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People and fictional characters

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Fletcher (surname) Fletcher is an Anglo-Norman surname of French, English, Scottish and Irish origin. The name is a regional ( La Flèche) and an occupational name for an arrowsmith (a maker and or seller of arrows), derived from the Old French ''flecher'' (in ...
, including lists of people and fictional characters * Fletcher (given name), lists of people and fictional characters *
Fletcher (occupation) Fletching is the fin-shaped aerodynamic stabilization device attached on arrows, crossbow bolts, darts, and javelins, typically made from light semi-flexible materials such as feathers or bark. Each piece of such a device is a fletch, also kno ...
, a person who fletches arrows, the origin of the surname * Fletcher (singer), American singer-songwriter Cari Fletcher (born 1994)


Places


United States

* Fletcher, California, a former settlement * Fletcher, the original name of
Aurora, Colorado Aurora (, ) is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Home rule municipality, home rule city located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, Arapahoe, Adams County, Colorado, Adams, and Douglas County, Colorado, Douglas List of counties in Colorado, counti ...
, a home rule municipality * Fletcher, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Fletcher, Indiana, an unincorporated town * Fletcher, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Fletcher, North Carolina, a suburb of Asheville * Fletcher, Ohio, a village * Fletcher, Oklahoma, a town * Fletcher, Vermont, a town * Fletcher, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Fletcher, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Fletcher Hills, San Diego County, California, a mountain range * Fletcher Pond, Michigan, a man-made body of water * Fletcher Peak, Yosemite National Park, California


Antarctica

* Fletcher Islands, George V Land ** Fletcher Island, largest of the Fletcher Islands * Fletcher Peninsula, Ellsworth Land * Fletcher Ice Rise


Elsewhere

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Fletcher, New South Wales Fletcher is an outer western suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian conti ...
, Australia, a suburb of Newcastle * Fletcher, Ontario, Canada, a farming community * Fletcher Island (Nunavut), Canada * Fletcher's Canal, Greater Manchester, England * 3265 Fletcher, an asteroid


Aviation

* Fletcher Aviation, a US aircraft manufacturer * PAC Fletcher, a New Zealand agricultural aircraft *
Fletcher Field Fletcher Field is a public use airport in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States. It is owned by the Coahoma County Airport Board and located seven  nautical miles (13 km) northeast of the central business district of Clarksdale ...
, a public-use airport in Coahoma County, Mississippi


Ships

* ''Fletcher'' class, a type of US Navy destroyer * USS ''Fletcher'' (DD-445), lead ship of the ''Fletcher'' class, served during World War II * USS ''Fletcher'' (DD-992), a destroyer


Education

* The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a graduate school of Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts * Duncan U. Fletcher High School, Neptune Beach, Florida, United States * Fletcher High School, Gweru, Zimbabwe * Fletcher Hall (Gainesville, Florida), a dormitory building on the campus of the University of Florida


Other uses

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Fletcher Construction The Fletcher Construction Company Limited is a New Zealand construction company and a subsidiary of Fletcher Building. Together with Higgins Contractors Ltd and Brian Perry Civil it makes up the Construction division of Fletcher Building. Fletc ...
, a major New Zealand construction company * Fletcher baronets, four titles, one of which is still extant * Fletcher Collection, a collection of British postage stamps in the British Library *
Fletcher (typeface) Fletcher is the name given to a revival of a nineteenth-century blackletter Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, was a script used throughout Western Europe from ap ...
, a geometrically constructed blackletter typeface * Needlegun or fletcher, a firearm that fires flechettes


See also

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Fletcher's checksum The Fletcher checksum is an algorithm for computing a position-dependent checksum devised by John G. Fletcher (1934–2012) at Lawrence Livermore Labs in the late 1970s. The objective of the Fletcher checksum was to provide error-detection prope ...
, a checksum used to provide error-detection in computing {{disambiguation, geo, schools