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Bite Now

BITE NOW is the second EP (June 1, 2026, THEBLACKLABEL) by K-pop girl group MEOVV, five tracks led by "DDI RO RI," which samples Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor; members co-wrote, Dr. Luke produced two tracks.

Bitemporal hemianopsia

Bitemporal hemianopsia (bitemporal hemianopia): loss of the temporal half of the visual field in both eyes, classically from a pituitary adenoma or other lesion compressing crossing nasal fibers at the optic chiasm.

Bitemporal modeling

Bitemporal modeling tracks data along two time axes: valid time (when a fact is true in the real world) and transaction time (when the database recorded it), enabling audit, retrospective correction, and time-travel queries; formalized in TSQL2 and later SQL:2011, used in finance and auditing.

Bitertanol

Bitertanol (Baycor, Biloxazol) is a triazole DMI fungicide, FRAC code 3, inhibiting fungal CYP51 ergosterol biosynthesis; introduced 1980, EU-approved 2012, withdrawn 2013, chiral with four stereoisomers.

Bitewing radiography

Bitewing radiography is a dental X-ray technique in which the receptor is held between the teeth so one exposure records the crowns of upper and lower teeth.

Bitfarms Ltd

Bitfarms Ltd, founded in 2017 and traded on Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange as BITF, is a Bitcoin mining and digital-infrastructure company based in New York and Toronto.

Bitfinex

Bitfinex is a cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2012 by Raphael Nicolle and operated by iFinex, serving professional traders with spot, margin, derivatives, and fiat trading.

BitFit

BitFit (BIas-Term FIne-Tuning) is a parameter-efficient fine-tuning method, introduced in 2021, that freezes all weight matrices and trains only bias terms and a task head.

Bitget

Bitget is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company founded in 2018, headquartered in Victoria, Seychelles, and known for its copy trading products and derivatives business.

Bitglass

Bitglass was a cloud security company based in Campbell, California, founded in 2013 by Nat Kausik and Anurag Kahol, which sold a CASB platform and was acquired by Forcepoint in 2021.

BitGo

BitGo, also known as BitGo Holdings, is an American digital asset custody and financial-services company founded in 2013, known for pioneering 2-of-3 multisignature Bitcoin wallets.

Bithia

Bithia, also known as Bitia, is a Phoenician, later Punic and Roman, harbor town on the southern coast of Sardinia at modern Chia, founded around 720 BC.

Bithionol

Bithionol (Bitin, Actamer), a chlorinated bisphenol anthelmintic, treated Fasciola, Paragonimus, and tapeworm infections before photosensitivity led to its 1967 FDA withdrawal; now obsolete as a drug but studied for antibacterial and anticancer repurposing.

Bithiophene

Bithiophene, in its most common form 2,2'-bithiophene, is an organic compound of two linked thiophene rings that serves as a building block for conducting and semiconducting polymers.

Bithoor Mound

Bithoor Mound (Dhruv Teela, बिठूर टीला) is an ASI Centrally Protected earthen mound on the Ganga's west bank at Bithoor, Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, with early historical pottery, temples, and an ashram within its 7.553-acre protected boundary.

Bithumb Korea

Bithumb Korea (빗썸코리아) is a Seoul-based fintech company founded in 2014 as Xcoin that operates Bithumb, South Korea's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, and targets a 2028 IPO.

Bithyas

Bithyas (Greek Βιθύας), also spelled Bithias, was a Numidian cavalry commander who deserted from Rome's ally Gulussa to Carthage in 148 BC during the Third Punic War.

Bithynia

Bithynia (Βιθυνία), ancient region and kingdom in northwest Asia Minor on the Propontis and Black Sea, ruled by kings from Zipoetes (298/7 BCE) to Nicomedes IV, who bequeathed it to Rome; cities included Nicomedia, Nicaea, and Chalcedon.

Bitis

Bitis, the African adders (puff adder, Gaboon viper, rhinoceros viper), is a genus of 18 venomous Viperidae species across Africa and southern Arabia, ranging from under 30 cm to over 2 m, with coagulotoxic venom and major snakebite burden.

BITKOM

Bitkom, formally the Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien, is Germany's digital industry association. Founded in 1999, it represents more than 2,200 companies generating about 200 billion euros in annual turnover.

Bitkraft Ventures

Bitkraft Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in gaming, esports, and interactive media, founded in 2018 by Jens Hilgers, Scott Rupp, and Malte Barth and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Bitkraft Ventures Token

Bitkraft Ventures Token refers to the two Delaware venture funds of BITKRAFT Ventures, a gaming VC firm, investing in blockchain gaming through both tokens and equity.

BITLEVEX

BITLEVEX is an Estonia-based cryptocurrency options-trading platform founded in Tallinn in 2019 by CEO Mikhail Skoblov, which drew attention in 2022 with a $50 million GEM Digital investment facility.

Bitlis

Bitlis: city and province in Turkey's Eastern Anatolia region, west of Lake Van; named after Bedlis, Alexander's commander; Seljuk from 1084, Ottoman from 1514, liberated from Russian occupation 8 August 1916; TRB2 region, SEGE rank 76th.

BitLocker

BitLocker, also known as BitLocker Drive Encryption or Secure Startup, is a Windows security feature that encrypts entire volumes and has shipped with Windows since Vista.

Bitly

Bitly is an American link management platform, founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York City, that provides URL shortening, QR Codes, landing pages, and click analytics.

Bitmain

Bitmain (比特大陆) is a Beijing-founded semiconductor company established in October 2013 by Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan that makes ANTMINER digital currency mining servers and Sophon AI chips.

Bitmap

A bitmap, also called a bitset or bit vector, is a data structure representing a set of integers as an array of bits, with constant-time membership, insertion, and deletion.

Bitmap index

A bitmap index is a database index storing one bit per row for each distinct column value, so queries answer compound conditions with fast Boolean operations on the bits.

BitMEX

BitMEX, or Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange, was a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange founded in 2014 by Arthur Hayes, Ben Delo, and Samuel Reed, pioneering the perpetual swap and closing in 2026.