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

Science and technology

Chevron (aerospace) A turbofan or fanjet is a type of airbreathing jet engine that is widely used in aircraft engine, aircraft propulsion. The word "turbofan" is a combination of references to the preceding generation engine technology of the turbojet and the add ...

, 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 chevron is a wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world. The term chevron was originally used independently by Maxwell and Haynes and Hearty and others for large, V-shaped, sub-linear to pa ...

, a sediment deposit across the Earth's surface * Chevron nail, a rare transient fingernail ridge pattern seen in children *

Chevron plot A chevron plot is a way of representing protein folding chemical kinetics, kinetic data in the presence of varying concentrations of Denaturation (biochemistry), denaturant that disrupts the protein's native tertiary structure. The plot is known ...

, 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 Chevron Cars Ltd. is an English manufacturer of racing cars, founded by Derek Bennett in 1965. Following Bennett's death in 1978, the firm has remained active in various guises. The original company's designs and name continue to be used to ...

, a British racing car constructor * Chevron Engineering Ltd, a New Zealand car maker

People

Philip Chevron Philip Ryan (17 June 1957 – 8 October 2013), professionally known as Philip Chevron, was an Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist and record producer. He was best known as the lead guitarist for the celtic punk band the Pogues and as the fro ...

(1957–2013), Irish singer/songwriter *

The Chevrons The Chevrons were a United States pop group who recorded the hit record "Lullabye" in 1960. The band featured lead singer Terry Cashman, best known for his baseball songs, notably "Talkin' Baseball", then known by his born name, Dennis Minogue. ...

, an American pop group

Places

Chevron, Kansas Chevron is an unincorporated community in Scott County, Kansas Scott County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat is Scott City, the only incorporated city in the county. As of the 2020 census, the county popu ...

, an unincorporated community, United States *

Chevron Island Chevron Island is an urban island that lies in the Nerang River and is a neighbourhood within the suburb of Surfers Paradise onn the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. History Chevron Island is a natural island previously known as Goat Islan ...

, a neighbourhood in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia * Château de Chevron, in France *

Chevron Mountain Chevron Mountain is a summit in Alberta, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into t ...

* Chevron Reef, artificial reef constructed in 2000 in Santa Monica Bay *

Chevron Rocks Separation Range () is the northeastern branch of the Commonwealth Range in the Queen Maud Mountains, Antarctica. The branch starts at about 84°20'S, and forms two chains of mountains separated by Hood Glacier. The Separation Range, about long, ...

Chevron Science Center Chevron Science Center is a landmark academic building at 219 Parkman Avenue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. The 15-story facility, completed in 1974, was designed by Kuhn, Newcomer & ...

, academic building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *

Estadio Chevron The Tijuana National Stadium (Spanish: Estadio Nacional de Tijuana), known as Chevron Stadium (Spanish: Estadio Chevron) for commercial reasons, is a ballpark in Tijuana Tijuana is the most populous city of the Mexican state of Baja Califor ...

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

, 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 Advanced_Combat_Optical_Gunsight, ACOG * Chevron (flag), a flag pattern * Circumflex, a chevron-shaped diacritical mark * Caron, Caron/haček, a diacritical mark known as "inverted chevron"

Other uses