Bridge (disambiguation)
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A bridge is a structure built so that a transportation route can cross above an obstacle.
Bridge can also refer to:
Entertainment, arts, and media
Card games
- Bridge whist or straight bridge, derived from whist
- Auction bridge, a further derivation popular in the early 20th century
- Contract bridge, the modern form of the game consisting of two main variants:
- Duplicate bridge, in which the same set of deals are played by all competitors
- Rubber bridge, the basic game, where two partnerships play until one has won two games, called a rubber
Additional variants:
- Singaporean bridge, a re-invention of the game with very different rules
- Chicago (bridge card game), which is played similarly to rubber bridge but a session is limited to four deals
Fictional characters
- Bridge Carson, a Power Rangers character
Film
- Bridge (1949 film), a 1949 Chinese film
- The Bridge (1969 film), A Yugoslav film
- Bridge (1988 film), a USA–USSR film
Music
- Bridge (music), an interlude that connects two parts of song
- Bridge (instrument), the device that anchors the strings to or holds the strings above the body of a stringed instrument
- 3rd bridge, an additional bridge added to a stringed instrument
- Bridge (Blues Traveler album)
- Bridge (Joey Cape album), 2008
- Bridge (Speed album)
- Bridge Records, Inc., a record label
- Red House Painters (Bridge), the third album by Red House Painters, often referred to as the Bridge album.
- Bridge, a Japanese-language album by Hound Dog (band)
- W281BE, a radio station licensed to Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States called 104.1 the Bridge
- "Bridge" (song), a song by Queensrÿche
Electronics, engineering and technology
- Adobe Bridge, digital asset management software
- Bridge, in clock- and watchmaking, a component in an ébauche
- Bridge circuit
- Bridge rectifier, an electronic circuit for converting alternating current to direct current
- H-bridge, an electronic circuit which enables DC electric motors to be run forwards or backwards
- Wheatstone bridge, an electronic circuit for comparing resistors, capacitors or inductors to high standards of accuracy
- Bridge camera, generally considered to fill the niche between single-lens reflex (SLR) and compact point-and-shoot cameras
- Bridge pattern, a computer science design used to separate an abstraction and its actual implementation
- Bridging (networking), the action taken by IT network equipment to allow two or more communication networks to create an amalgamated network
- Protocol bridge, an electronics device or piece of software that translates from one communications protocol or programming API to another
People
Places
- Bridge, California, United States, a former town in Fresno County
- Bridge, Kent, in Kent, England
- Bridge River, a river in British Columbia, Canada
- Bridge River Cones, a group of volcanoes in British Columbia, Canada
- Bridge of Allan, a number of places in Scotland
- Bridge (ward), a ward in London
Science and mathematics
- Bridge (chemical), an unbranched chain of atoms or an atom or a covalent bond connecting two bridgeheads in a polycyclic compound
- Salt bridge (protein) (or salt bond), in protein chemistry, is the term used to denote chemical bonds between positively and negatively charged side-chains of proteins
- Bridge (graph theory), an edge whose removal disconnects a graph
- Myocardial bridge, a heart defect
- Salt bridge, in chemistry, a laboratory device used to connect the oxidation and reduction half-cells of a galvanic cell (electrochemical cell)
- Brownian bridge, in probability theory, the conditional distribution of a process pinned both at the origin and at the end point.
- British Mid-Ocean Ridge Initiative
Transportation
- Bridge (nautical), the area of a ship from which it is commanded
- SS Empire Bridge or SS Bridge, an Empire ship
- USS Bridge, several ships of the name.
- Bridge-class OBO carrier, a class of ship
- Bridge class stores ship, a class of ship
Other uses
- Bridge (dentistry), a fixed prosthesis used to replace missing teeth
- Bridge (exercise), most commonly, the balancing of the body on the head and feet
- Bridge (grappling), in wrestling, a move intended to dislodge an opponent in top control
- Bridge (interpersonal), in social networks, a relationship that acts as a communication channel between different groups
- Bridge loan, a short-term loan to cover a gap in time until a new long-term financing is realised
- Bridge program (higher education), a higher education program
See also
- Bridge the gap (disambiguation)
- Bridge to Nowhere (disambiguation)
- Bridges (disambiguation)
- Stamford Bridge (disambiguation)
- The Bridge (disambiguation)
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