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A knee is a joint typical of humans, mammals, birds and arthropods.

Contents

• Shapes
• People
• Science and technology
• Other uses
• See also

Knee may also refer to:

Shapes

Structures with relatively sharp bends, such as:

• Cypress knee, structure on cypress-tree root
• Knee (construction), a bent piece of wood that takes stress, as commonly used in construction of wooden boats (boat knee)
• Knee rafter, a bent rafter used to gain head room in an attic
• Knee wall, a short wall typically under one meter used to support the rafters in timber roof construction
• Knee (geography), a distinctive riverbend

People

• Knee (gamer), champion Tekken player and influencer
• Allan Knee, American film and television writer and playwright
• Bernie Knee (1924–1994), American singer/musician
• Christian Knees (born 1981), German racing cyclist
• Derek Knee (1922–2014), British Army officer, interpreter for Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
• Fred Knee (1868–1914), British trade unionist and socialist politician
• Gina Knee (1898–1982), American painter
• Miriam Knee (born 1938), Australian cricketer

Science and technology

• Hard knee or soft knee, a setting in an electronic audio compressor device
• Knee energy region in physics is an energy spectra for cosmic rays
• Knee of a curve, for example see maximum power point tracker

Other uses

• Knee (strike), a strike with the kneecap or the surrounding area
• KNEE (FM), a radio station (95.1 FM) licensed to serve Nenana, Alaska, United States
• KNEE-LD, a defunct low-power television station (channel 10) formerly licensed to serve Malaga, etc., Washington, United States
• "Knees", a song by Bebe Rexha from the album Expectations
• "Knees", a 2018 single by Ocean Alley, from the album Chiaroscuro

See also

• Kneecap
• Wounded Knee (disambiguation)

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