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Bring radical
The Bring radical, also called the ultraradical, is a function solving z^5 + z + t = 0, which lets the general quintic be solved once admitted as a new operation.
Bring the Jubilee
Bring the Jubilee is Ward Moore's 1953 alternate-history novel (novella 1952, F&SF) in which the Confederacy wins the Civil War, and historian Hodge Backmaker's time trip to Gettysburg accidentally restores our own timeline.
Bring Up the Bodies
Bring Up the Bodies is Hilary Mantel's 2012 historical novel, second of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy after Wolf Hall, covering Anne Boleyn's fall from Cromwell's viewpoint; it won the 2012 Booker Prize and Costa Book of the Year.
Bring Your Love
"Bring Your Love" is a 2026 dance-pop song by Madonna featuring Sabrina Carpenter, released on April 30, 2026 as a single from Madonna's album Confessions II and premiered at Coachella.
Bring your own device
Bring your own device (BYOD) is a workplace policy allowing employees to use personal smartphones, tablets, and laptops for work, a term coined by Intel in 2009.
Bringing Down the House (film)
Bringing Down the House is a 2003 Touchstone comedy directed by Adam Shankman, starring Steve Martin and Queen Latifah as an online-dating mismatched lawyer and escaped convict; it grossed $132.5 million in the US despite a 33% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Bringing It All Back Home
Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan's fifth album (Columbia, March 22, 1965), half electric band, half acoustic; produced by Tom Wilson; includes Subterranean Homesick Blues, Maggie's Farm, Mr. Tambourine Man; key folk-rock turning point.
Bringing Out the Dead
Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 American drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Nicolas Cage as a burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic haunted by patients he failed to save.
Bringing Them Home
Bringing Them Home is the 1997 Australian report documenting, for the first time in a government inquiry, the Stolen Generations, and recommending apology, compensation, and reunification.
Bringing Up Baby
Bringing Up Baby (1938) is Howard Hawks's RKO screwball comedy starring Cary Grant as paleontologist David Huxley and Katharine Hepburn as heiress Susan Vance, with a leopard named Baby; a 1938 box-office flop now ranked 88th on AFI's greatest-films list.
Bringing Up Father
Bringing Up Father, also known as Jiggs and Maggie, is George McManus's American comic strip (1913–2000) about a nouveau riche Irish-American couple: Jiggs longs for his old tavern life while Maggie pursues high society; syndicated by King Features and adapted for stage, film, and radio.
Brinicle
A brinicle is a hollow, downward-growing tube of ice that forms beneath polar sea ice when dense, supercooled brine sinks and freezes surrounding seawater, sometimes reaching the seafloor.
Brining
Brining is the process of soaking food in a strong saltwater solution so the tissue absorbs salt, which preserves and seasons the food; sugar may be added.
Brink!
Brink! is a 1998 Disney Channel Original Movie, the third DCOM, directed by Greg Beeman and starring Erik von Detten as inline skater Andy Brinker, who joins rival sponsored team X-Bladz to help his family.
Brink's-Mat robbery
The Brink's-Mat robbery, 26 November 1983 near Heathrow: six armed men stole 3.5 tonnes of gold worth £26m from the Brink's-Mat depot, Britain's biggest bullion heist, largely laundered and never recovered.
Brinker Harding
Brinker Harding, an American politician and 2026 Republican nominee for the US House in Nebraska's 2nd district, serves on the Omaha City Council and was chief of staff to Mayor Hal Daub.
Brinker International
Brinker International is a Dallas-based casual dining restaurant company that owns, operates, and franchises the Chili's Grill & Bar and Maggiano's Little Italy brands, tracing its origins to the first Chili's, founded in 1975.
Brinkmanship
Brinkmanship is pushing a dangerous situation to the edge of safety to gain advantage over an adversary, notably used by John Foster Dulles in the Cold War.
Brinley Newton-John
Brinley Newton-John (1914-1992), Welsh-born professor of German literature, Bletchley Park Hut 3 intelligence officer in the El Alamein intelligence effort, MI5 file via Klaus Fuchs link, and father of Olivia Newton-John.
Brinson model
The Brinson model is an arithmetic method of performance attribution, introduced by Gary Brinson and colleagues in 1985 and 1986, that decomposes a portfolio's active return into allocation, selection, and interaction effects.
Brinsworth House
Brinsworth House is a care home in Twickenham, west London, run by the Royal Variety Charity for retired entertainers, known as the "Old Pros' Paradise".
Brinzolamide
Brinzolamide (Azopt; Simbrinza with brimonidine) is a topical carbonic anhydrase II inhibitor eye drop lowering intraocular pressure in open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension; FDA-approved 1998, dosed one drop two to three times daily, common effects blurred vision and dysgeusia.
Brio (company)
BRIO, formally BRIO AB, is a Swedish toy company based in Malmö and best known for its wooden railway system. It traces its origin to 1884 and has been owned by Germany's Ravensburger Group since 2015.
Brioche
Brioche: French viennoiserie, a yeast-leavened enriched bread with high butter and egg content, soft stringy crumb. Word attested 15th century (1404); Cotgrave 1611; earliest recipe 1742; includes Brioche vendéenne PGI.
BrioHealth Technologies (同心医疗)
BrioHealth Technologies (同心医疗) is a Chinese medical device company in Suzhou, founded in 2008, whose CH-VAD became China's first fully magnetically levitated artificial heart in 2021.
Brion James
Brion James (Brion Howard James, 1945-1999), American character actor famed for villainous roles: Leon in Blade Runner, Ben Kehoe in 48 HRS. and Another 48 HRS., Joel Levison in The Player, and General Munro in The Fifth Element. Distinguishes him from other actors named Brion or James.
BRIP1
BRIP1 (FANCJ, formerly BACH1) is a DEAH-box DNA helicase gene on 17q23.2 that binds BRCA1, acts downstream of FANCD2 in Fanconi anemia crosslink repair; biallelic variants cause FA-J, monoallelic variants confer moderate ovarian cancer risk.
Briquette
A briquette is a block of compressed fuel made from loose combustible material such as coal dust, charcoal fines, peat, or biomass, formed under pressure to burn like solid fuel.
Brisance
Brisance is the shattering capability of an explosive, its ability to break material in direct contact, distinct from total power and measured by tests like the sand test.
Brisanet
Brisanet is a Brazilian fiber broadband and regional 5G operator founded in 1998 in Pereiro, Ceará, by José Roberto Nogueira, the Northeast's fixed-broadband leader and Brazil's fourth-largest provider.