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A Ramp or Inclined plane is a simple machine.
Ramp may also refer to:
Businesses and organisations
- Ramp (company), an American financial service and technology company based in New York, NY.
Science
- 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
- 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
- Vert ramp and mini ramp, half-pipe structures used in gravity extreme sports
- Mark Ramprakash (born 1969), English cricketer nicknamed "Ramps"
Music
- RAMP, a soul/jazz group from Cincinnati
- Ramp, a 1991 album by Giant Sand
- "Ramp! (The Logical Song)", German band Scooter's cover of the Supertramp song
Places
- Ramp, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Ramp Run, a stream in Ohio
Other uses
- Allium tricoccum, ramp or ramps, common name for 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
- Responsible Alcohol Management Program, a voluntary certification managed by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (www.LCB.pa.gov/Education/RAMP/Pages/default.aspx)
- Russian Anonymous Marketplace, a Russian dark web market that shut down in 2017
See also
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