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Bistorta
Bistorta (bistorts) is a genus of about 44-50 perennial rhizomatous herbs in Polygonaceae, native from subarctic and temperate Eurasia and North America to northeast Mexico; includes European bistort (Bistorta officinalis, syn. Polygonum bistorta).
Bistorta officinalis
Bistorta officinalis (bistort, common bistort, European bistort; formerly Polygonum bistorta) is a Polygonaceae perennial of temperate Eurasia and Morocco with a contorted tannin-rich rhizome, pink flower spikes, medicinal and food uses, and garden cultivars.
Bistra
Bistra (Bisztra), a reported Roman-era alluvial gold-washing site on the Bistra River, Alba County, Romania (Dacia), known from 19th-century reports of mining tools and a Caracalla coin; distinct from the Slovenian Bistra site.
Bistriţa-Năsăud
Bistriţa-Năsăud (Beszterce-Naszód megye), Romanian county in northern Transylvania, NUTS 3 RO112, capital Bistriţa. About 297,000 people, 5,355 km², GDP per capita 11,700 € (2024), 31st of 42 Romanian regions.
Bistro
Bistro (bistrot): a small informal restaurant of French origin serving simple, inexpensive food. Parisian slang from 1884; the Russian bystro etymology is folk legend; bistronomy is its modern gastronomic offshoot.
Bisulfite
Bisulfite, also called hydrogensulfite, is the anion HSO₃⁻, the conjugate base of sulfurous acid; salts such as sodium bisulfite serve as preservatives, reducing agents, dechlorinating agents, and reagents.
Bisulfite sequencing
Bisulfite sequencing (BS-Seq, WGBS, RRBS) measures DNA methylation at single-base resolution: sodium bisulfite converts unmethylated cytosine to uracil while 5mC resists, so C/(C+T) read counts reveal methylation, developed by Frommer et al. 1992.
Bisutun (Ziyarid amir)
Bisutun, full name Zahir-al-Dawla Abu Mansur, was the Ziyarid amir of Tabarestan and Gorgan in northern Iran from 967 to 978, ruling with Buyid backing.
Biswa Singha
Biswa Singha (বিশ্বসিংহ), also written Visvasimha, was a Koch chieftain who founded the Kamata-Koch kingdom in the lower Brahmaputra valley, reigning from about 1515 to 1540.
Biswajit Chatterjee
Biswajit Chatterjee (Biswajit Ranjitkumar Chatterjee, বিশ্বজিৎ চট্টোপাধ্যায়), born 14 December 1936 in Calcutta, is an Indian actor of Hindi and Bengali cinema, the 1960s romantic lead of Bees Saal Baad, Kohra, and Mere Sanam, father of Prosenjit Chatterjee, and IFFI 51 Indian Personality of the Year.
Biswajit Daimary
Biswajit Daimary is an Indian politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party who serves as a minister in the Government of Assam and is a prominent face of Bodo politics.
Biswajit Sinha (Rahul Sinha)
Biswajit Sinha, known politically as Rahul Sinha, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented West Bengal in the Rajya Sabha since 2026.
Bit
A bit, or binary digit, is the smallest unit of information in computing, taking one of two values written 0 and 1; eight bits make a byte.
Bit Adini
Bit Adini (Bīt-Adini), known in the Hebrew Bible as Beth-Eden, was an Aramean kingdom on the middle Euphrates with its capital at Til Barsip, conquered by Assyria in 856 BC.
Bit Agusi
Bit Agusi, also written Bit Agushi, was an Aramean kingdom in northern Syria with its capital at Arpad (modern Tell Rifa'at), annexed by Assyria in 740 BCE.
Bit array
A bit array, also called a bit vector or bitmap, is a data structure that packs a sequence of 0s and 1s at one bit per element.
Bit Bahiani
Bit Bahiani was an Aramean principality on the Habur river in northeastern Syria, centered on Guzana, modern Tell Halaf, attested from 894 BC and annexed by Assyria in the early eighth century BC.
Bit error rate
Bit error rate (BER), also called bit error ratio or bit error probability, is the ratio of incorrectly received bits to total bits transmitted through a communications channel.
Bīt mēseri
Bīt mēseri, meaning "house of enclosure", is a first-millennium BC Mesopotamian ritual series in which an exorcist expelled demons from a patient's house over four days.
Bit numbering
Bit numbering assigns index numbers to the individual bits of a value. Conventions include LSB 0, where 0 is least significant, and MSB 0, where 0 is most significant.
Bit rate
Bit rate, also known as bits per second, is the number of bits transferred, processed, or delivered per unit of time, the basic measure of digital data speed.
Bīt rimki
Bīt rimki (Bit rimki), Akkadian for "house of washing," is an Assyrian royal purification ritual in which an exorcist purified the king with water and prayers to Šamaš.
Bit rot
Bit rot, also called data rot or silent corruption, is the slow deterioration of data stored on media like hard drives, SSDs, and flash drives.
Bit-Amukkani
Bit-Amukkani was a large Chaldean tribe of southern Babylonia between Nippur and Uruk, with its capital at Šapīya, where Mukin-zeri was besieged by Tiglath-pileser III in 731 BC.
Bit-Halupe
Bit-Halupe (بيت خلوبي), also written Bit-Ḫalupe and Bet-Halupe, was a small Aramean emirate on the middle Euphrates with its capital at Suru, annexed by Assyria under Tiglath-pileser III.
Bit-Hamban
Bit-Hamban, also Bīt Ḫamban or Bīt Habban, was a district and later Assyrian province in the central Zagros, attested from after 1157 BC to 612 BC.
Bit-hilani
The bit-hilani (Akkadian bīt ḫilāni) is a monumental palace type of the Syro-Anatolian city-states of North Syria, adopted by Neo-Assyrian kings by the mid-eighth century BC.
Bit-Iakin
Bit-Iakin, more commonly written Bit-Yakin, was a Chaldean tribal polity in the marshlands of southern Babylonia, an adversary of Assyria in the 8th century BC.
Bit-interleaved coded modulation
Bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) is a coded modulation scheme that separates channel coding from modulation, letting binary codes like LDPC pair with any modulation format in optical and wireless systems.
Bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding
Bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding (BICM-ID) is a bandwidth-efficient coded-modulation scheme, introduced by Xiaodong Li and James A. Ritcey at the University of Washington in 1997.