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A bridge
Bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...

is a structure built so that a transportation route can cross above an obstacle.

Bridge can also refer to:

Places

Bridge, Kent
Bridge, Kent
Bridge is a village and civil parish near Canterbury in Kent, South East England.Bridge village is situated in the Nailbourne valley in a rural setting on the old Roman road, Watling Street, formerly the main road between London and Dover...

, in Kent, England
Bridge, California
Bridge, California
Bridge is a former settlement in Fresno County, California. It was located on the San Joaquin River west-southeast of El Prado. The place was named for Lanes Bridge, which straddled the San Joaquin River at the point....

, a former town in Fresno County
Bridge River
Bridge River
The Bridge River is, or was, a major tributary of British Columbia's Fraser River, entering that stream about six miles upstream from the town of Lillooet.-Name:Its name in the Lillooet language is Xwisten , sometimes spelled Nxwisten or Nxo-isten)...

, a river in British Columbia, Canada
Bridge River Cones
Bridge River Cones
The Bridge River Cones, sometimes referred to as the Lillooet Cones and Salal Creek Cones, is the name given to a volcanic field located on the north flank of the upper Bridge River, about west of the town of Gold Bridge...

, a group of volcanoes in British Columbia, Canada
Bridge of Allan
Bridge of Allan
Bridge of Allan is a town in Stirling council area in Scotland, just north of the city of Stirling. It was formerly administered by Stirlingshire and Central Regional Council....

, a number of places in Scotland

Card games

Bridge whist
Bridge Whist
Bridge whist is a card game, a variation of whist popular 70 years ago. Later variations of the game led to auction bridge and contract bridge. It had the same or very similar rules to Russian whist of the time....

, the original game
Auction bridge
Auction bridge
The card game auction bridge, the third step in the evolution of the general game of bridge, was developed from straight bridge in 1904. The precursor to contract bridge, its predecessors were whist and bridge whist....

, the form of the card game popular from its derivation from whist and bridge whist in about 1903 until superseded by contract bridge beginning in 1926
Contract bridge
Contract bridge
Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

, the modern and most common form of bridge; derived from auction bridge primarily by means of changes to the scoring system
Rubber bridge
Rubber bridge
Rubber bridge is a form of contract bridge and is played with four players. It is most often played for fun but is also played seriously for money...

, a form of contract bridge with a specific scoring methodology in which the objective is to be the first partnership to win two games—a rubber
Chicago (bridge card game)
Chicago (bridge card game)
Chicago, also known as Four-deal Bridge and Short Bridge, is a form of contract bridge and a variation of rubber bridge in which sets of four deals are played and scored...

where part-scores don't count for the game
Duplicate bridge
Duplicate bridge
Duplicate bridge is the most widely used variation of contract bridge in club and tournament play. It is called duplicate because the same bridge deal is played at each table and scoring is based on relative performance...

, a form of bridge in which the same set of hands are played by all competitors and the scoring is based upon their relative performance
Singaporean bridge
Singaporean bridge
Singaporean bridge is a re-invention of sorts of the traditional game of contract bridge. This version of bridge derives its name from where it is believed to have been invented, Singapore, and just like its traditional predecessor, there are variations in the rules. It is also known as floating...

, a re-invention of the game with very different rules

Music

Bridge (music)
Bridge (music)
In music, especially western popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section which also prepares for the return of the original material section...

, an interlude that connects two parts of song
Bridge (instrument)
Bridge (instrument)
A bridge is a device for supporting the strings on a stringed instrument and transmitting the vibration of those strings to some other structural component of the instrument in order to transfer the sound to the surrounding air.- Explanation :...

, the device that anchors the strings to or holds the strings above the body of a string instrument, such as a violin or guitar
- 3rd bridge
  3rd Bridge
  The 3rd bridge is an extended playing technique used on some string instruments , that allows a musician to produce distinctive timbres and overtones that are unavailable on a conventional string instrument with two bridges...
  
  , an additional bridge added to a string instrument to produce overtones and a distinct timbre
Bridge (Blues Traveler album)
Bridge (Speed album)
Bridge (Joey Cape album)
Bridge (Joey Cape album)
Bridge is the first solo album by Californian punk rock musician Joey Cape, frontman of Lagwagon and Bad Astronaut, released on September 29, 2008, through Suburban Home Records....

, Cape's first solo album, released in 2008
Bridge Records, Inc.
Bridge Records, Inc.
Bridge Records, Inc. is an independent record label based in New Rochelle, New York that specializes in 20th century classical music. Its president is Becky Starobin...

, a record label

Science and mathematics

Bridge (chemical), an unbranched chain of atoms or an atom or a covalent bond connecting two bridgeheads in a polycyclic compound
- Salt bridge (protein)
  Salt bridge (protein)
  Salt bridges fall into the broader category of noncovalent interactions. A salt bridge is actually a combination of two noncovalent interactions: hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions . This is most commonly observed to contribute stability to the entropically unfavorable folded...
  
  (or salt bond), in protein chemistry, is the term used to denote chemical bonds between positively and negatively charged side-chains of proteins
Bridge (graph theory)
Bridge (graph theory)
In graph theory, a bridge is an edge whose deletion increases the number of connected components. Equivalently, an edge is a bridge if and only if it is not contained in any cycle....

, an edge whose removal disconnects a graph
Salt bridge
Salt bridge
A salt bridge, in chemistry, is a laboratory device used to connect the oxidation and reduction half-cells of a galvanic cell , a type of electrochemical cell...

, in chemistry, a laboratory device used to connect the oxidation and reduction half-cells of a galvanic cell (electrochemical cell)
Myocardial bridge
Myocardial bridge
A myocardial bridge occurs when one of the coronary arteries tunnels through the myocardium rather than resting on top of it. Typically, the arteries rest on top of the heart muscle and feed blood down into smaller vessels that populate throughout the myocardium. But if the muscle grows around one...

, a heart defect

Engineering and technology

Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge is an organizational software application created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using an interface similar to the file browser found in previous versions...

, a program included with the Adobe Creative Suite to link the other programs together
Bridge pattern
Bridge pattern
The bridge pattern is a design pattern used in software engineering which is meant to "decouple an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently"...

, a computer science design used to separate an abstraction and its actual implementation
Bridge camera, generally considered to fill the niche between single-lens reflex (SLR) and compact point-and-shoot cameras
Bridge, in clock- and watchmaking, a component in an ébauche
Ébauche
Ébauche is a term used in art to denote the first preliminary underpainting or quick sketch in oils for an oil painting. One early criticism of Impressionist painting was that its practitioners sought to elevate the status of the ébauche to the level of finished painting...
Bridge (dentistry)
Bridge (dentistry)
A bridge, also known as a fixed partial denture, is a dental restoration used to replace a missing tooth by joining permanently to adjacent teeth or dental implants....

, a fixed prosthesis used to replace missing teeth

Electronics

Bridge circuit
Bridge circuit
A bridge circuit is a type of electrical circuit in which two circuit branches are "bridged" by a third branch connected between the first two branches at some intermediate point along them. The bridge was originally developed for laboratory measurement purposes and one of the intermediate...
- Bridge rectifier, an electronic circuit for converting alternating current to direct current
- Wheatstone bridge
  Wheatstone bridge
  A Wheatstone bridge is an electrical circuit used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes the unknown component. Its operation is similar to the original potentiometer. It was invented by Samuel Hunter Christie in 1833 and...
  
  , an electronic circuit for comparing resistors, capacitors or inductors to high standards of accuracy
- H-bridge
  H-bridge
  An H bridge is an electronic circuit that enables a voltage to be applied across a load in either direction. These circuits are often used in robotics and other applications to allow DC motors to run forwards and backwards...
  
  , an electronic circuit which enables DC electric motors to be run forwards or backwards
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

People

Bridge Carson, fictional character
Chris Bridge
Chris Bridge
Chris Bridge is an English professional rugby league footballer who plays for Warrington Wolves and has also represented Ireland and has also been called up the England squad.-Playing career:...

, English rugby league footballer
Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others...

, English composer
Wayne Bridge
Wayne Bridge
Wayne Michael Bridge is an English footballer who plays as a left back for Manchester City.A graduate of the Southampton Academy where he made his debut in 1998, he has also played for Chelsea and Fulham during his Premiership career....

(born 1980), English footballer

Film

Bridge (1949 film)
Bridge (1949 film)
Bridge is a 1949 Chinese war film made shortly after the Communist revolution in China; as such, it is considered the first film completed after the founding of the People's Republic of China...

, a 1949 Chinese film, generally considered the first film produced in the Peoples Republic of China
Bridge (1988 film), a 1988 USA-USSR film

Other uses

Bridge (dentistry)
Bridge (dentistry)
A bridge, also known as a fixed partial denture, is a dental restoration used to replace a missing tooth by joining permanently to adjacent teeth or dental implants....

is a dental restoration used to replace a missing tooth by joining permanently to adjacent teeth
Bridge (exercise)
Bridge (exercise)
Bridge is an exercise. Many variations of this exercise are employed throughout the world, most commonly the balancing of the body on the head and feet. Hands are occasionally used instead of or along with the head. It is effective in improving lower back strength...

, most commonly, the balancing of the body on the head and feet
Bridge (grappling)
Bridge (grappling)
The bridge is a grappling move performed from a supine position, lying down face-up. It involves lifting the pelvis off the ground so that the body weight is supported on the shoulders at one end and on the feet at the other...

, in wrestling, a move intended to dislodge an opponent in top control
Bridge (interpersonal)
Bridge (interpersonal)
-General Bridge:In general, a bridge is a direct tie between nodes that would otherwise be in disconnected components of the graph.This means that say that A and B make up a social networking graph, n_1 is in A, n_2 is in B, and there is a social tie e between n_1 and n_2. If e were to be removed,...

, in social networks, a relationship that acts as a communication channel between different groups
Bridge (nautical), the area of a ship from which it is commanded
Bridge (prosody)
Bridge (prosody)
A bridge in poetic meter is a point in a line where a break in a word-unit cannot occur....

, a point in a line of poetry where a break in a word-unit cannot occur
Bridge loan
Bridge loan
A bridge loan is a type of short-term loan, typically taken out for a period of 2 weeks to 3 years pending the arrangement of larger or longer-term financing.-Description:A bridge loan is interim financing for an individual or business until...

, a short-term loan to cover a gap in time until a new long-term financing is realised
Bridge program (higher education)
Bridge program (higher education)
A Bridge program is a higher education program specifically designed to assist a student with an attained initial educational level to attend college courses and achieve a terminal degree in the same field of study and in less time than an entry-level student would require...

, a higher education program