Gate (disambiguation)
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A gate is an opening in a wall or fence fitted with a moveable barrier allowing it to be closed.
Gate or GATE may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Gate (album), a 1995 album by Peter Frohmader
- The Gate, a 1987 horror film
- Gate (film), a 2018 South Korean film
- Gate (novel series), a 2006/2010 novel series by Takumi Yanai, with comic (manga, 2011) and television (anime, 2015) adaptations
- Gate (solitaire), a card game
- GATE (video game), a 1991 action-adventure video game
- Gåte, a Norwegian band
- Gåte (2002 EP), by the eponymous band
- Grammy, Academy, Tony, and Emmy Awards, or "GATE Awards", see List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards
Engineering
[edit]Electronics
[edit]- Gate (transistor), terminal of a field effect transistor
- Logic gate, a functional building block in digital logic such as "and", "or", or "not"
- Metal gate, the gate material in a MOSFET transistor
- Noise gate, a high-quality audio squelch control for reducing noise
- Range gate, the area encompassed by one pixel of radar data
Equipment
[edit]- Gate, a rowing term for the hinged bar that prevents the oar from coming out
- Gate, a sprue molding channel which carries molten metal into a mold
- Gate, a sprung safety latch on a lifting hook or carabiner
Hydraulics
[edit]- Gate (hydraulic engineering), a movable structure used to control the flow of fluid in a pipe or channel
- Gate (water transport), the watertight door that seals off a chamber of a lock
- Floodgate, an adjustable gate used to control water flow in flood barriers, lake, river, stream, or levee systems
- Gate valve, a valve that opens by lifting a wedge out of the path of the fluid
Sport
[edit]- The pairs of poles through which slalom skiers aim to pass.
Enterprises and organizations
[edit]- GATE (organization), an organization working on gender identity and sex characteristics issues
- Gate Studios, a British film studio in operation from 1928 to the early 1950s
- Gate Theatre, in Dublin
- Gay Alliance Toward Equality, or "GATE", one of the first Canadian gay liberation groups
- Gate Petroleum, a Jacksonville-based petroleum company
- Grupo de Ações Táticas Especiais (Portuguese for "Special Tactical Actions Group"), a Brazilian police special forces squad
Places
[edit]Famous gates
[edit]- Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls
- Gates of Delhi, India
- Brandenburg Gate, 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin
- Cilician Gates or Gülek Pass, a pass through the Taurus Mountains connecting the low plains of Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau, Turkey
- Gate of Kuwait, a supertall skyscraper under construction in Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Golden Gate, a strait on the west coast of North America that connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean
- India Gate, the All India War Memorial, a memorial located on the Rajpath, the eastern edge of the "ceremonial axis" of New Delhi, India
- Ishtar Gate, the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon
- Lion Gate, the main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae, southern Greece
- Menin Gate, a war memorial dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres, Belgium during World War I
- Victoria Gate (Valletta), a city gate in Valletta, Malta
Scandals and conspiracy theories
[edit]- "-gate", common suffix for a public scandal (see List of "-gate" scandals and controversies) and for conspiracy theories, such as:
- Watergate scandal, a United States scandal that lasted from 1972 to 1974, which led to the use of the suffix "-gate" for other scandals
- Gategate, a scandal in the United Kingdom involving the Government Chief Whip, the police, and a gate
- Pizzagate conspiracy theory, a debunked conspiracy theory that went viral during the 2016 United States presidential election cycle
- Russiagate, a popular name for a scandal involving Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
- Telegramgate, a 2019 scandal involving Puerto Rico's governor Ricardo Rossello
- Partygate, a United Kingdom scandal that lasted from 2021 to 2022, involving parties held in 10 Downing Street during COVID-19 restrictions
- Pfizergate, a European Union scandal involving the lack of transparency in the communication and negotiation processes for purchasing a significant number of vaccine doses during the COVID-19 pandemic
Science and technology
[edit]- Gate (cytometry), a set of limits for data from a cytometer
- Film gate, the opening in the front of a motion picture camera
- Gallium(II) telluride, a chemical compound with the formula GaTe
- General Architecture for Text Engineering, or "GATE", a human language processing system
- Quantum gate, a basic quantum mechanics operation that has properties of a classical logic gate
Other uses
[edit]- Gate (airport), a specified location for boarding or leaving an aircraft in an airport
- Gate (surname), people and characters with the surname
- Gate receipts (or "event gate"), the sum of ticket revenue for a particular event at a sporting venue
- Gifted education, also known as Gifted and Talented Education, or "GATE"
- Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, or "GATE", an entrance examination for admission to postgraduate courses in India
See also
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