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Bi or bi may refer to:
- Bi (jade)Bi (jade)The bi is a form of circular jade artifact from ancient China. The earliest bi were produced in the Neolithic period, particularly by the Liangzhu culture . Later examples date mainly from the Shang, Zhou and Han dynasties. They were also made in glass.-Description:A bi is a flat jade disc with a...
, a type of jade disc produced in ancient China - "Bi" (song)Bi (song)"Bi" is a song by funk metal band Living Colour and the fourth single from their third studio album, Stain. The song's title and its lyrics directly refer to bisexuality.-Tracklisting:# "Bi " - 3:42# "Bi" - 4:34# "Middle Man " - 4:01...
, a 1993 song by Living Colour - Bi (album)Bi (album)-Track listing:#Hey#Bi-#I Can See You Fade#Zaira#No Sin No Shame #An Endless Rewind#Let's Get Rolling #Private Flight#Time #116.99#A Moment To Say Goodbye...
, a 2008 album by Astyplaz - Bi-, a number prefix denoting two
- Billon (alloy)Billon (alloy)Billon is an alloy of a precious metal with a majority base metal content . It is used chiefly for making coins, medals, and token coins.The word comes from the French bille....
, an alloy of less than 50% silver - BisexualityBisexualityBisexuality is sexual behavior or an orientation involving physical or romantic attraction to both males and females, especially with regard to men and women. It is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation, along with a heterosexual and a homosexual orientation, all a part of the...
, a sexual orientation - Bipolar (disambiguation), a term used in several sciences and technologies
- 비 or Rain, South Korean entertainer
- Ы or yery, a Cyrillic letter
Code or symbol
- "bi", the ISO 639 alpha-2 language code for the Bislama languageBislama languageBislama is a creole language, one of the official languages of Vanuatu. It is the first language of many of the "Urban ni-Vanuatu" , and the second language of much of the rest of the country's residents...
- "Bi", the chemical symbol for bismuthBismuthBismuth is a chemical element with symbol Bi and atomic number 83. Bismuth, a trivalent poor metal, chemically resembles arsenic and antimony. Elemental bismuth may occur naturally uncombined, although its sulfide and oxide form important commercial ores. The free element is 86% as dense as lead...
- "Bi", the Biot numberBiot numberThe Biot number is a dimensionless number used in non-steady-state heat transfer calculations. It is named after the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot , and gives a simple index of the ratio of the heat transfer resistances inside of and at the surface of a body...
, a dimensionless number in physics - .bi.bi.bi is the Internet country code top-level domain for Burundi. It is administered by the Burundi National Center of Information Technology....
, the Internet top-level domain for Burundi - "bi", the World Meteorological Organization and ISO 3166-1 country code for BurundiBurundiBurundi , officially the Republic of Burundi , is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Its capital is Bujumbura...
- "BI", the IATA airline code for Royal Brunei Airlines
Acronyms
- BihacBihacBihać is a city and municipality on the river Una in the north-western part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Bosanska Krajina region. Bihać is located in the Una-Sana Canton in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.-History:...
, a city in Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the... - Batteries IncludedBatteries Included (company)Batteries Included was a computer software and hardware company based in the Toronto area. It was well known in the 1980s for its popular PaperClip word processor, which was available for Atari and Commodore microcomputers....
, a former computer softwareComputer softwareComputer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....
and hardwareComputer hardwarePersonal computer hardware are component devices which are typically installed into or peripheral to a computer case to create a personal computer upon which system software is installed including a firmware interface such as a BIOS and an operating system which supports application software that...
company based in the TorontoTorontoToronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
area - Bank IndonesiaBank IndonesiaBank Indonesia is the central bank of The Republic of Indonesia. Bank Indonesia is currently governed by Darmin Nasution, former interim governor. The last governor before the interim phase, Boediono, resigned due to his vice presidential candidacy in the Indonesian presidential election...
, the national bank of Indonesia - Batman Incorporated, an organization in DC comics lead by Bruce Wayne.
- Bayesian inferenceBayesian inferenceIn statistics, Bayesian inference is a method of statistical inference. It is often used in science and engineering to determine model parameters, make predictions about unknown variables, and to perform model selection...
, in statistics - Bear Island (disambiguation)
- Bilhete de identidade (disambiguation)Bilhete de identidade (disambiguation)Bilhete de Identidade may refer to:*Bilhete de Identidade de Residente *Bilhete de identidade *Bilhete de Identidade...
, the common abbreviation for the names of the national ID cards of Portugal and Mozambique - BioShock InfiniteBioShock InfiniteBioShock Infinite is an upcoming first-person shooter video game, and the third game in the BioShock series. Previously known as "Project Icarus", it is being developed by Irrational Games for a 2012 release on the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms...
, a 2012 first-person shooter video game - Bishop Ireton High SchoolBishop Ireton High SchoolBishop Ireton High School is a Roman Catholic High School located in Alexandria, Virginia. The school was founded in 1964 by the Oblates of St. Francis DeSales, an order of Catholic priests sometimes called Salesians, and originally admitted only male students...
, a Roman Catholic high school in Alexandria, Virginia - Block IslandBlock IslandBlock Island is part of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is located in the Atlantic Ocean approximately south of the coast of Rhode Island, east of Montauk Point on Long Island, and is separated from the Rhode Island mainland by Block Island Sound. The United States Census Bureau defines Block...
, in Rhode Island - Boehringer Ingelheim, a German pharmaceutical company
- Braniff International AirwaysBraniff International AirwaysBraniff International Airways was an American airline that operated from 1928 until 1982, primarily in the midwestern and southwestern U.S., South America, Panama, and in its later years also Asia and Europe...
, a now-defunct large air passenger service - Breidbart IndexBreidbart IndexThe Breidbart Index, developed by Seth Breidbart, is the most significant cancel index in Usenet.A cancel index measures the dissemination intensity of substantively identical articles. If the index exceeds a threshold the articles are called newsgroup spam...
, measure of severity of Usenet newsgroup spam - British Invisibles, a British trade organisation
- Burning IndexBurning IndexBurning Index is a number used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to describe the potential amount of effort needed to contain a single fire in a particular fuel type within a rating area...
, A number relating to the potential amount of effort needed to contain a single fire in a particular fuel type within a rating area derived from the NFDRS - Business informaticsBusiness informaticsBusiness informatics or organizational informatics is a discipline combining information technology , informatics and management concepts. The BI discipline was created in Germany, from the concept of "Wirtschaftsinformatik"...
, the combined discipline of information technology and management - Business intelligenceBusiness intelligenceBusiness intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes....
, in information technology, the discipline of dealing and analysing business-related information - Bedriftsøkonomisk Institutt, BI Norwegian Business School
- Rome: Total War: Barbarian InvasionRome: Total War: Barbarian InvasionBarbarian Invasion is the first expansion for the personal computer game Rome: Total War which takes the action forward to the period of the decline of the Western Roman Empire. The Rome Total War Gold Edition includes both the original game as well as the Barbarian Invasion expansion pack. The...
, a 2005 expansion pack in the Rome: Total War computer game