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Brill

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Brill may refer to:

Places

  • Brielle (sometimes "Den Briel"), a town in the western Netherlands
  • Brill, Buckinghamshire, a village in England
  • Brill, Cornwall, a small village to the west of Constantine, Cornwall, UK
  • Brill, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community, US

Literature

  • Brill brothers (Mervall and Descant), fictional characters from the Artemis Fowl book series
  • Brill (Elfquest), a fictional character in the comic Elfquest
  • Brill Publishers, a Dutch international academic publisher

Science and technology

  • Brill Tagger, an algorithm in artificial intelligence to detect grammatical structures
  • Brill–Noether theory, a theory of algebraic geometry
  • Brill–Zinsser disease, a type of epidemic typhus which recurs in someone after a long period of dormancy

Transport

  • Brill Tramway, a former branch line of the Metropolitan Railway from Quainton Road to Brill
  • J. G. Brill Company, a defunct manufacturer of streetcars in North America
  • USS Brill (SS-330), a World War II era American Balao class submarine

Other uses

See also

  • Bril, a surname
  • Bril (disambiguation)
  • Brühl (disambiguation)
  • Brüll, a surname
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