Chevron

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Chevron (often relating to V-shaped patterns) may refer to:

Science and technology

  • 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

  • The Chevron, former newspaper at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  • Chevron Corporation, an American multinational energy corporation
  • Chevron Cars Ltd, a British racing car constructor
  • Chevron Engineering Ltd, a New Zealand car maker

People

  • Philip Chevron (1957–2013), Irish singer/songwriter
  • The Chevrons, an American pop group

Places

  • 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

Symbols

  • Chevron (insignia), an indicator of military rank or heraldic symbol
  • Guillemet, a type of quotation mark that looks like a pair of small chevrons
  • Angle brackets, another pair of punctuation marks sometimes called chevrons
  • 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
  • Caron/haček, a diacritical mark known as "inverted chevron"

Other uses

  • 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

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Chevron
  • Category:Coats of arms with chevrons
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