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A knee is a joint typical of mammals, birds and arthropods.
Knee may also refer to:
Shapes
editStructures with relatively sharp bends, such as:
- Knee (construction), a bent piece of wood that takes stress, as commonly used in construction of wooden boats
- Knee (geography), a distinctive riverbend
- Cypress knee, structure on cypress-tree root
Places
edit- Knees, the German name for Satchinez, Timiș County, Romania
People
edit- Allan Knee, a film and television writer and playwright
- Bernie Knee (1924–1994), a singer/musician
- Christian Knees (born 1981), a German racing cyclist
- Derek Knee, (1922–2014), an interpreter for Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
- Fred Knee (1868–1914), a British trade unionist and socialist politician
- Gina Knee (1898–1982), American painter
- Miriam Knee (born 1938), a former Australian cricketer
Science and technology
edit- Hard knee or soft knee, a setting in an electronic audio compressor device
- Knee energy region in physics is an energy spectra for cosmic rays
- Knee of a curve, for example see maximum power point tracker
Other uses
edit- Knee (strike), a strike with the kneecap or the surrounding area
- KNEE (FM), a radio station (95.1 FM) licensed to serve Nenana, Alaska, United States
- KNEE-LD, a defunct low-power television station (channel 10) formerly licensed to serve Malaga, etc., Washington, United States
- "Knees", a song by Bebe Rexha from the album Expectations
- "Knees", a 2018 single by Ocean Alley, from the album Chiaroscuro
See also
edit- Kneecap
- Quarterback kneel, a football play
- Wounded Knee (disambiguation)