Ramp (disambiguation)
Appearance
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A ramp, or inclined plane, is a simple machine.
Ramp may also refer to:
Businesses and organisations
[edit]- Ramp (company), an American financial service and technology company based in New York, NY.
Science
[edit]- Ramp function, in mathematics the integral of the unit step function
- Receptor activity-modifying protein (RAMP), a class of protein
- (R)-1-amino-2-methoxymethylpyrrolidine, a chiral auxiliary used in the Enders SAMP/RAMP hydrazone-alkylation reaction
Transportation
[edit]- Airport ramp, the area where aircraft are loaded and unloaded
- Linkspan, on a ferry or a ferry slip
- Interchange (road) entrance ramp/on ramp or exit ramp/off ramp, on a freeway
- Speed bumps, also called ramps
- Wheelchair ramp, an alternative to stairs
- Parking ramp, a multi-story structure for car parking with ramps between floors
Sports
[edit]- Vert ramp and mini ramp, half-pipe structures used in gravity extreme sports
- Mark Ramprakash (born 1969), English cricketer nicknamed "Ramps"
Music
[edit]- RAMP (American band), an American soul/jazz group from Cincinnati
- RAMP (Portuguese band), a Portuguese metal band
- Ramp (album), a 1991 album by Giant Sand
- "Ramp! (The Logical Song)", German band Scooter's cover of the Supertramp song
Places
[edit]- Ramp, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Ramp Run, a stream in Ohio
Other uses
[edit]- Ramp (plant), Allium tricoccum, a wild onion or garlic, native to eastern North America
- Car ramp, a simple method of raising a vehicle from the ground
- Operation Ramp, an Australian Defence Force evacuation of civilians during the 2006 Lebanon War
- Ramp or catwalk, used by models in a fashion show; see Runway (fashion)
- RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability
- RAMP software for producing synthetic demand timeseries in open energy system models
- Responsible Alcohol Management Program, a program of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
- Russian Anonymous Marketplace, a Russian dark web market that shut down in 2017