Bridge (disambiguation)

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A bridge is a structure built so that a transportation route can cross above an obstacle.

Bridge can also refer to:

Places

• Bridge (ward), a ward in London
• Bridge, California, United States, a former town in Fresno County
• Bridge, Kent, in Kent, England
• Bridge of Allan, a number of places in Scotland
• Bridge River, a river in British Columbia, Canada
• Bridge River Cones, a group of volcanoes in British Columbia, Canada

People

• Bridge (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Electronics, engineering, and technology

• Bridge, in clock- and watchmaking, a component in an ébauche
• Adobe Bridge, digital asset management software
• Bridge camera, generally considered to fill the niche between single-lens reflex (SLR) and compact point-and-shoot cameras
• Bridge circuit
  • Bridge rectifier, an electronic circuit for converting alternating current to direct current
  • H-bridge, an electronic circuit which enables DC electric motors to be run forwards or backwards
  • Wheatstone bridge, an electronic circuit for comparing resistors, capacitors or inductors to high standards of accuracy
• Bridge pattern, a computer science design used to separate an abstraction and its actual implementation
• Bridging (networking), the action taken by IT network equipment to allow two or more communication networks to create an amalgamated network
• Protocol bridge, an electronics device or piece of software that translates from one communications protocol or programming API to another

Fitness and sports

• Bridge (exercise), most commonly, the balancing of the body on the head and feet
• Bridge (grappling), in wrestling, a move intended to dislodge an opponent in top control
• Mechanical bridge, a piece of cue sports equipment

Healthcare

• Bridge (dentistry), a fixed prosthesis used to replace missing teeth
• Myocardial bridge, a heart defect

Mathematics

• Bridge (graph theory), an edge whose removal disconnects a graph
• Brownian bridge, in probability theory, the conditional distribution of a process pinned both at the origin and at the end point

Science

• Bridge (chemical), an unbranched chain of atoms or an atom or a covalent bond connecting two bridgeheads in a polycyclic compound
  • Salt bridge (protein) (or salt bond), in protein chemistry, is the term used to denote chemical bonds between positively and negatively charged side-chains of proteins
  • Salt bridge, in chemistry, a laboratory device used to connect the oxidation and reduction half-cells of a galvanic cell (electrochemical cell)
• British Mid-Ocean Ridge Initiative

Transportation

• Bridge (nautical), the area of a ship from which it is commanded
• Bridge class stores ship, a class of ship
• Bridge-class OBO carrier, a class of ship
• SS Empire Bridge or SS Bridge, an Empire ship
• USS Bridge, several ships of the name

Other uses

• Natural bridge, a rock formation where an arch has formed with an opening underneath
• Bridge (interpersonal), in social networks, a relationship that acts as a communication channel between different groups
• Bridge loan, a short-term loan to cover a gap in time until a new long-term financing is realised
• Bridge program (higher education), a higher education program
• Suicide bridge, a bridge used frequently to die by suicide

See also

• Bridge the gap (disambiguation)
• Bridge to Nowhere (disambiguation)
• Bridges (disambiguation)
• Stamford Bridge (disambiguation)
• The Bridge (disambiguation)