Bend
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Bend may refer to:
  • Bending
    Bending
    In engineering mechanics, bending characterizes the behavior of a slender structural element subjected to an external load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element. The structural element is assumed to be such that at least one of its dimensions is a small fraction, typically...

  • Bend, British Columbia
    Bend, British Columbia
    Bend is a railway point located between Penny and Dome Creek on the Fraser River in central British Columbia. A post office was established 1 May 1930 and closed on 15 October 1942.Via Rail's Jasper – Prince Rupert train calls at the Bend railway station....

     (location in Canada)
  • Bend, Oregon
    Bend, Oregon
    Bend is a city in and the county seat of Deschutes County, Oregon, United States, and the principal city of the Bend, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bend is Central Oregon's largest city, and, despite its modest size, is the de facto metropolis of the region, owing to the low population...

    , a city
    • Bend Elks
      Bend Elks
      The Bend Elks are an amateur baseball team from Bend, Oregon.The team is a founding member of the wooden-bat West Coast League, a collegiate summer baseball league in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia that began play in 2005. The Elks play their home games at Vince Genna Stadium. The team...

      , baseball team located in Bend, Oregon
  • Bend Airport (disambiguation)
    • Bend railway station
      Bend railway station
      The Bend railway station is on the Canadian National Railway mainline in Bend, British Columbia. Via Rail's Jasper – Prince Rupert train calls at the station as a flag stop.- External links :*...

  • Bend (heraldry)
    Bend (heraldry)
    In heraldry, a bend is a coloured band running from the upper right corner of the shield to the lower left . Writers differ in how much of the field they say it covers, ranging from one-fifth up to one-third...

    , a colored band that runs from the upper left (as seen by the viewer) corner of the shield to the lower right
  • Decompression sickness
    Decompression sickness
    Decompression sickness describes a condition arising from dissolved gases coming out of solution into bubbles inside the body on depressurization...

    , commonly "the bends"
  • Bend knot, a general term for a knot used to tie two ropes together
  • Bend (guitar), a guitar technique
  • Bending for harmonica
    Blues harp
    The Richter-tuned harmonica, or 10-hole harmonica or blues harp , is the most widely known type of harmonica...

  • Bend, a curvature in a pipe, tube, or pipeline (see bend radius
    Bend radius
    Bend radius, which is measured to the inside curvature, is the minimum radius one can bend a pipe, tube, sheet, cable or hose without kinking it, damaging it, or shortening its life. The smaller the bend radius, the greater is the material flexibility...

    )

Music

  • Bend, an album by 8stops7
    8stops7
    8stops7 is a hard rock band from Ventura, California. Vocalist Evan Sula-Goff explained the meaning of the band's name as, "Basically, seven is a symbol of something you want to get away from, and eight is the door you go through to get there."...

  • The Bends
    The Bends
    The Bends is the second studio album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on 13 March 1995 by Parlophone. The Bends was produced by John Leckie at EMI's studios in London, and engineered by Nigel Godrich, who would go on to produce all future albums by the band...

    , an album by Radiohead
  • Glissando
    Glissando
    In music, a glissando is a glide from one pitch to another. It is an Italianized musical term derived from the French glisser, to glide. In some contexts it is distinguished from the continuous portamento...


See also

  • Bendable (disambiguation)
  • Bender (disambiguation)
  • Bending (disambiguation)
    Bending (disambiguation)
    Bending may refer to:* Bending, the behavior of a structural element subjected to a lateral load* Bending , a sheet metalworking process used in manufacture...

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