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Bent, Iran Bent () is a city in, and the capital of, Bent District of Nik Shahr County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. It also serves as the administrative center for Bent Rural District. Demographics Populatio ...

, a city in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran *

Bent District Bent District () is in Nik Shahr County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerba ...

, an administrative subdivision of Iran *

Bent, Netherlands Bent is a hamlet in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is located in the municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn Alphen aan den Rijn (; or "Alphen on the Rhine") is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of Sout ...

, a village in the municipality of Rijnwoude, the Netherlands *

Bent County, Colorado Bent County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 5,650. The county seat and only Colorado municipalities, incorporated municipality is Las Animas, Colorado, Las ...

, United States * Bents, Saskatchewan, an unincorporated community in Canada *

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site Bent's Old Fort is a 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 in 1833 to trade with Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho Plains Indians ...

, 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 Arkansa ...

Arts and entertainment

* ''Bent'' (play), a 1979 play by Martin Sherman ** ''Bent'' (1997 film), a 1997 film by Sean Mathias based on the play * ''Bent'' (2018 film) * ''Bent'' (TV series), an NBC romantic television comedy series *

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 * "Bent" (Matchbox Twenty song), 2000 * "Bent" (41 song), 2023 * ''Bent'' (magazine), a UK magazine * ''Bent'' (Ssion album), 2012 * ''Bent'' (Stonefield album), 2019

Science

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-collin ...

, in chemistry *

Bent's rule In chemistry, Bent's rule describes and explains the relationship between the orbital hybridization and the electronegativities of substituents. The rule was stated by Henry A. Bent as follows: Valence bond theory gives a good approximation ...

, about atomic orbital hybridization *

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 , Plants of the World Onlin ...

or bent, the plant genus ''Agrostis''

People

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 ...

(1924–2020), Danish composer *

Bent Flyvbjerg Bent Flyvbjerg is a Danish economic geographer. He is the Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Education and career Flyvbjerg received his Ph.D. in urban geography and planning from Aarhus University, Denmark, ...

(born 1952), Danish economic geographer *

Bent Hegna Bent Hegna (born 10 June 1959 in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Telemark in 1993, and was re-elected on one occasion. On the local level Hegna was a member of Porsgrunn ...

(born 1959), Norwegian politician *

Bent Larsen Jørgen Bent Larsen (4 March 1935 – 9 September 2010) was a Danish chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster and author. Known for his imaginative and unorthodox style of play, he was the second-strongest non-Soviet Union, Soviet player, behind ...

(1935–2010), Danish chess grandmaster *

Bent Mejding Bent Mejding (14 January 1937 – 12 November 2024) was a Danish actor, stage director, and theatre manager. He won a Danish Film Academy Award in 1985 and 2007. He was married to actress Susse Wold. Life and career Mejding had his debut at ...

(born 1937), Danish actor *

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, during t ...

(1929–2021), Danish rabbi

Other uses

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 ornithol ...

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-fram ...

, 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 ...

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