Broad

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Things known as Broad or broads are:

In hydrology:

  • Benacre Broad, isolated broad in Suffolk, England, within The Broads National Park
  • Broad River, disambiguation
  • Malthouse Broad, lake at Ranworth in the Norfolk Broads within the British The Broads National Park
  • Broad Creek, creek in North Carolina
  • The Broads, network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk

In geography:

In other fields:

  • 10BROAD36, obsolete standard for carrying 10 Mbit/s Ethernet signals over standard 75 ohm CATV cable over a 3600 meter range
  • Broad church, Latitudinarian churchmanship in the Church of England
  • Broad Front - Progressive Encounter - New Majority, Uruguayan coalition of political parties and organizations
  • Broad gauge, rail gauge greater than the standard gauge of 4'8.5"
  • Broad pennant, swallow-tailed tapering flag flown from the masthead of a ship to indicate the presence of a commodore on board
  • Charlie Dunbar Broad, English philosopher known for his thorough and objective analysis in works such as Scientific Thought (1930) and Examination of McTaggart's Philosophy (1933)
  • Broad is a slang term for a woman which may be considered derogatory.
  • Broadband
  • Broad Institute a genomic research institute funded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad.
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