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

See also

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