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:
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Oil spill
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Chemical spill
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Data spill
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Leadership spill
In Australian politics, a leadership spill (or simply spill) is a colloquialism referring to 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 (l ...
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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 results to a limited number of processor registers.
Register allocation can happen over a basic block (''local register allocatio ...
*Thin sticks of wood or tightly rolled paper tapers, used for transferring fire, and stored in a
spill vase
*SPILL – an acronym for St Pancras International Low Level, the Thameslink platforms at
St Pancras railway station in London
As a proper name
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Thomas Spilsbury, soccer player nicknamed ''Spill''
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Spill (band), a British dance duo
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Spill.com, a movie review website
People with the surname
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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 Pa ...
(1832–1887), English entrepreneur
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Steve Spill (born 1955), American magician
Literature
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Spill. En damroman'', a 2010 Swedish novel by Sigrid Combüchen
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Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity'', a 2017 book of prose and poetry by Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
See also
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Spilling water for luck
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Spilling salt
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