Bent may refer to:
Places
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Bent, Iran
Bent ( fa, بنت, also Romanized as Bint) is a city in Bent District, Nik Shahr County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in We ...
, a city in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
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Bent District, an administrative subdivision of Iran
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Bent, Netherlands
Bent is a hamlet in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is located in the municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn,''VUGA's Alfabetische Plaatsnamengids van Nederland'' (13th edition), VUGA, 1997. about 2 km northwest of the village Hazerswoud ...
, a village in the municipality of Rijnwoude, the Netherlands
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Bent County, Colorado
Bent County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,650. The county seat and only incorporated municipality is Las Animas. The county is named in honor of frontier trader William Bent.
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Bents, Saskatchewan
Bents is an unincorporated community in Marriott No. 317, Saskatchewan, Canada. Prior to the town founding, the area was referred to as Piche. Bents took its name from Longniddry Bents in Scotland. Its derelict wooden grain elevator was once the ...
, an unincorporated community in Canada
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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site
Bent's Old Fort is an 1833 fort located in Otero County in southeastern Colorado, United States. A company owned by Charles Bent and William Bent and Ceran St. Vrain built the fort to trade with Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Plains Indians and ...
, frontier trading post, in
La Junta, Colorado
La Junta is a home rule municipality in , the county seat of, and the most populous municipality of Otero County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 7,322 at the 2020 United States Census. La Junta is located on the Arkansas Ri ...
Arts and entertainment
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''Bent'' (play), a 1979 play by Martin Sherman
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''Bent'' (1997 film), a 1997 film by Sean Mathias based on the play
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''Bent'' (2018 film)
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''Bent'' (TV series), an NBC romantic television comedy series
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Bent (band), an electronica duo from England
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'"Bent" (song), a 2000 song by Matchbox Twenty
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''Bent'' (magazine), a UK magazine
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''Bent'' (album), a 2012 album by Ssion
* ''Bent,'' a 2019 album by
Stonefield
Science
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Bent molecular geometry
In chemistry, molecules with a non-collinear arrangement of two adjacent bonds have bent molecular geometry, also known as angular or V-shaped. Certain atoms, such as oxygen, will almost always set their two (or more) covalent bonds in non-colline ...
, in chemistry
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Bent's rule
In chemistry, Bent's rule describes and explains the relationship between the orbital hybridization of central atoms in molecules and the electronegativities of substituents. The rule was stated by Henry A. Bent as follows:
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, about atomic orbital hybridization
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Bent grass
''Agrostis'' (bent or bentgrass) is a large and very nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family, found in nearly all the countries in the world. It has been bred as a GMO creeping bent grass.
Species
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or bent, the plant genus ''Agrostis''
People
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Bent Fabric
Bent Fabricius-Bjerre (7 December 1924 – 28 July 2020), better known internationally as Bent Fabric, was a Danish pianist and composer.
Biography
Bent Fabricius-Bjerre was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He started a jazz ensemble after W ...
(1924–2020), Danish composer
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Bent Flyvbjerg
Bent Flyvbjerg is a Danish economic geographer. He was the First BT Professor and Inaugural Chair of Major Programme Management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School (retiring from the post in 2021) and is the Villum Kann Rasmussen Profess ...
(born 1952), Danish economic geographer
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Bent Larsen
Jørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 1935 – 9 September 2010) was a Danish chess grandmaster and author. Known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play, he was the second strongest non-Soviet player, behind Bobby Fischer, for much of the 196 ...
(1935–2010), Danish chess grandmaster
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Bent Mejding
Bent Mejding (born 14 January 1937) is a Danish actor, stage director and theatre manager. He won a Danish Film Academy Award in 1985 and 2007. He is married to the actress Susse Wold.
Career
Mejding had his debut at Folketeatret in Copenhagen ...
(born 1937), Danish actor
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Bent Melchior
Bent Melchior (24 June 1929 – 28 July 2021) was a chief rabbi of Denmark.
Life and career
Melchior was born to Danish parents in the German city of Beuthen (now Bytom in Poland), where his father, Marcus Melchior, was rabbi. In 1943, durin ...
(1929–2021), Danish rabbi
Other uses
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Bent (surname) Bent is a surname common in English speaking countries. It may refer to:
* Alex Bent (born 1993), percussionist for American heavy metal band Trivium
* Amel Bent (born 1985), French singer
* Arthur Cleveland Bent (1866–1954), American ornitholog ...
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Bent (structural) A bent in American English is a transverse rigid frame (or similar structures such as three-hinged arches). Historically, bents were a common way of making a timber frame; they are still often used for such, and are also seen in small steel-frame ...
, a repeated cross-sectional sub-structure of a frame
* Bent, the insignia of the engineering honor society
Tau Beta Pi
The Tau Beta Pi Association (commonly Tau Beta Pi, , or TBP) is the oldest engineering honor society and the second oldest collegiate honor society in the United States. It honors engineering students in American universities who have shown a ...
See also
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Bend (disambiguation)
Bend may refer to:
Materials
* Bend, a curvature in a pipe, tube, or pipeline (see Bend radius)
* Bend knot, a knot used to tie two ropes together; see List of bend knots
*Bending, the deformation of an object due to an applied load
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