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

Science and technology

* Chevron (aerospace), 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 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 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, 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 *

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, 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), 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 ...