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BigHat Biosciences
BigHat Biosciences is a San Mateo, California biotechnology company, founded in 2019 by Mark DePristo and Peyton Greenside, that combines machine learning with an automated wet lab to design antibody therapeutics.
Bighorn sheep
Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), wild sheep of western North America from Canada to Mexico, named for rams' large curled horns. Largest wild sheep in North America; declined from about 2 million to 20,000 by 1940, now about 80,000 in the US, limited chiefly by pneumonia from domestic sheep.
Bight
Bight: a long, gradual bend in a coastline forming a large open bay (Southern California Bight, New York Bight, Great Australian Bight, Bight of Benin); also the loop of a rope in seamanship, from Old English byht.
Bight Drainages
Bight Drainages is a West African freshwater ecoregion of coastal rivers draining into the Gulf of Guinea, spanning Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria, with about 246 recorded fish species.
Bight of Benin
The Bight of Benin, or Bay of Benin, is a broad bay in the Gulf of Guinea between the Volta and Niger deltas, fronting Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria.
Bight of Biafra
The Bight of Biafra, officially the Bight of Bonny since 1975, is the easternmost bight of the Gulf of Guinea between the Niger River and Cape Lopez, a major Atlantic slave-trade embarkation region with ports at Bonny, Old Calabar, and New Calabar.
BigID
BigID, founded in 2016 by Dimitri Sirota and Nimrod Vax, is a New York-based data intelligence platform for sensitive data discovery, classification, DSPM, privacy automation, and AI governance.
Bigil
Bigil (பிகில், also Whistle) is a 2019 Tamil sports action drama directed by Atlee, starring Vijay as Michael 'Bigil' Rayappan, a gangster's son coaching a women's soccer team; produced by AGS Entertainment, released 25 October 2019, cut for UK release.
Biginelli reaction
The Biginelli reaction is an acid-catalyzed, one-pot, three-component condensation of an aldehyde, a β-ketoester, and urea or thiourea, discovered by Pietro Biginelli in 1893 and widely used to build biologically active dihydropyrimidinones.
BigLake
BigLake, renamed Google Cloud Lakehouse on April 20, 2026, is Google's storage engine and metastore layer unifying data lakes and warehouses, providing governed BigQuery tables over Iceberg, Parquet, and other open formats across GCS, S3, and ADLS Gen 2.
Bignonia
Bignonia (紫葳屬), bignonias, a conserved Linnaean genus of woody lianas in Bignoniaceae, tribe Bignonieae, native from central and eastern USA to Argentina, with 31 accepted species and Bignonia capreolata, the crossvine, as type.
Bignoniaceae
Bignoniaceae, the trumpet creeper or bignonia family (Juss., 1789, nom. cons.), is a pantropical Lamiales family of woody trees, shrubs, and lianas with zygomorphic flowers, centered in northern South America, with about 79-110 genera and 790-901 species.
Bignor
Bignor Roman Villa, West Sussex: a major Romano-British courtyard villa with fine mosaics, occupied from about AD 200 into the 4th century, discovered by plough in 1811, excavated by Samuel Lysons, and open to visitors since 1814.
Bigo Bay
Bigo Bay (Bigo, bahía) is an 8 by 6 nautical mile bay on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, between Cape Garcia and Magnier Peninsula; named by John Rymill after Mount Bigo following the 1935-36 BGLE survey.
Bigo Live
Bigo Live is a global live streaming platform operated by BIGO Technology and headquartered in Singapore, launched in March 2016 and owned by JOYY Inc.
BigoLive
BigoLive is a Singapore-based live-streaming app launched in March 2016 by BIGO Technology, where viewers send broadcasters cashable virtual gifts, and was fully acquired by JOYY in 2019.
Bigos
Bigos, Polish hunter's stew, is a national dish of sauerkraut, fresh cabbage, and assorted meats, slowly cooked and improved by reheating; originally a 17th-century cabbage-free chopped-meat dish, it took its modern form in the 18th century.
Bigoudène
The bigoudène is the tall white lace headdress of women in the Pays Bigouden, Brittany, around Pont-l'Abbé. It grew from about 8 cm around 1900 to 35 cm after WWII and became a symbol of all Brittany.
BigQuery
BigQuery is a fully managed, serverless data warehouse and analytics platform from Google Cloud, launched in 2012, that lets users analyze data with SQL without provisioning infrastructure.
BigRIPS separator
BigRIPS (超伝導RIビーム分離生成装置) is a two-stage in-flight fragment separator at RIKEN's RI Beam Factory in Wako, Japan, that produces radioactive isotope beams and has yielded 156 new isotopes since 2007.
BigScience
BigScience was an international open-collaboration workshop launched by Hugging Face with French support in 2021, which trained and released the 176-billion-parameter multilingual language model BLOOM in 2022.
Bigtable
Bigtable is a wide-column NoSQL storage system developed at Google from 2004, described in a 2006 paper, and offered as Cloud Bigtable on Google Cloud since 2015.
BigVGAN
BigVGAN is a GAN-based universal neural vocoder developed by NVIDIA researchers that converts mel spectrograms into audio waveforms, including audio types it was never trained on.
BigXthaPlug
BigXthaPlug, also known as Xavier Landum, is an American rapper from Dallas, Texas. He is known for his deep baritone and his crossover success with country music.
Bihać
Bihać, city on the Una river in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina, seat of Una-Sana Canton. First recorded 1260, Ottoman from 1592, Austro-Hungarian 1878, besieged 1,201 days in the 1992–1995 war; 56,261 municipality residents in 2013.
Bihać Republic
The Bihać Republic (Bihaćka Republika) was a Partisan-libered territory in western Bosnia during World War II, centered on Bihać from November 1942 to January 1943.
Bihar
Bihar is a landlocked eastern Indian state of 94,163 sq km on the Ganges plain, India's most densely populated state (1,102/sq km, 2011), with North Bihar flood-prone, South Bihar drought-prone, and high seismic hazard.
Bihar al-Anwar (بحار الأنوار)
Bihar al-Anwar (بحار الأنوار) is an encyclopedic Arabic collection of Twelver Shia hadith compiled by Mohammad-Baqer Majlisi over more than 30 years, containing about 85,000 hadiths.
Bihar Legislative Assembly (बिहार विधान सभा)
Bihar Legislative Assembly (बिहार विधान सभा), Bihar Vidhan Sabha, is Bihar's 243-member lower house (38 SC, 2 ST seats). First responsible government 1937 under Shri Krishna Singh; NDA won 202 seats in the 2025 election.
Bihar Legislative Council
Bihar Legislative Council (बिहार विधान परिषद) is Bihar's 75-member upper house in Patna: 24 local authority, 27 MLA, 6 graduate, 6 teacher seats and 12 Governor-nominated members; founded 1913 at Bankipore, bicameral since 1936.