Bent may refer to:
Places
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Bent, Iran, a city in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
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Bent District
Bent District ( fa, بخش بنت) is a district ( ''bakhsh'') in Nik Shahr County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia ...
, 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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, United States
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Bents, Saskatchewan, an unincorporated community in Canada
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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, 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)
Bent are an electronica act from Nottingham in England, consisting of Neil "Nail" Tolliday and Simon Mills. They released their debut album '' Programmed to Love'' in 2000.
The duo were initially noted for their ability to create their own mi ...
, 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, about atomic orbital hybridization
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Bent grass or bent, the plant genus ''Agrostis''
People
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Bent Fabric (1924–2020), Danish composer
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Bent Flyvbjerg (born 1952), Danish economic geographer
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Bent Larsen (1935–2010), Danish chess grandmaster
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Bent Mejding (born 1937), Danish actor
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Bent Melchior (1929–2021), Danish rabbi
Other uses
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Bent (surname)
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Bent (structural), 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)
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Danish masculine given names