Bulge

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Bulge may refer to:

[edit] Military

  • A localized discontinuity in an extended military line
    • Battle of the Bulge, a major World War II German offensive on the Western front starting in 1944

[edit] Astronomy

  • Bulge (astronomy), a tightly packed group of stars at the center of a spiral galaxy
  • Equatorial bulge, a bulge around the equator of a planet due to rotation
  • Tidal bulge, a bulge of land or water on a planet created by the pull of another object in orbit

[edit] Other

  • Beta bulge, a localized disruption of the regular hydrogen bonding of a beta sheet
  • Bulge bracket, the world's largest and most profitable multi-national investment banks
  • Earth bulge, a term used in telecommunications
  • The Bulge, a mountain located in Coos County, New Hampshire

[edit] See also

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