# Chevron

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Not to be confused with [Chevon](/source/Chevon).

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

## Organisations

- [Chevron Corporation](/source/Chevron_Corporation), an American multinational energy corporation - *[Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.](/source/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](/source/Chevron_Cars_Ltd), a British racing car constructor
- [Chevron Engineering Ltd](/source/Chevron_Engineering_Ltd), a New Zealand car maker
- *[The Chevron](/source/The_Chevron)*, former newspaper at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

## Symbols

A chevron symbol has a horizontal orientation. For possible vertical equivalents, see [Angle brackets](/source/Angle_bracket) and [Guillemets](/source/Guillemet)

- [Chevron (insignia)](/source/Chevron_(insignia)), an indicator of military rank or heraldic symbol
- [Trill (music)](/source/Trill_(music)), a wavy line indicating a trill
- Chevron, a symbol used in reticles in firearm scopes like the [ACOG](/source/Advanced_Combat_Optical_Gunsight)
- [Chevron (flag)](/source/Chevron_(flag)), a flag pattern
- [Circumflex](/source/Circumflex), a chevron-shaped diacritical mark - [Caret](/source/Caret), the common name for the freestanding (ASCII) circumflex
- [Caron/haček](/source/Caron), a diacritical mark known as "inverted circumflex"

## Places

- [Chevron, Kansas](/source/Chevron,_Kansas), an unincorporated community, United States
- [Chevron Island](/source/Chevron_Island), a neighbourhood in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
- [Château de Chevron](/source/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Chevron), in France
- [Chevron Mountain](/source/Chevron_Mountain)
- [Chevron Reef](/source/Chevron_Reef), artificial reef constructed in 2000 in Santa Monica Bay
- [Chevron Rocks](/source/Chevron_Rocks)
- [Chevron Science Center](/source/Chevron_Science_Center), academic building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- [Estadio Chevron](/source/Estadio_Chevron), a professional baseball stadium located in Tijuana, Baja California, in Mexico
- [Hebron](/source/Hebron), a city in Palestine

## Science and technology

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

## Other uses

- Chevron, a type of [moustache](/source/Moustache)
- Chevron, part of a [stargate](/source/Stargate_(device)) in the *Stargate* fictional universe
- [Philip Chevron](/source/Philip_Chevron) (1957–2013), Irish singer/songwriter
- [The Chevrons](/source/The_Chevrons), an American pop group
- ["Chevron" (song)](/source/Chevron_(song)), from the 2016 album *Mariner*
- [Chevron bead](/source/Chevron_bead), special glass beads
- [Chevron (sculpture)](/source/Chevron_(sculpture)), an abstract sculpture

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