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Brielle Brielle (), also called Den Briel in Dutch and Brill in English, is a town and historic seaport in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland, on the north side of the island of Voorne-Putten, at the mouth of the New Maas. The for ...

(sometimes "Den Briel"), a town in the western Netherlands *

Brill, Buckinghamshire Brill is a village and civil parish in west Buckinghamshire, England, close to the border with Oxfordshire. It is about north-west of Long Crendon and south-east of Bicester. At the 2011 Census, the population of the civil parish was 1,141 ...

, a village in England * Brill, Cornwall, a small village to the west of Constantine, Cornwall, UK *

Brill, Wisconsin Brill is an unincorporated community located in Barron County, Wisconsin, United States. Brill is east of Haugen, in the town of Oak Grove. History Brill was plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to ...

, an unincorporated community, US * Brill,

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, with a population of 355,000. Wuppertal is the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and List of cities in Germany by population, 17th-largest in Germany. It ...

, a quarter and town district, Germany

Fiction

Brill brothers This is a list of characters in the ''Artemis Fowl'' novel series by Eoin Colfer. Overview * A dark grey cell indicates that the character was not in the property or that the character's presence in the property has yet to be announced. * ...

(Mervall and Descant), fictional characters from the Artemis Fowl book series * Brill (''Elfquest''), a fictional character in the comic Elfquest

Scientific concepts

Brill tagger The Brill tagger is an inductive method for part-of-speech tagging. It was described and invented by Eric Brill in his 1993 PhD thesis. It can be summarized as an "error-driven transformation-based tagger". It is: * a form of supervised learning, ...

, an algorithm in artificial intelligence to detect grammatical structures *

Brill–Noether theory In algebraic geometry, Brill–Noether theory, introduced by , is the study of special divisors, certain divisors on a curve that determine more compatible functions than would be predicted. In classical language, special divisors move on the cu ...

, a theory of algebraic geometry *

Brill–Zinsser disease Brill–Zinsser disease is a delayed relapse of epidemic typhus, caused by '' Rickettsia prowazekii''. After a patient contracts epidemic typhus from the fecal matter of an infected louse ('' Pediculus humanus''), the rickettsia can remain late ...

, a type of epidemic typhus which recurs in someone after a long period of dormancy

Companies

Brill Publishers Brill Academic Publishers () is a Dutch international academic publisher of books, academic journals, and Bibliographic database, databases founded in 1683, making it one of the oldest publishing houses in the Netherlands. Founded in the South ...

, a Dutch international academic publisher *

Brill Tramway The Brill Tramway, also known as the Quainton Tramway, Wotton Tramway, Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad and Metropolitan Railway Brill Branch, was a six-mile (10 km) rail line in the Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England. It was privately ...

, a former branch line of the Metropolitan Railway from Quainton Road to Brill *

J. G. Brill Company The J. G. Brill Company manufactured streetcars,Young, Andrew D. (1997). ''Veteran & Vintage Transit'', p. 101. St. Louis: Archway Publishing. interurban coaches, motor buses, trolleybuses and railroad cars in the United States for nearl ...

, a defunct manufacturer of streetcars in North America * USS ''Brill'' (SS-330), a World War II era American Balao class submarine

Other uses

Brill (fish) The brill (''Scophthalmus rhombus'') is a species of flatfish in the turbot family (Scophthalmidae) of the order Pleuronectiformes. Brill can be found in the northeast Atlantic, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, and Mediterranean, primarily in deeper offs ...

, a type of flatfish *

Brill (surname) Brill is a German and English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Artists * John Frederick Brill (died 1942), British World War II soldier and mural artist * Matthijs Brill, and Paul Brill, 16th century Flemish landscape painters ...

, for people who bear the family name Brill *

Brill Building The Brill Building is an office building at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, just north of Times Square and farther uptown from the historic musical Tin Pan Alley neighborhood. The Brill Building hous ...

, a New York City building notable for its influential music industry tenants

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