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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:

In entertainment

• Bridge (card game disambiguation), multiple card games
• Bridge (instrument), the device that anchors the strings to or holds the strings above the body of a string instrument, such as a violin or guitar
• Bridge (music), an interlude that connects two parts of song
• The Bridge (documentary film), a film about suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge
• Bridge Records, Inc., a record label
• Hashiwokakero, meaning "build bridges", a Japanese puzzle

People

• Bridge Carson, fictional character
• Frank Bridge, English composer
• Wayne Bridge, footballer who plays for Chelsea FC

Places

• Bridge, Kent, a place in Kent, England
• Bridge River, a river in British Columbia, Canada
• Bridge River Cones, a group of volcanoes in British Columbia, Canada
• Scotland has many place names in the style of Bridge of Allan

In science and technology

In electronics

• Bridge circuits, such as:
  • Bridge rectifier, an electronic circuit for converting alternating current to direct current
  • Wheatstone bridge, an electronic circuit for comparing resistors, capacitors or inductors to high standards of accuracy
  • H-bridge, an electronic circuit which enables DC electric motors to be run forwards or backwards

In computers

• Adobe Bridge, a program included with the Adobe Creative Suite to link the other programs together
• Bridge pattern, a computer science design used to separate an abstraction and its actual implementation
• Network bridge, an electronic device used to connect two computer or telephone network segments
• Protocol bridge, an electronics device or piece of software that translates from one communications protocol or programming API to another

Other science and technology uses

• Bridge (chemical), an unbranched chain of atoms or an atom or a covalent bond connecting two bridgeheads in a polycyclic compound
• Bridge (dentistry), a fixed prosthesis used to replace missing teeth
• Salt bridge, in chemistry, a laboratory device used to connect the oxidation and reduction half-cells of a galvanic cell (electrochemical cell)
• Salt bridge (protein) (or salt bond), in protein chemistry, is the term used to denote chemical bonds between positively and negatively charged side-chains of proteins
• Bridge digital camera, a type of high-end live-preview digital camera that has many features of digital SLRs

Other uses

• Bridge (exercise), most commonly, the balancing of the body on the head and feet
• Bridge (graph theory), an edge whose removal disconnects a graph
• Bridge (grappling), in wrestling, a move intended to dislodge an opponent in top control
• Bridge (interpersonal), in social networks, a relationship that acts as a communication channel between different groups
• Bridge (prosody), a point in a line of poetry where a break in a word-unit cannot occur
• Bridge (ship), the area of a ship from which it is commanded
• Bridge loan, a short-term loan to cover a gap in time until a new long-term financing is realised
• Bridge program, a higher education program

See also

• Bridge the gap
• The Bridge

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