Chevron

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

Nature

• Chevron (anatomy), a bone
• Eulithis testata, a moth
• Chevron (geology), a fold in rock layers
• Chevron (land form), a sediment deposit across the earth's surface

Organisations

• The Chevron, former newspaper at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Chevron Corporation, 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

• Phil Chevron (1957–2013), Irish singer/songwriter
• The Chevrons, an American pop group

Places

• Chevron, Kansas, an unincorporated community, United States
• Chevron, or Hebron, a city in the West Bank
• Chevron Island, a neighbourhood in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

Symbols

• Chevron (insignia), a heraldic symbol
• Guillemets, a type of quotation mark
• Angle brackets, another punctuation mark
• Trill (music), a wavy line indicating a trill
• A type of aiming symbol for firearms used in optics

Technology

• Chevron (aerospace), sawtooth patterns on some jet engines
• Part of a stargate in the Stargate fictional universe

Other

• Chevron, a type of moustache

See also

• All pages with a title containing Chevron
• Category:Coats of arms with chevrons