow
• The Master: An Adventure Story, a 1957 science fiction novel for children by T. H. White
• The Master of Go, a 1951 novel by Yasunari Kawabata
• The Master, an 1895 best-selling novel by Israel Zangwill
• The Master, a 2021 biography of Roger Federer by Christopher Clarey

Music and audio

• Mastering (audio), a process resulting in a master recording, also known as a master, master copy, or master tape
• Musicians and bands
  • Master (American band), a Czech-American death metal band
    • Master, their 1990 album
  • Master (Russian band), a Russian thrash metal band
    • Master, their 1987 album
  • Bojan Adamič (1912–1995), known as Master, Slovene composer of jazz, song festival and film music
• Albums (by date)
  • The Master (1961–1984), a box set album by Marvin Gaye
  • The Master... (Pepper Adams album) (1980)
  • The Master (Stan Getz album), recorded 1975, released 1982
  • The Master (Jimmy Raney album) (1983)
  • The Masters, a 1998 compilation album by The Stranglers
  • The Master (Rakim album) (1999)
  • Master, a popular designation for Yeah Yeah Yeahs (EP), a 2001 record by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  • The Master, a 2010 box set by Ravi Shankar
• Songs
  • Master Song, a song on the album Songs of Leonard Cohen
• Audio dramas
  • Master (audio drama), in the Doctor Who series (2003)
• Film soundtracks
  • Master (soundtrack), 2020 soundtrack album to the 2021 Tamil-language film Master
  • Master (score), 2021 film score to the 2021 Tamil-language film Master

Television

• The Master (American TV series), a 1984 American television series starring Lee Van Cleef that aired on NBC
• The Master (Australian game show), a 2006 Australian quiz show that aired on Seven Network
• The Master (Indonesian TV series), a 2009 Indonesian magic show television series

Other

• The Master (The Doctor Who Role Playing Game), a 1985 supplement for the role-playing game

People

• The Master (born 1970), Masami Hirosaka, Japanese radio-controlled racer
• The Master (1937-2010), ring name of King Curtis Iaukea, wrestler
• The Master (born 1954), nickname of Vietnamese-American poker player Men Nguyen
• Masters (surname)

Places

• Master, Iran, a village in Markazi Province, Iran
• Masters, Colorado, USA; a ghost town in the United States

Schools

• Master's Academy & College, Canadian school in Calgary, Alberta
• Masters School, an American independent school in New York
• Master's Degree, a type of post-graduate education received at a graduate school, for obtaining Cycle II Tertiary Education

Sport

• Masters Tournament, known as The Masters, one of the four men's golf major championships
• ATP World Tour Finals, the season-ending tournament on the ATP tour known in the past as The Masters (derived from 'Masters Grand Prix' and subsequently 'Tennis Masters Cup')

Other sports

• Senior sport, a competition age classification used by many sports for older athletes
  • Masters athletics, competition in the sport of athletics by older athletes
  • Masters cycling, competition in cycling by older athletes
  • Masters Football, six-a-side indoor football competition in UK for older athletes
  • Masters Rugby League, a derivative of rugby league for semi-retired and non-competitive players and officials
  • Masters swimming, competition in swimming by older athletes
• Masters (curling), an annual Grand Slam of Curling event
• Masters Cup (disc golf), an annual event on the disc golf PDGA tour
• PDC World Masters, a darts tournament in the Professional Darts Corporation
• Masters (snooker), professional invitational snooker tournament
• USBC Masters, professional ten-pin bowling tournament
• World Masters (darts), professional darts tournament

Other uses

• MASTER, a Russian network of telescopes
• Master (software), pseudonym AlphaGo, artificial intelligence Computer Go program
• Master Lock, a brand of padlock
• Master recordings, the original of a visual or sound recording
• Master/slave (BDSM), consensual role-playing in a sexual relationship
• Master–slave (technology), a model of communication
• Masters Home Improvement, a former Australian hardware retailer
• Master System, an 8-bit cartridge-based video game console

See also

• Grandmaster (disambiguation)
• Maestro (disambiguation)
• Master/Slave (disambiguation)
• Master of the Universe (disambiguation)
• Meister (surname)
• Metal Master (disambiguation)
• Miss (disambiguation)
• Mister (disambiguation)
• Mistress (disambiguation)
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• Marsters (surname)
• Standard (metrology), a master reference for measurements