Compton may refer to:
Places
Canada
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Compton (electoral district)
Compton (also known as Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1949, and again from 1968 to 1997.
History
Compton was created by th ...
, a former Quebec federal electoral district
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Compton (provincial electoral district), a former Quebec provincial electoral district now part of Mégantic-Compton
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Compton, Quebec
Compton is a municipality in Coaticook Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada.
Demographics
Population
Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
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Compton County, Quebec
Compton County is an historical county in southeastern Quebec, Canada on the western flanks of the Appalachian Mountains on the Canada–United States border. It is in the Estrie (Eastern Townships) region of the province and was named in 1793 aft ...
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Compton Creek
Compton Creek is a major tributary of the Los Angeles River in and surrounding Compton in Los Angeles County, California. The stream drains a watershed of . and is the last major tributary to enter the Los Angeles River before it reaches the P ...
, a tributary of the Adam River on Vancouver Island, British Columbia
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Compton Island
Compton Island is an island in the Queen Charlotte Strait-Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located in Blackfish Sound to the east of Port McNeill All of Compton Island and three small islands offshore compr ...
, in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of British Columbia
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Compton Névé The Compton Névé is a névé in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, located southeast of the Homathko Icefield and Mount Gilbert (British Columbia), Mount Gilbert and to the south of the Bishop River ...
, a névé (icefield) in the Pacific Ranges, British Columbia
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Compton Glacier
Compton Glacier is a glacier, long, flowing northeast from the lower slopes of the Big Ben massif to the northeast side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. Its terminus is located at Compton Lagoon, between Gilchrist Beach and Fairchi ...
, a glacier in the Compton Névé, Pacific Ranges, British Columbia
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Compton Mountain
Compton may refer to:
Places
Canada
* Compton (electoral district), a former Quebec federal electoral district
* Compton (provincial electoral district), a former Quebec provincial electoral district now part of Mégantic-Compton
* Compton, Que ...
, a mountain in the Compton Névé,
Pacific Ranges
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, British Columbia
England
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Compton, Berkshire
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Compton, Derbyshire, a
location
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Compton, Plymouth
Compton or Compton Gifford is a suburb of Plymouth in England.
Once a small village, it was developed in the 1930s and now lies between the suburbs of Peverell Mannamead and Efford. There are two parts, Higher and Lower Compton named after ...
, Devon
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Compton, South Hams, a
location
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Compton, Test Valley, a
location
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Compton, Hampshire, in Winchester district
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Compton, Staffordshire, a
location
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Compton, Guildford, Surrey
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Compton, Waverley, Surrey (near Farnham)
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Compton, West Sussex
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Compton, West Yorkshire
Collingham is a village and civil parish south-west of Wetherby in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 2,991.
It sits in the Harewood ward of L ...
, a former village
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Compton, Wiltshire
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Compton, Wolverhampton
Compton is a suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. It is located to the west of Wolverhampton city centre on the A454, within the Tettenhall Wightwick ward.
History
Compton sits nestled below the ridge that stretches south west f ...
, West Midlands
United States
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Compton, Arkansas
Compton is an unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas, United States. Compton is located on Arkansas Highway 43, southwest of Harrison. Osage Creek flows past the west side of the community.''Arkansas Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 2n ...
, an unincorporated community
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Compton, California
Compton is a city in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated south of downtown Los Angeles. Compton is one of the oldest cities in the county and, on May 11, 1888, was the eighth city in Los Angeles County to incorporat ...
, a city south-southeast of downtown Los Angeles
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Compton, Illinois
Compton is a village in Brooklyn Township, Lee County, Illinois, United States. The population was 303 at the 2010 census, down from 347 in 2000.
History
A post office at the site of Compton opened on May 18, 1841; it was named Melugin Grove af ...
, a village
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Compton, Maryland
Compton is an unincorporated community near Leonardtown in St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States. The St. Francis Xavier Church and Newtown Manor House Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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, an unincorporated community
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Compton, Virginia
Compton is an unincorporated community in Page County, in the U.S. state of Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic ...
, an unincorporated community
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Compton Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
Compton Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 799 at the 2000 census.
Compton Township was organized in 1875, and named for James Compton, an early settler.
Geography
According to the United S ...
Music
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''Compton'' (album), a 2015 album by Dr. Dre
* "Compton", a song by Kendrick Lamar from ''
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
''Good Kid, M.A.A.D City'' (stylized as ''good kid, m.A.A.d city'') is the second studio album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. It was released on October 22, 2012, through Top Dawg Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Record ...
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* "Compton", a song by The Game from ''
Doctor's Advocate''
Science and technology
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Compton (crater)
Compton is a prominent lunar impact crater that is located in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the east of the Mare Humboldtianum, and southwest of the walled plain Schwarzschild. To the southeast of Compton is th ...
, a lunar crater
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Compton (software)
Picom is a lightweight standalone compositor created for the X Window System. It is a fork of compton, created because compton wasn't being actively maintained; compton is, in turn, a fork of xcompmgr-dana, forked from xcompmgr.
Configuration
P ...
, an X composite manager; third-degree fork of Xcompmgr
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Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, a space observatory operational in Earth orbit from 1991 to 2000
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Compton Limestone
The Compton Limestone is a Formation (geology), geologic formation in southwest Missouri. It preserves brachiopod and echinoderm fossils of the Mississippian (geology), Mississippian Period (geology), subperiod.The Stratigraphic Succession in Mis ...
, a geologic unit in Missouri
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Compton scattering, an effect observed when photons interact with electrons
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Compton wavelength, a quantum mechanical property of a particle
Other uses
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Compton (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
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Compton (Trappe, Maryland), a home
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Compton Petroleum, a petroleum exploration company based in Canada
See also
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