Gate

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A gate is an opening in a wall or fence fitted with a moveable barrier allowing it to be closed.

Gate or GATE may also refer to:

• Gate (airport), a specified location for boarding or leaving an aircraft in an airport
• Gate (engineering) a movable structure used to control the flow of fluid in a pipe or channel
• Gate (water transport), the watertight door that seals off a chamber of a lock
• Gate (molding), a channel which carries molten metal into a mold
• Gate (rowing), a hinged bar which can be locked over the top of a rowlock to prevent the oar from coming out
• Gate (solitaire), a solitaire card game
• Film gate, the opening in the front of a motion picture camera
• Gate (cytometry), a set of limits for data from a cytometer
• Gate (transistor), terminal of a field effect transistor
• Logic gate, a functional building block in digital logic such as "and", "or", or "not"
• Noise gate, a high-quality audio squelch control for reducing noise
• Range gate, the area encompassed by one pixel of radar data
• Gate valve, a valve that opens by lifting a wedge out of the path of the fluid

As a suffix

• -gate, common suffix for a public scandal, alluding to the Watergate scandal
• A part of a city in England near the historic location of a gate in the city walls, such as Moorgate in London
• Certain street names in northern England, from the Danish word 'gata', meaning "road"; for example, Micklegate in York.

Media and entertainment

• The Gate, Newcastle an entertainment centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
• Gate Theatre, in Dublin
• The Gate, a novel by Natsume Sōseki
• Gate of Alchemy in the Fullmetal Alchemist anime and manga
• The Gate (film), a 1987 horror movie starring Stephen Dorff
• "The Gate", the third track on the album Light & Shade by Mike Oldfield
• Gate (Mega Man), a Reploid doctor in the video game Mega Man X6
• Gate 88, a multiplayer action video game
• Gåte, a Norwegian rock, metal, and folk band
• "Gate 49", a song by Stiff Little Fingers
• The Gates, an art installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Central Park in New York City
• GATE, fictional company T-Bag works for in season 4 of TV series Prison Break

Places

• Gate, Oklahoma
• Gate City, Virginia
• Gate District, St. Louis

GATE as acronym

• Gay Alliance Toward Equality, one of the first Canadian gay liberation groups
• Gifted education ("Gifted And Talented Education")
• Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, an Indian entrance examination for technical institutes
• GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment, a 1974 study under the Global Atmospheric Research Programme
• General Architecture for Text Engineering, a human language processing system
• Grupo de Ações Táticas Especiais (Portuguese for "Special Tactical Actions Group"), a Brazilian police special forces squad

See also

• Gates (disambiguation)
• The Gate (disambiguation)
• Gating (disambiguation)
• Gate Petroleum,a U.S. gas station franchise founded in Jacksonville, Florida
• Gate Studios, a British film studio in operation from 1928 to the early 1950's
• Báb, which means "Gate" and is the title taken by the founder of Bábism

Distinguish from

• Gait, pattern of movement of limbs

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