Bridge (disambiguation)

A bridge is a structure built so that a transportation route can cross above an obstacle.

Bridge can also refer to:

Places

• Bridge, Kent, in Kent, England
• Bridge, California, a former town in Fresno County
• 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

Card games

• Bridge whist, the original game
• Auction bridge, the form of the card game popular from its derivation from whist and bridge whist in about 1903 until superseded by contract bridge beginning in 1926
• Contract bridge, the modern and most common form of bridge; derived from auction bridge primarily by means of changes to the scoring system
• Rubber bridge, a form of contract bridge with a specific scoring methodology in which the objective is to be the first partnership to win two games—a rubber
• Chicago (bridge card game) where part-scores don't count for the game
• Duplicate bridge, a form of bridge in which the same set of hands are played by all competitors and the scoring is based upon their relative performance
• Singaporean bridge, a re-invention of the game with very different rules

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 string instrument, such as a violin or guitar
  • 3rd bridge, an additional bridge added to a string instrument to produce overtones and a distinct timbre
• Bridge (Blues Traveler album)
• Bridge (Speed album)
• Bridge (Joey Cape album), Cape's first solo album, released in 2008
• Bridge Records, Inc., a record label

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
• Salt bridge, in chemistry, a laboratory device used to connect the oxidation and reduction half-cells of a galvanic cell (electrochemical cell)
• Myocardial bridge, a heart defect

Engineering and technology

• Adobe Bridge, a program included with the Adobe Creative Suite to link the other programs together
• Bridge pattern, a computer science design used to separate an abstraction and its actual implementation
• Bridge camera, generally considered to fill the niche between single-lens reflex (SLR) and compact point-and-shoot cameras
• Bridge, in clock- and watchmaking, a component in an ébauche
• Bridge (dentistry), a fixed prosthesis used to replace missing teeth

Electronics

• Bridge circuit
  • Bridge rectifier, an electronic circuit for converting alternating current to direct current
  • Wheatstone bridge, an electronic circuit for comparing resistors, capacitors or inductors to high standards of accuracy
  • H-bridge, an electronic circuit which enables DC electric motors to be run forwards or backwards
• Network bridge, an electronic device used to connect two computer or telephone network segments
• Protocol bridge, an electronics device or piece of software that translates from one communications protocol or programming API to another

People

• Bridge Carson, fictional character
• Chris Bridge, English rugby league footballer
• Frank Bridge, English composer
• Wayne Bridge (born 1980), English footballer

Film

• Bridge (1949 film), a 1949 Chinese film, generally considered the first film produced in the Peoples Republic of China
• Bridge (1988 film), a 1988 USA-USSR film

Other uses

• Bridge (dentistry) is a dental restoration used to replace a missing tooth by joining permanently to adjacent 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 (nautical), the area of a ship from which it is commanded
• Bridge (prosody), a point in a line of poetry where a break in a word-unit cannot occur
• 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)
• The Bridge (disambiguation)
• Stamford Bridge (disambiguation)