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Patch may refer to:
Places[edit]
- Patch, St. Louis, a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri
- Patch, Gwbert, South Ceredigion, Wales
People[edit]
- Patch Adams, a.k.a. Hunter Adams (born 1945), founder of the Gesundheit! Institute
- Alexander Patch (1889–1945), US Army general in World War II
- Harry Patch (1898–2009), British veteran of World War I
- Horace Patch (1814–1862), American politician
Arts and entertainment[edit]
Fictional characters[edit]
- Patch Johnson, from soap opera Days of our Lives
Songs[edit]
- "Patches" (Dickey Lee song), a 1962 hit by Dickey Lee
- "Patches" (Chairmen of the Board song), a 1970 hit song, covered by Clarence Carter
Computing[edit]
- Patch (computing), a piece of software designed to fix or improve a computer program or its supporting data
- patch (Unix), a UNIX utility that updates text files according to instructions contained in a separate file, called "patch file"
- Patch, a 3-D Bézier curve used in computer graphics, or a primitive in some 3-D software packages
Electronics[edit]
- Autopatch or phone patch, used in amateur radio to access an outgoing connection
- Patch antenna, a rectangular Microstrip Antenna is a radio antenna constructed from a single metal patch suspended over a ground plane
- Patch cable, an electrical or optical cable used to connect devices for signal routing
- Patch panel, a device featuring a number of jacks for the use of connecting and routing circuits
- Patch (synthesizer), a sound setting for musical synthesizers
- Swede Patch 2000, a guitar/synthesizer hybrid made by Hagström
Enterprises and organizations[edit]
- PATCH (Pembrokeshire Action To Combat Hardship), a Pembrokeshire-based charity
- Patch (website), an online news service
Geography and landscape[edit]
- Coal patch, a town created for a coal mine and owned by the company
- Patch and mosaic, in landscape ecology, a relatively homogeneous area that differs from its surroundings
Science and medicine[edit]
- Patch butterflies, certain brush-footed butterflies in the genus Chlosyne
- Patch (dermatology), a large discolored section of skin
- Transdermal patch, a medication form and route
Textiles[edit]
- Embroidered patch, an embroidered design applied to clothing by organizations or individuals
- Eyepatch, to cover an eye
- Gang patch, the identifying insignia used by street gangs in New Zealand
- IR flag, or IR patch, for military combat identification
- Shoulder patch, or Shoulder Sleeve Insignia (United States Army)
Other uses[edit]
- Patch (firearms), a piece of cloth used in muzzleloader guns
- Patch, the practice of compulsory figures in figure skating, as each skater is assigned their own "patch" of ice
- Contact patch, the portion of a vehicle's tire that is in actual contact with the road surface
- Oil patch, an informal term for the petroleum industry