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

Science and technology

Chevron (aerospace) A turbofan or fanjet is a type of airbreathing jet engine that is widely used in aircraft engine, aircraft propulsion. The word "turbofan" is a combination of references to the preceding generation engine technology of the turbojet and the add ...

, sawtooth patterns on some jet engines *

Chevron (anatomy) A haemal arch, also known as a chevron, is a bony arch on the ventral side of a tail vertebra of a vertebrate Vertebrates () are animals with a vertebral column (backbone or spine), and a cranium, or skull. The vertebral column surrounds and p ...

, a bone * '' Eulithis testata'', a moth *

Chevron (geology) Chevron folds are a structural feature characterized by repeated well behaved folded beds with straight limbs and sharp hinges. Well developed, these folds develop repeated set of v-shaped beds. They develop in response to regional or local comp ...

, a fold in rock layers *

Chevron (land form) A chevron is a wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world. The term chevron was originally used independently by Maxwell and Haynes and Hearty and others for large, V-shaped, sub-linear to pa ...

, a sediment deposit across the Earth's surface * Chevron nail, a rare transient fingernail ridge pattern seen in children *

Chevron plot A chevron plot is a way of representing protein folding chemical kinetics, kinetic data in the presence of varying concentrations of Denaturation (biochemistry), denaturant that disrupts the protein's native tertiary structure. The plot is known ...

, a way of representing data

Organisations

* '' The Chevron'', former newspaper at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada *

Chevron Corporation Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas. The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened t ...

, 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 Chevron Cars Ltd. is an English manufacturer of racing cars, founded by Derek Bennett in 1965. Following Bennett's death in 1978, the firm has remained active in various guises. The original company's designs and name continue to be used to ...

, a British racing car constructor * Chevron Engineering Ltd, a New Zealand car maker

People

Philip Chevron Philip Ryan (17 June 1957 – 8 October 2013), professionally known as Philip Chevron, was an Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist and record producer. He was best known as the lead guitarist for the celtic punk band the Pogues and as the fro ...

(1957–2013), Irish singer/songwriter *

The Chevrons The Chevrons were a United States pop group who recorded the hit record "Lullabye" in 1960. The band featured lead singer Terry Cashman, best known for his baseball songs, notably "Talkin' Baseball", then known by his born name, Dennis Minogue. ...

, an American pop group

Places

* Chevron, Kansas, an unincorporated community, United States *

Chevron Island Chevron Island is an urban island that lies in the Nerang River and is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Surfers Paradise onn the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. History Chevron Island is a natural island previously known as Goat Islan ...

, a neighbourhood in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia * Château de Chevron, in France *

Chevron Mountain Chevron Mountain is a summit in Alberta, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into t ...

* Chevron Reef, artificial reef constructed in 2000 in Santa Monica Bay *

Chevron Rocks Separation Range () is the northeastern branch of the Commonwealth Range in the Queen Maud Mountains, Antarctica. The branch starts at about 84°20'S, and forms two chains of mountains separated by Hood Glacier. The Separation Range, about long, ...

* Chevron Science Center, academic building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *

Estadio Chevron The Tijuana National Stadium (Spanish: Estadio Nacional de Tijuana), known as Chevron Stadium (Spanish: Estadio Chevron) for commercial reasons, is a ballpark in Tijuana Tijuana is the most populous city of the Mexican state of Baja Califor ...

, a professional baseball stadium located in Tijuana, Baja California, in Mexico *

Hebron Hebron (; , or ; , ) is a Palestinian city in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Hebron is capital of the Hebron Governorate, the largest Governorates of Palestine, governorate in the West Bank. With a population of 201,063 in ...

, a city in Palestine

Symbols

Chevron (insignia) A chevron (also spelled cheveron, especially in older documents) is a V-shaped mark or symbol, often inverted. The word is usually used in reference to a kind of fret in architecture, or to a badge or insignia used in military or police unifo ...

, an indicator of military rank or heraldic symbol *

Guillemet Guillemets (, also , , ) are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons, and , used as quotation marks in some languages. In some of these languages, "single" guillemets, and , are used for a quotation inside another ...

, a type of quotation mark that looks like a pair of small chevrons *

Angle brackets A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their n ...

, another pair of punctuation marks sometimes called chevrons *

Trill (music) The trill (or shake, as it was known from the 16th until the early 20th century) is a musical ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes, usually a semitone or tone apart, which can be identified with the context of ...

, a wavy line indicating a trill * Chevron, a symbol used in reticles in firearm scopes like the ACOG *

Chevron (flag) Flag terminology is the nomenclature, or system of terms, used in vexillology, the study of flags, to describe precisely the parts, patterns, and other attributes of flags and their display. Flag types ...

, a flag pattern *

Circumflex The circumflex () is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is also used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from "bent around"a translation of ...

, a chevron-shaped diacritical mark * Caron/haček, a diacritical mark known as "inverted chevron"

Other uses

* Chevron, a type of

moustache A moustache (; mustache, ) is a growth of facial hair grown above the upper lip and under the human nose, nose. Moustaches have been worn in various styles throughout history. Etymology The word "moustache" is French language, French, and i ...

* Chevron, part of a

stargate ''Stargate'' is a military science fiction media franchise owned by Amazon MGM Studios. It is based on Stargate (film), the film directed by Roland Emmerich, which he co-wrote with producer Dean Devlin; production company StudioCanal owns the ...