Quartz (disambiguation)

Quartz is a common mineral

Quartz may also mean:
*Quartz (band), a heavy metal band from England
*Quartz (graphics layer), the graphics-rendering technology used in Mac OS X
*Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler (software), Open Source Software project for job scheduling in Java/JEE.
*Quartz (cryptography), the name of a public-key cryptography signature scheme
*Quartz (Stargate), the primary mineral of the Stargate in the movie and the pilot television episode "Stargate".
*Quartz clock, a descriptor applied to a type of watch or clock that relies on the mineral in its timekeeping mechanism
*Fused quartz, synthetic silica glass
*The codename for Microsoft's DirectShow