Bridge (disambiguation)
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A bridge is a structure built so that a transportation route can cross above an obstacle.
Bridge can also refer to:
Places
- Bridge (City of London ward), a ward in the City of London, England
- Bridge (Redbridge ward), a ward for Redbridge London Borough Council, Greater London, England
- Bridge, Kent, in Kent, England
- Bridge, Oregon, in Oregon, US
- Bridge Ward, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
- Bridge of Allan, a number of places in Scotland
- Bridge River, a river in British Columbia, Canada
- Bridge River Cones, a group of volcanoes in British Columbia, Canada
People
Card games
- Bridge whist or straight bridge, derived from whist
- Auction bridge, a further derivation popular in the early 20th century
- Contract bridge, the modern form of the game
- Two main variants:
- Duplicate bridge, in which the same set of deals are played by all competitors
- Rubber bridge, the basic game, where two partnerships play until one has won two games, called a rubber
- Additional variants:
Films
Literature
Music
Songs
Other music
Musical instruments
- Bridge (instrument), the device that anchors the strings to or holds the strings above the body of a stringed instrument
- 3rd bridge, an additional bridge added to a stringed instrument
- Bridge Carson, a Power Rangers character
- Bridge (studio), a Japanese animation studio
- W281BE, a radio station licensed to Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States called 104.1 the Bridge
Electronics, engineering, and technology
- Bridge, in clock- and watchmaking, a component in an ébauche
- Adobe Bridge, digital asset management software
- Bridge camera, generally considered to fill the niche between single-lens reflex (SLR) and compact point-and-shoot cameras
- Bridge circuit
- Bridge rectifier, an electronic circuit for converting alternating current to direct current
- H-bridge, an electronic circuit which enables DC electric motors to be run forwards or backwards
- Wheatstone bridge, an electronic circuit for comparing resistors, capacitors or inductors to high standards of accuracy
- Bridge pattern, a computer science design used to separate an abstraction and its actual implementation
- Bridging (networking), the action taken by IT network equipment to allow two or more communication networks to create an amalgamated network
- Northbridge (computing) and Southbridge (computing): two chips in the core logic chipset architecture on a PC motherboard
- Protocol bridge, an electronics device or piece of software that translates from one communications protocol or programming API to another
Fitness and sports
Healthcare
Mathematics
- Bridge (graph theory), an edge whose removal disconnects a graph; also other meanings
- Brownian bridge, in probability theory, the conditional distribution of a process pinned both at the origin and at the end point
Science
Maritime
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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