Chevron

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Contents 1 Companies 2 Other 3 See also

Chevron may refer to:

• The general shape of a V character, or a triangular shape pointing up or more often, down.
• The punctuation mark seen in Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages (︾), used to enclose vertically-written titles, acting as quotation mark. See Bracket.
• Chevron (insignia), a V-shaped pattern in insignia, heraldry, flag design, road signs, architecture and construction
• Chevron (land form), a wedge-shaped sediment deposit composed of material displaced from the ocean floor onto land by a tsunami.
• A form of bracket (⟨,⟩) usually printed using the less-than and greater-than sign (<,>)
• Guillemets ‹ and ›, and « and », used in many languages to signify speech

[edit] Companies

• Chevron Corporation, a petrochemical company.
• Chevron Cars Ltd, a constructor of racing cars.
• Chevron Engineering Ltd, a kit-car and race-car manufacturer in New Zealand.

[edit] Other

• Phantom Regiment: The Chevron is the symbol for the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps
• Chevron (artist), breakcore artist Jonathan Valentine from Blackpool, UK
• Chevron (anatomy), a series of bones on the underside of the tail of reptiles
• Chevron bead, a particular style of bead also known as Rosetta or star beads.
• Chevron (geology), a wedge-shaped stratum fold
• Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., a United States Supreme Court case which led to the adoption of the "Chevron doctrine" in determining the legality of agency regulations
• One way of representing the Hebrew language pronunciation for the city of Hebron
• Chevron (Stargate), a component of a Stargate in the science fiction film and series Stargate
• Chevron plot, a way of representing protein folding kinetic data
• Chevrons (book), a novel by Leonard H. Nason. Copyrighted 1926, it takes place during the Great War.
• Chevron (moth), Eulithis testata, a moth.
• Chevron-plate type: The most common plate type used in the plate heat exchangers PHE.

[edit] See also

• Chevon, goat meat

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