Pennant
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Pennant may refer to:
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- Pennon (or pennant), a narrow, tapering flag commonly flown by ships at sea:
- Pennant (commissioning), the traditional sign of a warship, flown from its masthead while the ship is in commission
- Broad pennant, flown from the masthead of a Royal Navy ship to indicate the presence of a commodore on board
- Pennant (church), flown by navies during services on board ships
- Pennant Measures, a stratigraphic division of the South Wales Coal Measures and including the Pennant Sandstone
- Pennant number, a number used to identify ships by the modern Royal Navy and other navies of Europe and the Commonwealth
Pennant may also refer to:
- Vympel, Russian for Pennant, A Spetznas unit specialised in infiltration and assassination.
- Pennant (sports), a commemorative flag displayed or flown by a league-winning team
- A reference to the pennant-shaped "No Passing Zone" prohibitory traffic sign found in the United States
- The common name for the Genus of dragonfly known as Celithemis
- Flag and pennant patterns in technical analysis of a stock market chart
[edit] Placenames
- Pennant, Ceredigion, Wales
- Pennant, Conwy, Wales
- Pennant, Powys, Wales
- Pennant, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Pennant Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
[edit] Surnames
- Jermaine Pennant, an English Football player, currently playing for Stoke City
- Thomas Pennant, a Welsh naturalist and antiquary
- Nathan Pennant, an Australian junior powerlifter
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