Fill may refer to: * Fill dirt, soil added to an area **

Fill (archaeology) In archaeology a fill is the material that has accumulated or has been deposited into a cut feature such as ditch or pit of some kind of a later date than the feature itself. Fills are an important part of the archaeological record as their forma ...

, material accumulated in a feature such as a ditch or pit ** Material used in

cut and fill In earthmoving, cut and fill is the process of constructing a railway, road or canal whereby the amount of material from cuts roughly matches the amount of fill needed to make nearby embankments to minimize the amount of construction labor. ...

to elevate a surface * Fill character, added in data transmission to consume time * Fill device, an electronic module used in cryptography *

Fill (music) In popular music, a fill is a short musical passage, riff, or rhythmic sound which helps to sustain the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody. "The terms riff and fill are sometimes used interchangeably by musici ...

, a short segment of instrumental music * Filling yarn, or

weft In the manufacture of cloth, warp and weft are the two basic components in weaving to transform thread (yarn), thread and yarn into textile fabrics. The vertical ''warp'' yarns are held stationary in tension on a loom (frame) while the horizo ...

, a component of fabric weaving *

Fill flash Fill flash is a photographic technique used to brighten deep shadow areas, typically outdoors on sunny days, though the technique is useful any time the background is significantly brighter than the subject of the photograph, particularly in ba ...

, a photography technique *

Fill light In television, film, stage, or photographic lighting, a fill light (often simply fill) may be used to reduce the contrast of a scene to match the dynamic range of the recording media and record the same amount of detail typically seen by eye in ...

, used to reduce the contrast of a photographed, recorded, or staged scene * Flood fill, or fill pattern, an algorithm to add color or texture in computer graphics * Fill power, a measure of the "fluffiness" of a down product

People with the surname

* Martino Fill (born 1939), Italian alpine skier *

Peter Fill Peter Fill (born 12 November 1982) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from northern Italy. Born in Brixen, South Tyrol, he formerly competed in all disciplines, and later focused on the speed events of downhill, super-G, and combined. Fil ...

(born 1982), Italian alpine ski racer * Shannon Fill (born 1971), American TV actress

People with the surname

See also