Bridge (disambiguation)
# Bridge (disambiguation)

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

Bridge can also refer to:

## Places

* Bridge (ward), a ward in London
* 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

* Bridge (surname)
* Bridge (musician) - an American singer, songwriter and producer

## 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:
      * Chicago (bridge card game), which is played similarly to rubber bridge but a session is limited to four deals
      * Singaporean bridge, a re-invention of the game with very different rules

### Films

* Bridge (1949 film), a Chinese film
* Die Brücke (film) (The Bridge), a 1959 German film
* The Bridge (1969 film), a Yugoslav film
* Bridge (1988 film), a USA–USSR film
* The Bridge (Scandinavian TV series) (2011– ), Danish/Swedish production crime drama
* The Bridge on the River Kwai, a 1957 British-American adventure war film

### Literature

* The Bridge (long poem), a 1930 long poem by Hart Crane
* The Bridge (short story), a 1931 short story by Franz Kafka
* The Bridge (novel), a 1986 science fiction novel by Iain Banks
* The Bridge, a 1986 fantasy novel by Jeri Massi
* The Bridge, a 1973 horror novel by John Skipp and Craig Spector
* The Bridge, a 2001 novel by Doug Marlette
* The Bridge, a 2003 mystery novel by Solomon Jones
* The Bridge, a 2012 romance novel by Karen Kingsbury
* Bridge, a 2014 novel by Patrick Jones

### Music

* Bridge (Blues Traveler album)
* Bridge (Joey Cape album), 2008
* Bridge (Speed album)
* Bridge, a Japanese-language album by Hound Dog
* Red House Painters (Bridge), the third album by Red House Painters, often referred to as the Bridge album

**Songs**

* "Bridge" (song), a song by Queensrÿche
* "Bridge Over Troubled Water", a hit song

**Other music**

* Bridge (music), an interlude that connects two parts of a song
* Bridge Records, Inc., a record label

### 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

* Bridge (exercise), most commonly, the balancing of the body on the head and feet
* Bridge (grappling), in wrestling, a move intended to dislodge an opponent in top control
* Mechanical bridge, a piece of cue sports equipment

## Healthcare

* Bridge (dentistry), a fixed prosthesis used to replace missing teeth
* Myocardial bridge, a heart defect

## 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

* Bridge (chemical), an unbranched chain of atoms or an atom or a covalent bond connecting two bridgeheads in a polycyclic compound
* A bridging ligand in inorganic chemicals
* A disulfide bridge found in proteins
   * 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
   * Salt bridge, in chemistry, a laboratory device used to connect the oxidation and reduction half-cells of a galvanic cell (electrochemical cell)
* British Mid-Ocean Ridge Initiative

## Transportation

* Bridge (nautical), the area of a ship from which it is commanded
* Bridge class stores ship, a class of ship
* Bridge-class OBO carrier, a class of ship
* SS Empire Bridge or SS Bridge, an Empire ship
* USS Bridge, several ships of the name

## Other uses

* Bridge (hill), a classification of British hills
* Bridge (interpersonal), in social networks, a relationship that acts as a communication channel between different groups
* Bridge loan, a short-term loan to cover a gap in time until a new long-term financing is realised
* Bridge program (higher education), a higher education program
* Natural bridge, a rock formation where an arch has formed with an opening underneath
* Suicide bridge, a bridge used frequently to die by suicide
