Target may refer to:

Physical items

Shooting target Shooting targets are objects in various forms and shapes that are used for pistol, rifle, shotgun and other shooting sports, as well as in darts, target archery, crossbow shooting and other non-firearm related sports. The center is often call ...

, used in marksmanship training and various shooting sports **

Bullseye (target) The bullseye or bull's eye has, since 1833, been the name for the center of a target and, by extension, since 1857, has been given to any throw, toss, or shot that hits the center. In a further development, success in an endeavor in which ther ...

, the goal one for which one aims in many of these sports **

Aiming point {{Unreferenced, date=April 2007 In field artillery, the accuracy of indirect fire depends on the use of aiming points. In air force terminology the aiming point (or A.P.) refers to holding the intersection of the cross hairs on a bombsight when fixe ...

, in field artillery, fixed at a specific target *

Color chart A color chart or color reference card is a flat, physical object that has many different color samples present. They can be available as a single-page chart, or in the form of swatchbooks or color-matching fans. Typically there are two diffe ...

(or reference card), the reference target used in digital imaging for accurate color reproduction

Places

Target, Allier Target (; oc, Targiac) is a commune in the Allier department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in central France. Geography The Venant, a tributary of the Bouble The Bouble () is a long river in the Allier and Puy-de-Dôme departments in south c ...

, France *

Target Lake Target Lake is a lake in Houston County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 mi ...

, a lake in Minnesota

Terms

Target market A target market, also known as serviceable obtainable market (SOM), is a group of customers within a business's serviceable available market at which a business aims its marketing efforts and resources. A target market is a subset of the total ma ...

, marketing strategy **

Target audience A target audience is the intended audience or readership of a publication, advertisement, or other message catered specifically to said intended audience. In marketing and advertising, it is a particular group of consumer within the predetermined ...

, intended audience or readership of a publication, advertisement, or type of message * In mathematics, the target of a function is also called the

codomain In mathematics, the codomain or set of destination of a function is the set into which all of the output of the function is constrained to fall. It is the set in the notation . The term range is sometimes ambiguously used to refer to either the ...

Target (cricket) In cricket, a team's innings ends in one of the following ways. In cases 1 and 2, the team are said to be ''all out'', because they do not have two players available to bat. # All but one of the batsmen are out. # The batting side only has one ...

, the total number of runs a team needs to win

People

Target (rapper) Nenad Šimun, also known by his stage names Target or Mladi Gospar, is a Croatian rapper. He began his career in 1994. He was first in a group called "Young Lordz" but they disbanded in 1996 and soon he and General Woo formed a duo called Tram ...

, stage name of Croatian hip-hop artist Nenad Šimun * DJ Target, stage name of English grime DJ Darren Joseph, member of

Roll Deep Roll Deep (formerly Roll Deep Entourage) are a British grime crew. They were founded in 2001 by Wiley shortly before the disbandment of UK garage crew Pay As U Go Cartel. The group have had two UK No. 1 singles, " Good Times" and " Green Ligh ...

Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target Gui-Jean-Baptiste Target (, 17 December 1733 – 9 September 1806) was a French lawyer and politician. Biography Born in Paris, Target was the son of a lawyer, and was himself a lawyer to the Parlement of Paris. He acquired a great reputation as ...

(1733–1807), French lawyer

Art and media

* The Target, a comic book character, one of the trio

Target and the Targeteers The Target and the Targeteers are fictional characters, a trio of superheroes who first appeared in 1940, in ''Target Comics'' (after which the characters were named) from Novelty Press. History ''Target Comics'' debuted with a premiere issue cov ...

Film

* ''Target'' (1952 film), a Western starring Tim Holt * ''Target'' (1979 film), a crime film starring Luc Merenda * ''Target'' (1985 film), a thriller starring Gene Hackman * ''Target'' (1995 film), a drama directed by Sandip Ray * ''Target'' (2004 film), an action film starring Stephen Baldwin * ''Target'' (2010 film), a Bengali-language Indian film * ''Target'' (2011 film), a Russian drama directed by Alexander Zeldovich * ''Target'' (2014 film), an action suspense crime film directed by Yang Jiang * ''The Target'' (film), a 2014 action film starring Ryu Seung-ryong

Games and sport

* ''Target'' (video game), a microcomputer game *

Target (word puzzle) A word polygon is a word puzzle where the solver is presented with a grid or shape with 5 to 9 letters. The goal is to create as many words as possible using each letter no more than once. There are many variations of the rules, e.g., the minimum w ...

Target Center Target Center is a multi-purpose arena located in Minneapolis that opened in 1990. It hosts major family shows, concerts, sporting events, graduations and private events. Target Corporation, founded and headquartered in Minneapolis since 1902, ...

, an indoor sports arena *

Target Field Target Field is a baseball stadium in the historic warehouse district of downtown Minneapolis. Since its opening in 2010, the stadium has been the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Minnesota Twins. The stadium hosted the 2014 Major Leag ...

, a baseball park

Music

Target (band) Target (Hangul: 타겟) is a South Korean boy band formed by JSL Company in Seoul, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and ...

, South Korean band *

Target (American band) Target was a Southern rock band from Memphis, Tennessee, who formed in the early 1970s. The band consisted of singer Jimi Jamison, guitarists Buddy Davis and Paul Cannon, Tommy Cathey on bass, and drummer David Spain. The group released a pair of ...

, American band from the 1970s * "Target" (Embrace song), 2006 * "Target" (T-ara song), 2013 * ''The Target'' (EP), a 2002 EP by Hoobastank * ''Target'' (album), an album by Gerald Walker

Publications

* ''Target'' (journal), an academic journal of translation studies * ''Target'' (magazine), an Indian children's magazine * '' Target: 2006'', a ''Transformers'' comic book story arc * ''The Target'' (novel), a 2014 novel by David Baldacci * ''Target'', the magazine of the

British Productivity Council The British Productivity Council (BPC) was a body that aimed to increase Britain's industrial efficiency. It was formed in 1953 and superseded the Anglo-American Council on Productivity (AACP), which was formed in 1948 and dissolved in 1952. Until 1 ...

Television

Series

* ''Target'' (American TV series), a short-lived American 1958 syndicated anthology television series * ''Target'' (New Zealand TV series), a consumer affairs program * ''Target'' (British TV series), a 1970s British police drama

Episodes

* "The Target" (''The Office'') * "The Target" (''The Wire'') * "The Target", the second episode of the first season of ''Dollhouse''

Brands, enterprises, and organizations

Aeros Target The Aeros Target is a family of Ukrainian high-wing, single and two-place hang gliders, designed and produced by Aeros of Kyiv and introduced in 1995. The two-place Target 21 Tandem remains in production in 2012.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et ...

, hang glider *

Target Apparel Target Canada Co. was the Canadian subsidiary of the Target Corporation, the eighth-largest retailer in the United States. Formerly headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the subsidiary was formed with the acquisition of Zellers store leases fr ...

, a former Canadian clothing brand unrelated to any of the below *

Target Australia Target Australia Pty Ltd (formerly Lindsay's and Lindsay's Target, formerly stylised as Target. and doing business as Target and Target Australia) is a department store chain owned by Australian retail conglomerate Wesfarmers. Target stocks c ...

, an Australian retail chain similar to, but not associated with, Target Corporation *

Target Books Target Books was a British publishing imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company. The imprint was established as a children's imprint to complement the adult Tandem imprint, and became well ...

, a publishing imprint *

Target Corporation Target Corporation (doing business as Target and stylized in all lowercase since 2018) is an American big box department store chain headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the seventh largest retailer in the United States, and a compon ...

, an American retail chain **

Target Canada Target Canada Co. was the Canadian subsidiary of the Target Corporation, the eighth-largest retailer in the United States. Formerly headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the subsidiary was formed with the acquisition of Zellers store leases fr ...

, its defunct Canadian subsidiary * TARGET (NGO), a human rights organization founded by

Rüdiger Nehberg Rüdiger Nehberg, also known as 'Sir Vival', (4 May 1935 – 1 April 2020) was a German human rights activist, author and survival expert. He was the founder and chairman of the anti-FGM organization TARGET, and chairman of the organizations Fri ...

Target Video Target Video (aka TargetVideo77) is a San Francisco-based studio, founded by artist Joe Rees, who collaborating with Jackie Sharp, Jill Hoffman, Sam Edwards and others, archived early art performance, punk and hardcore bands on video and film. Per ...

, a San Francisco-based video and film studio *

TechTarget TechTarget is an American company which offers data-driven marketing services to business-to-business technology vendors. It uses purchase intent data gleaned from the readership of its 140 + technology focused web sites to help tech vendors reac ...

, an American company

Computing and technology

* A

debugger A debugger or debugging tool is a computer program used to software testing, test and debugging, debug other programs (the "target" program). The main use of a debugger is to run the target program under controlled conditions that permit the pr ...

term referring to the subject of testing or debugging *

TARGET2 TARGET2 (Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System) is the real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system for the Eurozone, and is available to non-Eurozone countries. It was developed by and is owned by the Eurosystem ...

, a Eurozone interbank payment system which succeeded TARGET *

TARGET 3001! TARGET 3001! is a CAD computer program for EDA and PCB design, developed by Ing.-Büro Friedrich in Germany. It supports the design of electronic schematics, PCBs, and device front panels. It runs under Windows and is available in English, German ...

, a computer-aided design (CAD) program * The file that a

symbolic link In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a file whose purpose is to point to a file or directory (called the "target") by specifying a path thereto. Symbolic links are supported by POSIX and by most Unix-like operating system ...

refers to *

Target (project) Target is the name of a collaborative research project specialising in big data processing and management in northern Netherlands. It is a public-private cooperation, initiated in 2009 and supported by government subsidies. It is run by a consortiu ...

, a collaborative research project in the Netherlands