Bow tie (disambiguation)

A bow tie is a fashion accessory, popularly worn with other formal attire

Bow tie, Bowtie, or Bow-tie may also refer to:

Places

 * Bow Tie Nebula, another name for the Boomerang Nebula in the constellation Centaurus
 * Bow-Tie Nebula, another name for NGC 40 (C2) in the constellation Cepheus

People

 * Donald Tsang, nicknamed "Bow-tie Tsang", the second Chief Executive in Hong Kong SAR, China

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Bow Tie killer, a character in the Problem Child (1990 film)
 * Bow ties are cool, a reference to The Eleventh Doctor in the Doctor Who series
 * "Bowtie", a song by OutKast from their 2003 album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Brands and enterprises

 * Bow Tie Cinemas
 * Bow-tie, a brand name of polarization-maintaining optical fiber
 * BowTie Inc., a magazine and book publisher

Mathematics

 * Bow tie angle, an angle in geometry
 * Bowtie stub, a radial stub
 * Bowtie-quadrilateral, a geometric structure
 * ⋈, the symbol used for the natural join operator of relational algebra

Science and technology

 * Bow tie (biology), a common organizational architecture in biological and other self-organizing systems
 * Bowtie (sequence analysis), ultrafast, memory-efficient short aligner for short DNA sequences
 * Bowtie, a type of architecture in load balancing (computing)
 * Bowtie array, a reflective array antenna
 * Bowtie cotter pin, a formed wire fastener that resembles an R-clip, except it positively locks when installed
 * Bowtie turtle, a Philippine forest turtle

Other uses

 * Bowtie (road), a type of road junction
 * Bow-tie diagrams, used in risk management and network theory
 * Bowtie inversion, one of many types of roller coaster inversions
 * Bowtie pasta, another name for farfalle