Brill (disambiguation)

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Placename:

  • Brill, Buckinghamshire, England is a village known for a nearby palace built by King Edward the Confessor.
  • Brill is a small village to the west of Constantine in the Cornish District of Kerrier, UK.
  • Brielle, The Netherlands (sometimes "Den Briel"), a town in the western Netherlands.

Brill may also refer to:

  • Brill (fish), a type of flatfish.
  • Brill (surname), for people who bear the family name Brill.
  • Brill Tramway, a former branch line of the Metropolitan Railway from Quainton Road to Brill.
  • Brill Publishers, a Dutch international academic publisher with offices in Leiden, The Netherlands and Boston, MA, USA.
  • Brill Tagger, an algorithm in artificial intelligence to detect grammatical structures.
  • The Brill Building, a New York City building notable music industry tenants.
  • J. G. Brill and Company, a defunct manufacturer of streetcars in North America.
  • Brill-Zinsser disease, a type of epidemic typhus which recurs in someone after a long period of dormancy.
  • Brill-Noether theory, a theorem of algebraic geometry.
  • Brill (Elfquest), a fictional character in the comic Elfquest.
  • Slang in the United Kingdom during the 80s and 90s (an abbreviated form of "brilliant") that means "exciting" or "interesting," similar to "cool" or "sweet" in the United States and Canada.
  • USS Brill (SS-330), a World War II era American Balao class submarine.
  • Brill Media Tower, a radio tower.

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