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Bimini
Bimini: westernmost Bahamas district of North and South Bimini, 50 miles from Florida; Lucayan name meaning small islands; mangrove nurseries, big-game fishing, Resorts World Bimini resort, and the South Bimini shark research station.
Bimini Road
Bimini Road, also called Bimini Wall, is an underwater line of limestone slabs off North Bimini, Bahamas, reported in 1968 and linked to Atlantis via Edgar Cayce; geologists identify it as natural beachrock about 2,000-4,000 years old.
Bimodule
A bimodule is an abelian group carrying a left module structure over one ring and a right module structure over another, with the two actions commuting.
Bimol Akoijam
Angomcha Bimol Akoijam, born in 1967, is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Inner Manipur in the Lok Sabha since the 2024 election.
Bimolecular fluorescence complementation
Bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) is a microscopy technique that detects protein-protein interactions in living cells, introduced by Chang-Deng Hu and Tom K. Kerppola in 2002.
BIMSTEC
BIMSTEC, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, is a seven-member regional organization founded in Bangkok in 1997, linking Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
Bin Cheng
Bin Cheng (郑斌, 1921–2019) was a Chinese-born British international lawyer, UCL Professor of Air and Space Law, author of General Principles of Law (1953) and Studies in International Space Law (1997), and originator of the instant custom theory.
Bin el Ouidane Dam
The Bin el Ouidane Dam (French: barrage de Bin el Ouidane) is a concrete arch dam in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains, commissioned in 1953 for hydropower and irrigation.
Bin Gao
Bin Gao is a physician-scientist who leads the Laboratory of Liver Diseases at NIAAA, NIH, and created the widely used NIAAA mouse model of alcoholic liver disease.
Bin Hu
Bin Hu is a materials scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, known for research on organic semiconductors and perovskite solar cells.
Bin Laden family
The Bin Laden family is a wealthy Saudi family of Yemeni origin that founded the kingdom's largest construction firm, held exclusive rights to Islamic holy-site construction, and was globally known after Osama bin Laden founded al Qaeda; the Saudi state now controls over 92% of its holding group.
Bin Liu
Bin Liu (刘斌) is a chemical and biomolecular engineer who is Deputy President (Research and Technology) at the National University of Singapore, known for AIE bioprobes.
Bin packing problem
The bin packing problem is a combinatorial optimization problem asking for the fewest unit-capacity bins needed to hold items of given sizes; it is NP-complete.
Bin picking
Bin picking is an industrial robotics task where a robot uses 3D vision and a gripper to detect, pick, and place randomly oriented parts from a bin.
Bin Qasim power station
The Bin Qasim power station is a K-Electric-owned gas- and oil-fired power complex at Port Qasim, Karachi, Pakistan, with about 2,720 MW of capacity across three plants.
Bin Roye
Bin Roye is a 2015 Pakistani Urdu-language romantic drama film directed by Momina Duraid and Shahzad Kashmiri, based on Farhat Ishtiaq's novel Bin Roye Ansoo and starring Humayun Saeed and Mahira Khan.
Bin Tean Teh
Bin Tean Teh is a Singapore-based cancer geneticist at A*STAR and the National Cancer Centre Singapore who studies the genomics of Asian-prevalent cancers, including cholangiocarcinoma.
Bin Tepe
Bin Tepe, Turkish for "Thousand Mounds," is a Lydian royal tumulus cemetery near Sardis in western Turkey, the largest in Anatolia, whose largest mound is the tomb of King Alyattes.
Bin Umar
Bin Umar, also written Bin Omar and historically Nahr Bin Umar, is a super-giant oil and gas field in Basra province, southern Iraq, with reserves of more than 5 billion barrels.
Bin Wang
Bin Wang is a climate scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, known for work on the Asian–Australian monsoon and ENSO.
Bin Yu
Bin Yu is a statistician and data scientist at UC Berkeley, known for statistical machine learning theory and the veridical data science framework she proposed.
Bin Yue (岳斌)
Bin Yue (岳斌) is a Chinese venture capitalist and founding partner of Gaorong Capital, which he co-founded in 2014, known for an early Xiaomi investment.
Bina Das
Bina Das (बीना दास) was an Indian revolutionary from Bengal who fired five shots at Governor Stanley Jackson at the Calcutta University convocation in 1932, serving nine years in prison.
Bina Marga
Bina Marga, formally the Directorate General of Highways (Direktorat Jenderal Bina Marga), is the Indonesian agency responsible for national roads and bridges under the Ministry of Public Works.
Bina Rai
Bina Rai (Beena Rai, born Krishna Sarin, 13 July 1931 - 6 December 2009) was an Indian actress of black-and-white Hindi cinema, star of Anarkali (1953) and Taj Mahal (1963), Filmfare Best Actress winner for Ghunghat (1960), wife of actor Premnath.
Binah (בִּינָה) (Kabbalah)
Binah (בִּינָה, understanding) is the third sefirah in Kabbalah, after Keter and Chochmah. It processes and delimits wisdom, is figured as the Upper Mother and Womb, and is called Mi, the fifty gates.
Binak Oil and Gas Field
Binak Oil and Gas Field is an onshore Iranian oil and gas field in Bushehr province, producing oil since 1967, with a gas field discovered in 1999.
Binali Yıldırım
Binali Yıldırım (born 1955, Erzincan), Turkish maritime engineer, AKP founding member, long-serving transport minister, last prime minister of Turkey's parliamentary system (May 2016–July 2018), then first Speaker under the executive presidency and 2019 Istanbul mayoral candidate.
Biñan
Biñan, officially the City of Biñan, is a component city in Laguna, Philippines, south of Metro Manila. Founded 1571 by Juan de Salcedo; Rizal schooled there 1869; chartered 2009; population 584,479 (2024).
Binance
Binance, also known as Binance Holdings, is a cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2017 that became the world's largest crypto trading venue, handling trillions in annual volume.