Vent or vents may refer to:

Science and technology

Biology

*Vent, the

cloaca A cloaca ( ), : cloacae ( or ), or vent, is the rear orifice that serves as the only opening for the digestive (rectum), reproductive, and urinary tracts (if present) of many vertebrate animals. All amphibians, reptiles, birds, cartilagin ...

region of an animal * Vent DNA polymerase, a thermostable DNA polymerase

Geology

* Hydrothermal vent, a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water issues *

Volcano A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most oft ...

, a point where magma emerges from the Earth's surface and becomes lava

Moving gases

* Vent (submarine), a valve on a submarine's ballast tanks * Automatic bleeding valve, a plumbing valve used to automatically release trapped air from a heating system * Drain-waste-vent system or plumbing drainage venting, pipes leading from fixtures to the outdoors * Duct (flow), used to deliver and remove air * Flue, a duct, pipe, or chimney for conveying exhaust gases from a furnace or water heater * Gas venting, a safe vent in the hydrocarbon and chemical industries * Medical ventilator, mechanical breathing machine * Touch hole, a vent on a cannon * Vent shaft or ventilation shaft

People

Vents (musician) Joseph Lardner, better known by the stage name Vents and also known as Vents One, Vents 1 and Vents Uno, is an Australian hip hop artist from Adelaide, South Australia. He has released two albums, 2007's ''Hard to Kill'' and 2011's ''Marked for ...

, Australian hip hop MC * Vents Feldmanis (born 1977), Latvian ice hockey defenceman * Vents Armands Krauklis (born 1964), Latvian politician and musician *''Vent.'', taxonomic abbreviation for Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757–1808), French botanist

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Albums and EPs

* ''Vent'' (album), a 2001 album by Caliban * ''Vent'' (EP), a 2008 release by Sounds of Swami

Songs

* "Vent" (song), by Collective Soul *"The Vent", a song by Big K.R.I.T. from '' Return of 4Eva''

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* Vent (''Mega Man''), a character in ''Mega Man ZX'' * ''Vent'' (radio series), a comedy series produced for BBC Radio 4 in 2006 *''The Vent'', a column in '' The Atlanta Journal-Constitution''

Brands and enterprises

* Vent (imprint), an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing * Ventrilo (or Vent), Internet VoIP chat software

Other uses

* Vent (tailoring), a slit up the back of a jacket or coat