Herringbone may refer to:
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Herring-Bone (card game)
Herringbone may refer to:
* Herring-Bone (card game), a game of patience
*Herringbone (cloth), a woven pattern of tweed or twill cloth
* Herringbone (formation), a type of military formation
* Herringbone (horse) (1940–1961), a Thoroughbred race ...
, a game of patience
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Herringbone (cloth)
Herringbone, also called broken twill weave, describes a distinctive V-shaped weaving pattern usually found in twill fabric. It is distinguished from a plain chevron by the break at reversal, which makes it resemble a broken zigzag. The pattern ...
, a woven pattern of tweed or twill cloth
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Herringbone (formation)
A Herringbone is one type of tactical formation (named after the Herringbone pattern). When in a Herringbone formation, the person at the front of the squad faces forward, while the rest of the squad lines up behind them, facing left and right, a ...
, a type of military formation
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Herringbone (horse) (1940–1961), a Thoroughbred racehorse
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Herringbone cross-stratification
Herringbone cross-stratification is a type of sedimentary structure formed in tidal areas, such as tidal flats, where the current periodically flows in the opposite direction.
Formation
During the conventional formation process of cross-stratifica ...
, a sedimentary structure in geology that is formed from back-and-forth tidal water flow
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Herringbone gear
A herringbone gear, a specific type of double helical gear, is a special type of gear that is a side-to-side (not face-to-face) combination of two Gear#Helical, helical gears of opposite Helix#Handedness, hands. From the top, each helical Groove ...
, a type of gear
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Herringbone pattern
The herringbone pattern is an arrangement of rectangles used for floor tilings and road pavement, so named for a fancied resemblance to the bones of a fish such as a herring.
The blocks can be rectangles or parallelograms. The block edge length ...
, a pattern of floor tiling or paving
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Herringbone seating
A herringbone seating arrangement describes the positioning of seats partially and equally askew in one direction. As the name suggests, the arrangement of the seats looks very similar to the skeleton of a fish, and has been called "fish-bone seat ...
, a pattern of airliner seating
*A bonding pattern of brickwork, also known as
opus spicatum
''Opus spicatum'', literally "spiked work," is a type of masonry construction used in Roman and medieval times. It consists of bricks, tiles or cut stone laid in a herringbone pattern.
Uses
Its usage was generally decorative and most commonly i ...
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Herringbone stitch
A herringbone stitch is a needlework stitch used in embroidery, knitting and crochet. It is so named as it resembles the bones extending from the spine of a herring fish. In knitting, it is a stitch that creates a fabric pattern closely resembling ...
*A type of braided hairstyle, which is also known as a
fishtail braid
*A distortion pattern from deinterlacing video called
mouse teeth
Deinterlacing is the process of converting interlaced video into a non-interlaced or progressive form. Interlaced video signals are commonly found in analog television, digital television (HDTV) when in the 1080i format, some DVD titles, and a ...
*A method of counting used with the
unary numeral system
The unary numeral system is the simplest numeral system to represent natural numbers: to represent a number ''N'', a symbol representing 1 is repeated ''N'' times.
In the unary system, the number 0 (zero) is represented by the empty string, that ...
*A technique of moving one's skis while
cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...
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Herringbone milking shed
*Herringbone, another name for the medical condition
scintillating scotoma
Scintillating scotoma is a common visual aura that was first described by 19th-century physician Hubert Airy (1838–1903). Originating from the brain, it may precede a migraine headache, but can also occur acephalgically (without headache), al ...
*"Herringbone", a song by Department of Eagles from ''
In Ear Park
''In Ear Park'' is the second album by Department of Eagles. It was released by 4AD on October 7, 2008. The inspiration for the album is noted to come from Daniel Rossen's childhood experiences, most notably memories of those related to his fath ...
'', 2008
See also
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Herring
Herring are forage fish, mostly belonging to the family of Clupeidae.
Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans, i ...
, the fish whose bones are the namesake of the "herringbone" pattern
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