A spill occurs when the contents of something, usually in liquid form, are emptied out onto a surface, person or clothes, often unintentionally. Spill may also refer to: *

Oil spill An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially the marine ecosystem, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution. The term is usually given to marine oil spills, where oil is released into th ...

Chemical spill A chemical accident is the unintentional release of one or more hazardous chemicals, which could harm human health and the environment. Such events include fires, explosions, and release of toxic materials that may cause people illness, injury, or ...

Data spill A data breach, also known as data leakage, is "the unauthorized exposure, disclosure, or loss of personal information". Attackers have a variety of motives, from financial gain to hacktivism, political activism, political repression, and espiona ...

Leadership spill In Australian politics, a leadership spill (or simply a spill) is a declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant and open for contest. A spill may involve all or some of the leadership positions (leader and deputy leader in ...

Spill (audio) Spill (also known as bleed and leakage) is the occurrence in sound recording (particularly in close miking) and live sound mixing whereby sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended. Spill is usually seen ...

, where audio from one source is picked up by a microphone intended for a different source *Variable spilling, a side effect of

register allocation In compiler optimization, register allocation is the process of assigning local automatic variables and Expression (computer science), expression results to a limited number of processor registers. Register allocation can happen over a basic bloc ...

*Thin sticks of wood or tightly rolled paper tapers, used for transferring fire, and stored in a

spill vase A spill occurs when the contents of something, usually in liquid form, are emptied out onto a surface, person or clothes, often unintentionally. Spill may also refer to: *Oil spill *Chemical spill *Data spill *Leadership spill *Spill (audio), whe ...

*SPILL – an acronym for St Pancras International Low Level, the Thameslink platforms at

St Pancras railway station St Pancras railway station (), officially known since 2007 as London St Pancras International, is a major central London railway terminus on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden. It is the terminus for Eurostar services from Belgium, F ...

in London

As a proper name

* Thomas Spilsbury, soccer player nicknamed ''Spill'' * Spill (band), a British dance duo * Spill.com, a movie review website

People with the surname

Daniel Spill Daniel Spill (11 February 1832 – 1887) was born in Winterbourne, Gloucestershire, England. He became a rubber and an early thermoplastics manufacturer. For over 20 years Spill had pursued the goal of making a successful business from Alexander Par ...

(1832–1887), English entrepreneur *

Steve Spill Steve Spill (born Steven Spillman; San Francisco, California; 3 January 1955) is an American magician and founder of Magicopolis, a 150-seat theater that opened in 1998 in Santa Monica, California, where Spill performs sleight-of-hand and large- ...

(born 1955), American magician

Literature

*'' Spill. En damroman'', a 2010 Swedish novel by Sigrid Combüchen *'' Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity'', a 2017 book of prose and poetry by Alexis Pauline Gumbs.

As a proper name

People with the surname

Literature

See also