Chevron (often relating to V-shaped patterns) may refer to:
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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 mechanic ...
, sawtooth patterns on some jet engines
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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. The canal formed by the space between the arch and the vertebral body is the haemal canal. A spinous ventral process emerging from the hae ...
, a bone
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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 ...
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Chevron (geology), a fold in rock layers
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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 par ...
, a sediment deposit across the earth's surface
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Chevron nail Chevron nail (also known as a "Herringbone nail") is a rare transient fingernail ridge pattern seen in children, a ridge arising from the proximal nailfold and converging in a V-shaped pattern towards the midpoint distally.James, William; Berger, ...
, a rare transient fingernail ridge pattern seen in children
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Chevron plot, a way of representing data
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