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
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Brent, Florida
Brent is a census-designated place (CDP) in Escambia County, Florida, United States. The population was 21,804 at the 2010 census. It is a principal city of the Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent Metropolitan Statistical Area. The community is named af ...
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Brent, Georgia
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Brent, Missouri, a ghost town
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Brent, Oklahoma
Brent is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, United States, south of Sallisaw. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 504 at the 2000 census.
The post office o ...
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Brent, Cornwall
Brent is a housing estate in Cornwall, England, UK. It is situated east of the village of Polperro, within the civil parish of Polperro and west of the neighbouring town of Looe
Looe (; kw, Logh, ) is a coastal town and civil parish in s ...
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Brent Knoll
Brent Knoll is a hill on the Somerset Levels, in Somerset, England. It is located roughly halfway between Weston-super-Mare and Bridgwater, from the Bristol Channel coast at Burnham-on-Sea. At the foot of the hill are two villages East Brent a ...
, a hill in Somerset, England
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Brent Knoll (village)
Brent Knoll, formerly known as South Brent, is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, which lies on the southern edge of Brent Knoll – a hill with a height of 137 metres (450 ft) that dominates the low surrounding landscape ...
, 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 sou ...
, 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, Devon, England
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Brent, Ontario, a village in Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada
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Brent crater
The Brent crater is an impact crater in both the geographic township of Deacon, Unorganized South Nipissing District and the municipal township of Papineau-Cameron in Nipissing District, northeastern Ontario, Canada, located north of Cedar Lake i ...
, a meteor crater named after the village of Brent, Ontario
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Brent oilfield, North Sea
In fiction
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Brent (''Planet of the Apes'')
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Corey Brent
'' Coronation Street'' is a British soap opera first broadcast on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters introduced in 2019, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by series producer Iain MacLeod. The first c ...
, fictional character on the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''
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David Brent
David Brent is a fictional character in the BBC television mockumentary ''The Office'', portrayed by the show's co-creator, co-writer and co-director Ricky Gervais. Brent is a white-collar office middle-manager and the principal character of th ...
, fictional character on the BBC television comedy ''The Office''
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Stefan Brent, fictional character on the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''
* Brent Scopes, fictional character from the novel ''
Mount Dragon
''Mount Dragon'' is a 1996 techno-thriller novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The action primarily follows Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca, two researchers employed by the corporation GeneDyne and stationed at the Mount Dragon faci ...
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* Brent McHale, fictional character from the animated film ''
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' is a children's book written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett. It was first published in 1978 by Atheneum Books, followed by a 1982 trade paperback edition from sister company Aladdin Paperb ...
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Other uses
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Brent Cross tube station
Brent Cross is a London Underground station located on Highfield Avenue in the Golders Green area of north west London. The station is a Grade II listed building.
The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line, between Hendon Cent ...
, 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
Brent Crude may refer to any or all of the components of the Brent Complex, a physically and financially traded oil market based around the North Sea of Northwest Europe; colloquially, Brent Crude usually refers to the price of the ICE (Intercon ...
, benchmark classification of oil
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Brent goose
The brant or brent goose (''Branta bernicla'') is a small goose of the genus '' Branta''. There are three subspecies, all of which winter along temperate-zone sea-coasts and breed on the high-Arctic tundra.
The Brent oilfield was named after ...
(''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
Brent sidings was an important marshalling yard and freight facility on the Midland Railway extension to London.
History
The sidings were situated on both sides of the Midland Main Line between and stations, close to the triangle formed where ...
, railway freight facility in north-west London, England
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Brent Spar
Brent Spar, or Brent E, was a North Sea oil storage and tanker loading buoy in the Brent oilfield, operated by Shell UK. With the completion of a pipeline connection to the oil terminal at Sullom Voe in Shetland, the storage facility had cont ...
, 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
The River Brent is a river in west and northwest London, England, and a tributary of the River Thames. in length, it rises in the Borough of Barnet and flows in a generally south-west direction before joining the Tideway stretch of the Thame ...
, London, England
See also
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Bret (disambiguation)
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Brett
Brett derives from a Middle English surname meaning "Briton" or "Breton", referring to the Celtic people of Britain and Brittany, France. Brette can be a feminine name.
People with the surname
* Adrian Brett (born 1945) English flutist and writer ...
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