Chute

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Chute may refer to:

• Chute (gravity), a channel down which falling materials are guided
  • Chute (landform), a steep-sided passage through which water flows rapidly
  • Mail chute, a letter collection device
• Chute (in North America), a cattle race, a channel for handling and sorting farm animals
• Squeeze chute, a cage for restraining a farm animal
• Chute (racecourse), a projection extending from either end of an oval-shaped racecourse
• Parachute, a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag
• Pilot chute, a small auxiliary parachute

People

• Chaloner Chute (died 1659), Speaker of the House of Commons
• Christopher G. Chute, American biomedical informatics researcher
• Philip Chute, MP
• Alinoor Chute, Director Supply Chain Management, Mandera County Government-Kenya

Places

• Chute, Wiltshire, a parish in England, United Kingdom
• Chute River, a short river in Maine, United States

Television

• Chute! (television programme), a children's programme
• "The Chute", a 1996 episode in the third season of Star Trek: Voyager

See also

• Shoot (disambiguation)