Bridge (disambiguation)

• Transportation: a bridge is a structure built to carry a way across an obstacle, such as a valley.
• Ships: the bridge of a ship is so called because it once was a bridge between paddlewheels on either side of early steamboats. This new vantage point was deemed so convenient that it was retained after the paddlewheels were superseded.
• Card game: "Bridge" is also the name of a card game, short for "contract bridge" or "auction bridge" or "duplicate bridge."
• Music:
  • In a musical string instrument a bridge is the device which anchors the strings at the body end of the strings.
  • In song writing a bridge is a part of a song that connects two parts of that song, building a harmonic connection between those parts.
• Dentistry: a bridge, or "partial plate," is a dental prosthesis used in place of missing teeth and may be removable or permanently attached.
• Electronics: a bridge is an electronic device used to connect two segments of a computer network (combining two networks) or of a telephone network (to support multi-party conference call on telephone).
• Finance: a bridge, short for "bridge loan," is the financing for a construction project that is replaced by (= paid off with the proceeds of) a mortgage on the property once it is built.
• Computer science: "Bridge" is the name of a design pattern for computer programming introduced by the Gang of Four in their book Design Patterns. Its use is to separate an abstraction and its actual implementation into separate class hierarchies.

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