Corona

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Corona (from the Latin for 'crown') most commonly refers to:

• Stellar corona, the outer atmosphere of the Sun or another star
• Corona (beer), a Mexican beer
• Corona, informal term for the coronavirus or disease responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic:
  • SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
  • COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019

Corona may also refer to:

Architecture

• Corona, a part of a cornice
• The Corona, Canterbury Cathedral, the east end of Canterbury Cathedral

Businesses and brands

Food and drink

• Corona (beer), a Mexican beer brand
• Corona (confectioner), Egypt
• Corona (restaurant), in the Netherlands
• Corona (soft drink), a former brand

Technology

• Corona (software), a mobile app creation tool
• Corona Data Systems, 1980s microcomputer supplier
• Corona Labs Inc., an American software company
• Corona Typewriter Company, merged into Smith Corona in 1926
• Corona, a version of Microsoft's Xbox 360
• Chaos Corona, rendering software

Entertainment, arts and media

Fictional entities

• Corona (fictional world), in R. A. Salvatore's DemonWars novels
• Corona, a character in the game Doraemon: Nobita to Mittsu no Seireiseki
• Corona, a character in the Spider Riders novels
• Corona, a fictional kingdom in the animated film Tangled
• Corona Mountain, the last level in Super Mario Sunshine

Film

• Corona (film), a 2020 Canadian thriller drama film
• La Corona (film), a 2008 American short film
• Corona Zombies, a 2020 American comedy horror film
• 1-2-3 Corona, a 1948 East German film

Games

• Corona (solitaire), a card game

Literature

• Crown of sonnets, a type of sonnet sequence
• Corona (novel), a Star Trek novel by Greg Bear
• "Corona", a poem by Paul Celan
• "Corona", a short story by Samuel R. Delany

Music

• Corona (band), an Italian music group
• Corona, people at a cantus (Dutch drinking and singing party)
• The Coronas, an Irish rock band
• "Corona" (song), by The Minutemen
• Corona (Takemitsu), by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu
• Corona, the circle of clergy or singers who surround the altar, and origin of the term choir
• La corona (Gluck), an opera
• Corona Capital, music festival

People

• Corona (surname) (including a list of people with the name)
• Saint Corona, 2nd-century Christian saint
• Corona (footballer) (born 1981), Spanish footballer
• Corona Rintawan (born 1975), Indonesian physician
• Corona Schröter (1751–1802), German musician, singer and composer

Places

United States

• Corona, Alabama, an unincorporated community
• Corona, California, a city
• Corona, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
• Corona, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Corona, New Mexico, a village
• Corona, Queens, New York City, New York, a neighborhood
• Corona, South Dakota, a town
• Corona, Tennessee, an unincorporated community

Elsewhere

• Corona Lodge, Berea, Gauteng, South Africa
• Corona Station (pastoral lease), New South Wales, Australia
• Corona Theatre School, in London, England
• Estadio Corona, a stadium in Mexico
• La Corona, an ancient Mayan city in Guatemala
• Brașov, Romania (Medieval Latin name Corona), a city
• Corona, Cuba, a hamlet

Science

Astronomy and space

• Stellar corona, the outer atmosphere of a star
• Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown constellation
• Corona Australis, the Southern Crown constellation
• Corona (optical phenomenon), coloured rings around Sun or Moon
• Corona (planetary geology)
• CORONA (rocket), a Russian prototype
• CORONA (satellite), a 1959–1972 US satellite series

Biology

• Coronavirus, a group of RNA viruses
  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a coronavirus responsible for the 2019–present pandemic
    • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by the virus
    • COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing global pandemic
• Corona (gastropod), a genus of large tropical land snails
• Corona (perianth), in the corolla of some flowering plants
• Corona, anterior lobes of a rotifer
• Corona of glans penis
• Corona ciliaris, a part of the human eye

Mathematics

• Corona theorem (or conjecture) in complex analysis
• Corona algebra (or corona) of a C*-algebra
• Corona graph product, a kind of binary operation on two graphs
• Corona set (or corona), of a topological space

Physics

• Corona (fluid dynamics), the last phase of a drop's impact on a liquid surface
• Corona discharge or corona effect, an electrical discharge around a conductor
• Corona poling, treatment of a material to enhance electro-optic properties

Transportation

Automobiles

• Toyota Corona, a 1957–2001 Japanese compact car

Rail

• Corona station (Edmonton), a light rail station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Corona station (LIRR), a former railroad station in New York City, New York, US
• IRT Flushing Line, a New York City Subway line, formerly called the Corona Line

Watercraft

• French frigate Corona (1807)
• MS Svea Corona, a former car–passenger ferry
• SS Corona, a Finnish cargo ship 1922−1960
• USS Corona (SP-813), a yacht used by the US Navy in WWI

Other uses

• Corona (typeface), a font
• Operation Corona, a British WWII operation
• Corona, a type of cigar

See also

• Carona (disambiguation)
• Coroana (disambiguation)
• Corona Line (disambiguation)
• Korona (disambiguation)
• Koruna (disambiguation)
• Krona (disambiguation)
• Crown (disambiguation)

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