Target may refer to:

Warfare and shooting

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. Etymology The term "bullseye" had been used since the Middl ...

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

Aiming point 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 fixed at a specific target. An i ...

, in field artillery, fixed at a specific target *

Targeting (warfare) Targeting is the process of selecting objects or installations to be attacked, taken, or destroyed in warfare. Targeting systematically analyzes and prioritizes targets and matches appropriate lethal and nonlethal actions to those targets to crea ...

, lists various military targets *

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 differ ...

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

Places

* Target, Allier, France * Target Lake, 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 m ...

, marketing strategy **

Target audience The target audience is the intended audience or readership of a publication, advertisement, or other message catered specifically to the previously intended audience. In marketing and advertising, the target audience is a particular group of cons ...

, 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, a codomain, counter-domain, or set of destination of a function is a 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 ...

; more generally, a

morphism In mathematics, a morphism is a concept of category theory that generalizes structure-preserving maps such as homomorphism between algebraic structures, functions from a set to another set, and continuous functions between topological spaces. Al ...

has a target * Target (cricket), the total number of runs a team needs to win

People

* Target (rapper), stage name of Croatian hip-hop artist Nenad Šimun * DJ Target, stage name of English grime DJ Darren Joseph, member of Roll Deep *

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 a ...

(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 * ''Target'' or ''

Don't Buy the Seller ''Don't Buy the Seller'' () is a 2023 South Korean crime thriller film co-written and directed by Park Hee-gon, starring Shin Hye-sun and Kim Sung-kyun. In the film, suspense unfolds in the daily life of Soo-hyun, who becomes a target of crime t ...

'', a 2023 action film starring Shin Hye-sun

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 ...

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, h ...

, an indoor sports arena *

Target Field Target Field is a baseball stadium in the North Loop, Minneapolis, historic warehouse district of downtown Minneapolis. Since its opening in 2010, the stadium has been the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Minnesota Twins. It is named for Tar ...

, a baseball park

Music

Target (American band) Target was a Southern rock band from Memphis, Tennessee, that 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 ...

, American band from the 1970s *

Target (South Korean band) Target () 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. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders Nor ...

, South Korean band debuting 2018 * ''Target'' (album), an album by Gerald Walker * ''The Target'' (EP), a 2002 EP by Hoobastank * "Target" (Embrace song), 2006 * "Target" (T-ara song), 2013 * "Target", a song by Shenseea from ''

Alpha Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter ''aleph'' , whose name comes from the West Semitic word for ' ...

'', 2022

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 * ''Target'', an Lao news magazine

Television

Series

* ''Target'' (American TV series), a short-lived American 1958 syndicated anthology television series * ''Target'' (Australian TV series), Australian magazine style television show (1974-76) * ''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, hang glider * Target Apparel, 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 ...

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

Target Books Target Books is 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 wel ...

, a publishing imprint *

Target Corporation Target Corporation is an American retail corporation that operates a chain of discount department stores and hypermarkets, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the seventh-largest retailer in the United States, and a component of th ...

, an American retail chain founded by John Geisse **

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

, 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 F ...

* Target Video, a San Francisco-based video and film studio *

TechTarget TechTarget, Inc. (doing business as Informa TechTarget) is an American company that offers data-driven marketing services to business-to-business technology vendors. TechTarget, Inc. was founded in 1999; it is headquartered in Newton, Massachuse ...

, an American company

Computing and technology

* The platform that a

cross compiler A cross compiler is a compiler capable of creating executable code for a platform other than the one on which the compiler is running. For example, a compiler that runs on a PC but generates code that runs on Android devices is a cross compile ...

is generating code for * A

debugger A debugger is a computer program used to test and debug other programs (the "target" programs). Common features of debuggers include the ability to run or halt the target program using breakpoints, step through code line by line, and display ...

term referring to the subject of testing or debugging *

TARGET Services TARGET Services (for Transeuropean Automated Real-time Gross-settlement Express Transfer) are payment services operated by the Eurosystem for the euro area and beyond on its proprietary financial market infrastructures. As of late 2024, TARGET Ser ...

, a set of Eurozone financial market infrastructures *

TARGET 3001! TARGET 3001! is a CAD computer program for EDA and PCB (printing circuit board) design, developed by Ing.-Büro (en: engineering office) Friedrich in Germany. This software application has been available since (for 32 years) and operates on M ...

, 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 syste ...

refers to * Target (project), a collaborative research project in the Netherlands