Chevron

Chevron (often relating to V-shaped patterns) may refer to:

Science and technology

 * Chevron (aerospace), sawtooth patterns on some jet engines
 * Chevron (anatomy), a bone
 * Eulithis testata, a moth
 * Chevron (geology), a fold in rock layers
 * Chevron (land form), a sediment deposit across the Earth's surface
 * Chevron nail, a rare transient fingernail ridge pattern seen in children
 * Chevron plot, a way of representing data

Organisations

 * The Chevron, former newspaper at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
 * Chevron Corporation, an American multinational energy corporation
 * Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), a United States Supreme Court case dealing with administrative law
 * Chevron Cars Ltd, a British racing car constructor
 * Chevron Engineering Ltd, a New Zealand car maker

People

 * Philip Chevron (1957–2013), Irish singer/songwriter
 * The Chevrons, an American pop group

Places

 * Chevron, Kansas, an unincorporated community, United States
 * Chevron Island, a neighbourhood in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
 * Château de Chevron, in France
 * Chevron Mountain
 * Chevron Reef, artificial reef constructed in 2000 in Santa Monica Bay
 * Chevron Rocks
 * Chevron Science Center, academic building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 * Estadio Chevron, a professional baseball stadium located in Tijuana, Baja California, in Mexico

Symbols

 * Chevron (insignia), an indicator of military rank or heraldic symbol
 * Guillemet, a type of quotation mark that looks like a pair of small chevrons
 * Angle brackets, another pair of punctuation marks sometimes called chevrons
 * Trill (music), a wavy line indicating a trill
 * Chevron, a symbol used in reticles in firearm scopes like the ACOG
 * Chevron (flag), a flag pattern
 * Circumflex, a chevron-shaped diacritical mark
 * Caron/haček, a diacritical mark known as "inverted chevron"

Other uses

 * Chevron, a type of moustache
 * Chevron, part of a stargate in the Stargate fictional universe
 * "Chevron" (song), from the 2016 album Mariner
 * Chevron bead, special glass beads