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Brent (name) Brent is an Old English given name and surname. The place name can be from Celtic languages, Celtic words meaning "holy one" (if it refers to the River Brent), or "high place", literally, "from a steep hill" (if it refers to the villages in Somers ...

, an English given and surname

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;In the United States * Brent, Alabama * Brent, Florida * Brent, Georgia * Brent, Missouri, a ghost town * Brent, Oklahoma ;In the United Kingdom * Brent, Cornwall * Brent Knoll, a hill in Somerset, England * Brent Knoll (village), a village at the foot of the hill * East Brent, another village at the foot of the hill *

London Borough of Brent Brent () is a London boroughs, borough in north-west London, England. It is known for landmarks such as Wembley Stadium, the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London, Swaminarayan Temple and the Kiln Theatre. It also contains the Brent Reservoir, W ...

, England ** Brent (electoral division), Greater London Council * South Brent, Devon, England ;Elsewhere * Brent, Ontario, a village in Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada * Brent crater, a meteor crater named after the village of Brent, Ontario * Brent oilfield, North Sea

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* Brent (''Planet of the Apes'') *

Corey Brent ''Coronation Street'' is a British soap opera first broadcast on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters introduced in 2019, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by series producer Iain MacLeod. The first ch ...

, fictional character on the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' * David Brent, fictional character on the BBC television comedy ''The Office'' * Stefan Brent, fictional character on the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' * Brent Scopes, fictional character from the novel '' Mount Dragon'' * Brent McHale, fictional character from the animated film ''

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'' is a children's book written by Judi Barrett and illustrated by Ron Barrett. It was first published in 1978 by Atheneum Books, followed by a 1982 trade paperback edition from sister company Aladdin Pap ...

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Brent Cross tube station Brent Cross is a London Underground station located on Highfield Avenue in the Golders Green area of north west London. It is a Grade II listed building. The station is on the Edgware branch of the Northern line, between Hendon Central and ...

, North-west London, England * Brent Cross Shopping Center, a mall in Northern London, close to the terminus to the M1 Highway *

Brent Crude Brent Crude may refer to any or all of the components of the Brent Complex, a physically and financially traded oil market based around the North Sea of Northwest Europe; colloquially, Brent Crude usually refers to the price of the ICE (Intercon ...

, benchmark classification of oil *

Brent goose The brant or brent goose (''Branta bernicla'') is a small goose of the genus ''Branta''. There are three subspecies, all of which winter along temperate-zone sea-coasts and breed on the high-Arctic tundra. The Brent oilfield was named after ...

(''Branta bernicla''), known in North America as brant *

Brent International School Brent International School (abbreviation: Brent School or Brent Manila) is an international co-educational, day school associated with the Episcopal Church in the Philippines. It has campuses in different locations throughout the Philippines: ...

, the Philippines *

Brent's method In numerical analysis, Brent's method is a hybrid root-finding algorithm combining the bisection method, the secant method and inverse quadratic interpolation. It has the reliability of bisection but it can be as quick as some of the less-reliab ...

, a root-finding algorithm *

Brent railway station Brent railway station was a stop on the South Devon Railway Company, South Devon Railway; it served the village of South Brent on the southern edge of Dartmoor in Devon, England. History The line through Brent opened on 5 May 1848, but the st ...

, South Devon, England *

Brent sidings Brent sidings was an important marshalling yard and freight facility on the Midland Railway extension to London. History The sidings were situated on both sides of the Midland Main Line between and stations, close to the triangle formed where ...

, railway freight facility in north-west London, England *

Brent Spar Brent Spar, known as Brent "E", was a North Sea oil storage and tanker loading buoy in the Brent oilfield, operated by Shell UK. With the completion of a pipeline connection to the oil terminal at Sullom Voe in Shetland, the storage facil ...

, decommissioned oil storage and tanker loading buoy *

National Theatre of Brent The National Theatre of Brent is a British comedy double act, in the form of a mock two-man theatre troupe. Patrick Barlow plays Desmond Olivier Dingle, the troupe's founder, artistic director and chief executive. The role of his assistant (or a ...

, British comedy double-act *

River Brent The River Brent is a river in west and northwest London, England, and a tributary of the River Thames. in length, it rises in the London Borough of Barnet, Borough of Barnet and flows in a generally south-west direction before joining the Tid ...

, London, England * Steam tug ''Brent'' (built 1946)

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