Gill (disambiguation)
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A gill
Gill
A gill is a respiratory organ found in many aquatic organisms that extracts dissolved oxygen from water, afterward excreting carbon dioxide. The gills of some species such as hermit crabs have adapted to allow respiration on land provided they are kept moist...

is an aquatic respiratory organ.

Gill may also refer to:

Geography

Armenia
  • Jil, Armenia
    Jil, Armenia
    Jil is a village in the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia founded in the 12th century. 2 km north of the village is the Dashti-ler fort....


India
  • Gill, Ludhiana
    Gill, Ludhiana
    Gill pind is a large village in Ludhiana district in the Indian state of Punjab.The population was 15,062 at the 2001 Indian census.- Geography :Gill pind is situated on Ludhiana to Maler Kotla Road....

    , India

United States
  • Gill, Colorado
    Gill, Colorado
    Gill is an unincorporated town and a U.S. Post Office in Weld County, Colorado, United States. The Gill Post Office has the ZIP Code 80624....

    , United States
  • Gill, Massachusetts
    Gill, Massachusetts
    Gill is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA. The population was 1,363 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area...

    , United States
  • Gill, Texas
    Gill, Texas
    Gill is a rural unincorporated community in south central Harrison County, Texas, United States. It is six miles south of the county seat, Marshall, on U.S. Route 59.-External links:...

    , United States
  • Gills, Virginia
    Gills, Virginia
    Gills is an unincorporated community located in Amelia County, in the U.S. state of Virginia....

    , United States

United Kingdom
  • Gill, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
  • Gills, Caithness
    Gills, Caithness
    Galltair is a remote coastal, scattered crofting township and former fishing village, overlooking Gills Bay and consists of Upper Gills to the south and the main township on the coast and is situated on the north coast of Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of...

  • Rowlands Gill
    Rowlands Gill
    Rowlands Gill is a village situated along the A694, between Winlaton Mill and Blackhall Mill, on the north bank of the River Derwent, Tyne and Wear, England. With the coming of the Derwent Valley Railway in 1867, Rowlands Gill became both a coal mining village, and during the early part of the...


Other uses

  • Gill (name)
    Gill (name)
    - Gill as a given name :- Europe :* English: From a short form of the personal names such as "Giles", "Julian", "William", "Gilbert" or "Gillian". In theory, the name would have a soft initial when derived from the first two of these, and a hard one when from 'William'...

    , a given name or surname
  • Gill (clan)
    Gill (clan)
    Gill is a gotra/surname of the Jat ethnicity found in Punjab. Though, to westerners, Gill seems like a familiar given name , the Gill surname does not have the same etymological origins. "Gill" stands out to be one of the most popular surnames of the Jat race, with population of Gills being resided...

    , a surname in India
  • Gill (lunar crater)
    Gill (lunar crater)
    Gill is a lunar crater that is located near the southeastern limb of the Moon. Due to its proximity to the edge of the Moon as seen from the Earth, this crater is viewed nearly from the side and it can become hidden from sight due to libration. The crater lies to the southwest of the irregular Mare...

    , a location on the moon
  • Gill (unit)
    Gill (unit)
    The gill is a unit of measurement for volume equal to a quarter of a pint. It is no longer in common use, except in regard to the volume of alcoholic spirits measures but it is also kept alive by the occasional reference, such as in the cumulative song, "The Barley Mow".Imperial gillUnited States...

    , a unit of volume
  • Gill (stream)
    Gill (stream)
    Ghyll or Gill is used for a stream or narrow valley in the North of England and other parts of the United Kingdom. The word originates from the Old Norse Gil...

    , a type of waterway
  • Gill (automobile), a British microcar
  • Lamella (mycology), a papery rib under a mushroom cap


Gill may also refer to:
  • A webcomic by Norm Feuti
    Norm Feuti
    Norm Feuti is an American cartoonist and author best known for his nationally syndicated comic strip Retail.-Retail:Having worked in retail for more than 15 years, Norm Feuti started working on the daily comic strip Retail which was eventually launched on January 1, 2006, by the newspaper syndicate...

  • A character in the video game series Street Fighter
  • A character in the animated series Kim Possible
  • A vector-image program, a fork of which became Sodipodi
    Sodipodi
    Sodipodi is an open source vector graphics editor, discontinued in 2004, which is the predecessor to Inkscape.-Development:Sodipodi started as a fork of Gill, a vector-graphics program written by Raph Levien. The main author is Lauris Kaplinski, and several other people have contributed to the...

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