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

Science and technology

• Chevron (aerospace), sawtooth patterns on some jet engines
• 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
• 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, 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

Symbols

• Chevron (insignia), a heraldic symbol
• Guillemet, a type of quotation mark that looks like a pair of small chevrons
• Angle brackets, another pair of punctuation marks sometimes called chevrons
• Trill (music), a wavy line indicating a trill
• Chevron, a symbol used in reticles in firearm scopes like the ACOG
• Rank insignia in many armed forces
• Chevron (flag), a flag pattern
• Circumflex, a chevron-shaped diacritical mark
• Caron/haček, a diacritical mark known as "inverted chevron"

Other uses

• Chevron, a type of moustache
• Chevron, part of a stargate in the Stargate fictional universe
• "Chevron" (song), from the 2016 album Mariner
• Chevron bead, special glass beads

See also

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