Patch
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Patch may refer to:
Places
- Patch, California, a community in Kern County
- Patch, St. Louis, a neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri
- Patch, Gwbert, South Ceredigion, Wales
People
- Patch Adams, a.k.a. Hunter Adams (born 1945), founder of the Gesundheit! Institute
- Alexander Patch (1889–1945), general of US Army in World War II
- Harry Patch (1898–2009), British veteran of World War I
- Horace Patch, American politician
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
- Patch, character from The Tribe
- Patch Johnson, from soap opera Days of our Lives
Music
Songs
- "Patches" (Chairmen of the Board song), a 1970 hit song co-written by General Johnson and recorded by Clarence Carter
- "Patches", a 1962 ballad sung by Dickey Lee
Synthesizers
- Patch (synthesizer), a sound setting for musical synthesizers
- Swede Patch 2000, a guitar/synthesizer hybrid made by Hagström
Computing
- 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
- 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
Enterprises and organizations
- PATCH (Pembrokeshire Action To Combat Hardship), a Pembrokeshire-based charity
- Patch Media Corporation, an operator of online news service Patch.com
Geography and landscape
- Patch, a small garden where fruit or vegetables are grown (e.g., garden patch or pumpkin patch)
- 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
- Patch butterflies, certain brush-footed butterflies in the genus Chlosyne
- Patch (dermatology), a large discolored section of skin
- Dermal patch, an adhesive patch to administer medication to the skin
- Transdermal patch, an adhesive patch to administer medication into the bloodstream via the skin
- Contraceptive patch, a transdermal patch that releases contraceptive
- Nicotine patch, a transdermal patch that releases nicotine into the body
Textiles
- 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
- IR flag, or IR patch, for military combat identification
- Shoulder patch, or Shoulder Sleeve Insignia (United States Army)
Other uses
- 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