Brent may refer to:
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Brent (name)
Brent is an Old English given name and surname. The place name can be from Celtic words meaning "holy one" (if it refers to the River Brent), or "high place", literally, "from a steep hill" (if it refers to the villages in Somerset and Devon). The ...
, an English given and surname
Place name
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Brent, Alabama
Brent is a city in Bibb County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 2,972.
History
Brent was founded in 1898 along the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad line in the southern portion of Bibb County, named after surveyor Bre ...
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Brent, Florida
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Brent, Georgia Brent is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, in the U.S. state of Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
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Brent, Missouri Brent is an extinct town in Pemiscot County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.
The community once had a schoolhouse, Brent School, now defunct. Brent was named after the proprietor of a local sawmill
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, a ghost town
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Brent, Oklahoma
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Brent, Cornwall
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Brent Knoll, a hill in Somerset, England
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Brent Knoll (village), a village at the foot of the hill
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East Brent
East Brent is a village and civil parish, on the eastern edge of a hill that dominates the surrounding level countryside—Brent Knoll—close to the M5 motorway, west of Axbridge, in the Sedgemoor district of the county of Somerset, in the so ...
, another village at the foot of the hill
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London Borough of Brent
The London Borough of Brent () is a London boroughs, London borough in north-west London. It borders the boroughs of London Borough of Harrow, Harrow to the north-west, London Borough of Barnet, Barnet to the north-east, London Borough of Camden ...
, England
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South Brent
South Brent is a large village on the southern edge of Dartmoor, England, in the valley of the River Avon. The parish includes the small hamlets of Aish, Harbourneford, Lutton, Brent Mill, and many scattered farmhouses. It is five miles (8&n ...
, Devon, England
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Brent, Ontario
Brent is a community on Cedar Lake (Nipissing District), Cedar Lake on the Petawawa River in northern Algonquin Provincial Park, and is located in Township (Canada)#Ontario, geographic Deacon Township in the Unorganized South Nipissing District, u ...
, a village in Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada
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Brent crater, a meteor crater named after the village of Brent, Ontario
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Brent oilfield
The Brent field was an oil and gas field located in the East Shetland Basin of the North Sea, north-east of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, at the water depth of . The field operated by Shell UK Limited was discovered in 1971 and w ...
, North Sea
In fiction
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Brent (''Planet of the Apes'')
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Corey Brent, fictional character on the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''
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David Brent, fictional character on the BBC television comedy ''The Office''
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Stefan Brent
''Coronation Street'' is a British soap opera first broadcast on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters introduced in 2021, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by series producer Iain MacLeod. The first ch ...
, fictional character on the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''
* Brent Scopes, fictional character from the novel ''
Mount Dragon''
* Brent McHale, fictional character from the animated film ''
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs''
Other uses
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Brent Cross tube station, North-west London, England
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Brent Cross Shopping Center, a mall in Northern London, close to the terminus to the M1 Highway
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Brent Crude, benchmark classification of oil
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Brent goose (''Branta bernicla''), known in North America as brant
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Brent International School
Brent International School is an international co-educational day and boarding school associated with the Episcopal Church in the Philippines. It has campuses in different locations throughout the Philippines: Brent School Manila in Brgy. Mampl ...
, the Philippines
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Brent's method
In numerical analysis, Brent's method is a hybrid root-finding algorithm combining the bisection method, the secant method and inverse quadratic interpolation. It has the reliability of bisection but it can be as quick as some of the less-reliable ...
, a root-finding algorithm
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Brent railway station
Brent railway station was on the South Devon Railway, serving the village of South Brent on the southern edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England.
The line through Brent opened on 5 May 1848 but the station was not ready to open until 15 June 1848.R ...
, South Devon, England
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Brent sidings, railway freight facility in north-west London, England
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Brent Spar, decommissioned oil storage and tanker loading buoy
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National Theatre of Brent
The National Theatre of Brent is a British comedy double act, in the form of a mock two-man theatre troupe. Patrick Barlow plays Desmond Olivier Dingle, the troupe's founder, artistic director and chief executive. The role of his assistant (or a ...
, British comedy double-act
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River Brent, London, England
See also
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Bret (disambiguation) Bret or BRET may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Bret (given name), a personal name, including a list of people and fictional characters
* Bret (surname), a list of people
Other uses
* a regional name for either the brill or the tu ...
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Brett
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