Ridge (disambiguation)
# Ridge (disambiguation)

A ridge is a long, narrow elevation of the land surface.

Ridge may also refer to:

* Ridge in a field, which divides troughs in ridge and furrow agriculture
* Ridge (roof), an architectural element on roofs
* Ridge (surname)

## Places

### India

* The Ridge, Shimla, open space in Himachal Pradesh, India

### United Kingdom

* Ridge, Dorset, a village in Dorset, England
* Ridge, Hertfordshire, a village in Hertfordshire, England
* Ridge, Wiltshire

### United States

* Ridge, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
* Ridge, Maryland
* Ridge, New York, a location on Long Island
* Ridge Township, Shelby County, Illinois
* West Ridge, Chicago, Illinois
* Ridge (CTA station), former railway station in Chicago
* Ridge, Robertson County, Texas
* Ridge, West Virginia

## Arts, entertainment, and media

### Characters

* Ridge (comics), a character from Marvel Comics
* Ridge Forrester, a fictional character in the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful

### Games

* Ridge Racer, an arcade game

### Television

* Sophy Ridge on Sunday, a Sky News Sunday morning talk show fronted by Sophy Ridge

## Mathematics

* Ridge (differential geometry), curves of locally maximal curvature on surfaces in 3D
* Ridge (geometry), an (n-2)-dimensional element of a polytope
* Ridge regression, a statistical regularization method
* Ridge function, a multivariate function that decomposes into a projection and a univariate function

## Science

* Ridge (biology), a domain of the genome with a high gene expression
* Ridge (meteorology), an elongated region of relatively high atmospheric pressure
* Ridge detection, an image descriptor for capturing elongated objects that are brighter than their surrounding
* RIDGE (Radar Integrated Display with Geospatial Elements), in which weather radar images are projected on a map

## Other uses

* Ridge, a term used in dog breeding, meaning a ridge of hair that runs along the back in the opposite direction from the rest of the coat, e.g. on the Thai Ridgeback
* Ridge Vineyards, a wine producer in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California
* Ridge Cloud, a cloud provider offering a computing platform for users who want to run workloads with Kubernetes-based architectures in various locations
