Ridge (disambiguation)

A ridge is a geological feature that features a continuous elevational crest for some distance.

Ridge may also refer to:

Places

India

United Kingdom

United States

Arts, entertainment, and media

Characters

  • Ridge (comics), a comics character in the Marvel universe
  • Ridge Forrester, a fictional character on CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful

Games

Television

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

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

See also

  • The Ridge (disambiguation)
  • Ridge Township (disambiguation)
  • Ridge, Texas (disambiguation)
  • Oak Ridge (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles containing Ridge
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