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

Science and technology

Chevron (aerospace) The turbofan or fanjet is a type of airbreathing jet engine that is widely used in aircraft propulsion. The word "turbofan" is a portmanteau of "turbine" and "fan": the ''turbo'' portion refers to a gas turbine engine which achieves mechan ...

, sawtooth patterns on some jet engines * Chevron (anatomy), a bone * ''

Eulithis testata ''Eulithis testata'', the chevron, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was Species description, first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761. It is found in both the Palearctic realm, Palearctic and the Nearctic realms. In the Palearctic ...

'', 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 Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation. The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened to Socal or CalSo), it is headquartered in Sa ...

, 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, Wallonia, a district of the municipality of Stoumont * Chevron, Kansas, an unincorporated community, United States * Chevron, or

Hebron Hebron ( ar, الخليل or ; he, חֶבְרוֹן ) is a State of Palestine, Palestinian. city in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judaean Mountains, it lies Above mean sea level, above sea level. The second-lar ...

, a city in the West Bank * 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 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 ...

, a heraldic symbol *

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

, 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. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'r ...

, 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) 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 la, circumflexus "bent around"a ...

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

Other uses

* Chevron, a type of

moustache A moustache (; en-US, mustache, ) is a strip of facial hair grown above the upper lip. Moustaches have been worn in various styles throughout history. Etymology The word "moustache" is French, and is derived from the Italian ''mustaccio' ...