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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
Arts, entertainment, and media
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
Other arts, entertainment, and media
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
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