Kell

Kell

The name Kell has a number of meanings:

Places

* Kell (volcano), an extinct stratovolcano in Kamchatka Krai, Russia
* Kell, Illinois, a village in the United States
* Kell am See, a village and a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

People

* Arthur Kell, a jazz bassist and composer from Brooklyn, New York [http://www.arthurkell.com/]
* George Kell, a third baseman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983
* John McIntosh Kell, Confederate States Navy (1823-1900), Executive Officer of CSS "Alabama"
* Joseph Kell, a pseudonym used by Anthony Burgess for his novels "Inside Mr. Enderby" and One Hand Clapping
* Joseph Kell, a Canadian television actor [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445484/]
* Raymond D. Kell, a television researcher at RCA
* Reginald Kell, a British clarinetist
* Richard Kell, an English footballer
* Vernon Kell, the founder and first director general of the British Security Service, otherwise known as MI5

Fictional characters

*A character in the online comic strip Kevin and Kell
*Jarmen Kell, a mercenary for the Global Liberation Army in the video game "Command and Conquer: Generals"
*The Kell dragon, a creature in the "Star Wars" universe
*Kell Tainer, a character in the "Star Wars" Expanded Universe
*Kell-El, the "real" name of Superman X, a character in the television series Legion of Super Heroes.

Other

*The Kell antigen system, a group of antigens on the human red blood cell surface, peptides found within the Kell protein
*The Kell calculus, a family of distributed process calculi based on the "π"-calculus, used to study component-based distributed programming [http://sardes.inrialpes.fr/programming-languages/kell-calculus/the-kell-calculus.html]
*The Kell factor, a parameter used to determine the effective resolution of a discrete display device
*Kell High School, a high school in Marietta, Georgia
*"The Seeress of Kell", a novel in "The Malloreon" series by David Eddings
* A kiln, particularly an oast house kiln. Kell is a Kentish dialect word for kiln.

ee also

* Kells
* Kelly


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  • Kell — bezeichnet das Kell System bei den menschlichen Blutgruppen den Luftkurort Kell am See im Landkreis Trier Saarburg, Rheinland Pfalz die Verbandsgemeinde Kell am See in Rheinland Pfalz den Stadtteil Kell (Andernach) von Andernach im Landkreis… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Kell — kel adj of, relating to, or being a group of allelic red blood cell antigens of which some are important causes of transfusion reactions and some forms of erythroblastosis fetalis <Kell blood group system> <Kell blood typing> Kell… …   Medical dictionary

  • Kell — Kell, n. [Cf. {Caul}.] 1. The caul; that which covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I ll have him cut to the kell. Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] 2. The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Kell — Kell, IL U.S. village in Illinois Population (2000): 231 Housing Units (2000): 89 Land area (2000): 1.009902 sq. miles (2.615633 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.009902 sq. miles (2.615633 sq.… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Kell, IL — U.S. village in Illinois Population (2000): 231 Housing Units (2000): 89 Land area (2000): 1.009902 sq. miles (2.615633 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.009902 sq. miles (2.615633 sq. km) FIPS… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Kell — Kell, n. A kiln. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Kell — Kell, n. [A modification of kale.] A sort of pottage; kale. See {Kale}, 2. Ainsworth. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Kell [1] — Kell, Dorf im Kreise Mayen des Regierungsbezirks Coblenz der preußischen Rheinprovinz; Sauerquelle Tillerborn; 420 Ew …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Kell [2] — Kell, Julius, geb. 1813 in Pappendorf bei Haynichen; vormals Rector zu Kirchberg im Sächsischen Erzgebirge, st. 1849 in Dresden als Landtagsdeputirter. Verfasser verschiedener Schul u. Erziehungsschriften, Redacteur der Sächsischen Schulzeitung u …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Kell — This very interesting surname is English but of pre 7th century Scandinavian Viking origins. Recorded as Kell, Kelle, Kells, and Chell, it derives from the Norse word kel , a shorten form of the male name Ketill. This has the very unusual meaning …   Surnames reference

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