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Chevron (often relating to horizontal V-shaped patterns) may refer to:
Science and technology
[edit | edit source]- Chevron (aerospace), sawtooth patterns on some jet engines
- Chevron (anatomy), a bone
- Eulithis testata, a moth
- Chevron (geology), a fold in rock layers
- Chevron (land form), a sediment deposit across the Earth's surface
- Chevron nail, a rare transient fingernail ridge pattern seen in children
- Chevron plot, a way of representing data
Organisations
[edit | edit source]- The Chevron, former newspaper at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Chevron Corporation, an American multinational energy corporation
- Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), a United States Supreme Court case dealing with administrative law
- Chevron Cars Ltd, a British racing car constructor
- Chevron Engineering Ltd, a New Zealand car maker
People
[edit | edit source]- Philip Chevron (1957–2013), Irish singer/songwriter
- The Chevrons, an American pop group
Places
[edit | edit source]- Chevron, Kansas, an unincorporated community, United States
- Chevron Island, a neighbourhood in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
- Château de Chevron, in France
- Chevron Mountain
- Chevron Reef, artificial reef constructed in 2000 in Santa Monica Bay
- Chevron Rocks
- Chevron Science Center, academic building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Estadio Chevron, a professional baseball stadium located in Tijuana, Baja California, in Mexico
- Hebron, a city in Palestine
Symbols
[edit | edit source]- Chevron (insignia), an indicator of military rank or heraldic symbol
- Trill (music), a wavy line indicating a trill
- Chevron, a symbol used in reticles in firearm scopes like the ACOG
- Chevron (flag), a flag pattern
- Circumflex, a chevron-shaped diacritical mark
- Caret, the common name for the freestanding (ASCII) circumflex
- Caron/haček, a diacritical mark known as "inverted circumflex"
Other uses
[edit | edit source]- Chevron, a type of moustache
- Chevron, part of a stargate in the Stargate fictional universe
- "Chevron" (song), from the 2016 album Mariner
- Chevron bead, special glass beads
- Chevron (sculpture), an abstract sculpture
See also
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