Examples
- Several Serpentine Rivers in the world, including
- Serpentine River, New Zealand
- Serpentine River (Tasmania), Australia
- Serpentine River (Western Australia)
- Serpentine River (British Columbia), Canada
- Serpentine River (New Brunswick), Canada
- The River Westbourne and Serpentine (lake), London, England (formerly known as the Serpentine River).
- This shape is often used while riding horses as a riding figure, to help train the animal and help improve the rider.
- Boustrophedon text is ordered in a serpentine fashion.
- The zigzag entropy coding used in JPEG images is evocative of the serpentine.
- Thomas Jefferson designed serpentine brick walls for the University of Virginia.
- Sigmoid function
- Line of Beauty
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