Glide
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Glide may refer to:
- Glide (automobile company)Glide (automobile company)The Glide automobile was an American automobile manufactured by the Bartholomew Company in Peoria Heights, Illinois beginning in 1902. Founded by John B. Bartholomew, the company continued to produce automobiles until 1920, when the company began manufacturing trucks for the Avery Company, of which...
, early 20th century American automobile company - Glide (flight), to fly without thrust
- Glide (linguistics), synonym for semivowel
- Glide, OregonGlide, OregonGlide is a census-designated place in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,690 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000,...
, census-designated place in the United States - Glide (album), an album by Jerry Douglas
- Bacterial glidingBacterial glidingBacterial gliding is a process whereby a bacterium can move under its own power. This process does not involve the use of flagella, which is a more common means of motility in bacteria...
, a form of motility in biology - Oral-B Glide, an ePTFE dental floss that before its acquisition by Procter & Gamble was known simply as "Glide Floss"
- Glide APIGlide APIGlide is a 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx Interactive for their Voodoo Graphics 3D accelerator cards. Although it originally started as a proprietary API, it was later open sourced by 3dfx. It was dedicated to gaming performance, supporting geometry and texture mapping primarily, in data...
, a 3D graphics interface - Glide FM, independent local radio station broadcasting from Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Glide Memorial ChurchGlide Memorial ChurchGlide Memorial Church is a church in San Francisco, California, affiliated with the United Methodist Church that opened in 1929. Although conservative until the 1960s, since then it has served as a counter-culture rallying point and has been one of the most prominently liberal churches in the...
, San Francisco, California, United States- Glide FoundationGlide FoundationThe Glide Foundation is a charity organization based in San Francisco, named after and run by Glide Memorial Church. It is known for working with investor Warren Buffett who has donated the proceeds from his eBay "Power Lunch with Warren Buffett" auctions to Glide. The winning bid in 2006 was...
, a charitable foundation of Glide Memorial Church
- Glide Foundation
- Glide OSGlide OSGlide OS is a cross-platform web desktop developed by . It is notable for operating on both desktop operating systems, like Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and mobile operating systems like Apple iOS, Google Android and Honeycomb, BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry Tablet OS , webOS, Symbian and...
, a web desktop - Glide reflectionGlide reflectionIn geometry, a glide reflection is a type of isometry of the Euclidean plane: the combination of a reflection in a line and a translation along that line. Reversing the order of combining gives the same result...
, a geometrical transformation - GlidingGlidingGliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word soaring is also used for the sport.Gliding as a sport began in the 1920s...
, an air sport/recreation - Glide, a musical synthesizer parameter equivalent to portamentoPortamentoPortamento is a musical term originated from the Italian expression "portamento della voce" , denoting from the beginning of the 17th century a vocal slide between two pitches and its emulation by members of the violin family and certain wind instruments, and is sometimes used...
- Glide, a Pillow Pal dolphin made by Ty, Inc.
- Glide, a song by the jam band Phish from their 1992 album A Picture of Nectar
- Glide, stage name of Echo & the Bunnymen guitarist Will SergeantWill SergeantWill Sergeant is an English guitarist, best known for being a member of Echo & the Bunnymen. Born in the centre of Liverpool, he grew up in the suburb of Melling and attended nearby Deyes High School...