Dent
Appearance
Dent may refer to:
People
[edit]- Dent (surname)
- Dent May (active 2007), American musician
- Dent Mowrey (1888–1960), American composer, musician and music teacher
- Dent Oliver (1918–1973), international speedway rider
Places
[edit]France
[edit]- Dent d'Oche, Haute-Savoie
- Dent de Burgin, Savoie
- Dent Parrachée, Savoie
- Denting, Moselle
Switzerland
[edit]- Dent Blanche, a mountain in the Pennine Alps
- Dent d'Hérens (shared with Italy), a mountain in the Pennine Alps
- Dent de Lys, a mountain in the Bernese Alps (Swiss Prealps)
- Dents du Midi, a multi-summited mountain situated in the Chablais Alps
United Kingdom
[edit]- Dent (fell), near England's Lake District in Cleator Moor, Copeland, Cumbria
- Dent, South Lakeland, a village near Sedbergh in Cumbria, formerly in Yorkshire
- Dent Bank, a small village in County Durham
- Dent Fault, in northern England
- Dent Group, a group of Upper Ordovician sedimentary and volcanic rocks in northwest England
United States
[edit]- Dent, Idaho
- Dent, Minnesota
- Dent, Missouri
- Dent, Ohio
- Dent, West Virginia
- Dent Bridge, in north central Idaho
- Dent County, Missouri
- Dent site, a Clovis culture site near Milliken, Colorado
- Fort Dent
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- Dent (Pokémon), the Japanese name for a gym leader in Pokémon Black and White, named Cilan in English
- Dent (Pokémon anime), the Japanese name for a main character in the Pokémon: Black & White anime series, named Cilan in English
- Arthur Dent, protagonist of the science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face, a DC comics fictional villain
Companies
[edit]- Dent (clocks and watches), the manufacturer of London's Big Ben
- Dent & Co., a major trading company in Hong Kong's early colonial days
- Dents, a British leather goods company founded in 1777
- J. M. Dent & Sons, a British publishing company founded by J. M. Dent in 1888
Other uses
[edit]- Deformation (physics), change in the shape or size of an object.
- Dent (conference), an annual leadership conference in Sun Valley, Idaho
- Dent Corn, a variety of maize with a high soft starch content
- USS Dent (DD-116), a United States Navy ship
- Dent (band), experimental metal band from Boston, Massachusetts