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Brivaracetam
Brivaracetam (Briviact) is a racetam antiseizure medication, an n-propyl levetiracetam analogue binding SV2A with 15-30-fold higher affinity, approved 2016 for focal seizures; generics FDA-approved February 2026.
Brives
Brives (Brive), from Gaulish briva meaning bridge or ford: name of several French places, chiefly Brive-la-Gaillarde (ancient Briva Curretia on the Corrèze), plus Brives in Indre, Brives-Charensac in Haute-Loire, and a Pleiades-catalogued ancient road station.
Brivodurum
Brivodurum (Briuoduro, Bribodorum) was a Roman road station in Lugdunensis I on the Autun–Paris road, identified with modern Briare on the Loire; Celtic 'bridge fortress', attested on the Peutinger Table and Antonine Itinerary.
Brix
Brix, or degrees Brix (°Bx), is a scale expressing the sugar content of an aqueous solution as the mass percentage of sucrose, one degree being one gram per 100 grams.
Brixen
Brixen (Bressanone) is a South Tyrol town at the Isarco-Rienza confluence, seat of a prince-bishopric from 1027, with a Baroque cathedral (1758), Hofburg, Widmann bridge (1882), and tourism on Mount Plose.
Brixton
Brixton, a district in the London Borough of Lambeth, south London: Victorian shopping hub, Caribbean community center since the 1950s, site of the 1981 riots, covered markets, and rapid gentrification since the 2010s.
Brixton Academy
Brixton Academy (O2 Academy Brixton), a Grade II listed 4,921-capacity former 1929 Astoria cinema at 211 Stockwell Road, south London; bought for £1 by Simon Parkes in 1983, closed after the fatal December 2022 Asake crowd crush, reopened in 2024 under 77 licensing conditions.
Brixworth
Brixworth, Northamptonshire: village six miles north of Northampton, known for the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon All Saints' Church, a Roman villa (70-400 AD), Saxon settlements, ironstone quarries, and Pitsford Reservoir.
BRM
BRM is a privately held Israeli investment group and venture investor founded in 1988 by Eli Barkat, Nir Barkat, and Yuval Rakavy, best known as the founding backer of Check Point Software.
BRM Commodities Exchange
BRM Commodities Exchange (Bursa Română de Marfuri) is a private Romanian commodity exchange founded in 1992, headquartered in Bucharest, which trades natural gas and electricity and is one of two gas platforms in Romania.
Brno
Město Brno (Brno), statutory city in the Czech South Moravian Region, second largest Czech city with 404,296 residents (2025), 29 districts, seat of the Constitutional, Supreme, and Supreme Administrative Courts.
Bro (2023 film)
Bro (2023) is a Telugu fantasy comedy-drama directed by Samuthirakani, a remake of his Tamil film Vinodhaya Sitham, starring Pawan Kalyan as the God of Time and Sai Dharam Tej as Mark, released 28 July 2023 to mixed reviews.
Bro Code
Bro Code: an unwritten rulebook of male-friendship loyalty, popularized by How I Met Your Mother's Barney Stinson (2008 book) and reworked in gender studies by Thomas Keith for sexist bro culture.
Bro culture
Bro culture: social practices of male peer groups addressing each other as "bro", rooted in U.S. fraternity life and linked to homosociality, banter, and, critically, misogyny; British analogue is lad culture.
Bro Daddy
Bro Daddy is a 2022 Indian Malayalam-language comedy film directed and produced by Prithviraj Sukumaran, starring Mohanlal as a wealthy Kochi businessman alongside Prithviraj, which premiered directly on Disney+ Hotstar in January 2022.
BRO N-terminal domain
The BRO N-terminal domain (Bro-N) is the conserved DNA-binding domain of baculovirus repeated ORF proteins, found in large dsDNA viruses of invertebrates, bacteriophages, and bacteria.
Bro-country
Bro-country: pejorative term for the male-dominated, truck-and-party themed country subgenre of the early 2010s, coined by Jody Rosen in 2013; defined by Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" and undone by backlash and 2015-2016 decline.
BRO1 domain-containing protein BROX
BROX (C1orf58, UniProt Q5VW32) is a human 411-aa, farnesylated single-Bro1-domain ESCRT adaptor protein that binds CHMP4b, stimulates HIV-1 Gag budding, and supports nuclear envelope repair, distinct from ALIX and HD-PTP.
Broaching (metalworking)
Broaching is a machining process in which a multi-tooth tool called a broach removes material in a single pass, widely used in automotive and aeronautics production.
Broaching-to
Broaching-to is a sudden, uncontrollable turn of a ship in following or stern-quartering seas that continues despite maximum opposite rudder action, often causing a large heel angle and, in extreme cases, capsizing.
Broad absorption line quasar
A broad absorption line quasar is a quasar whose ultraviolet spectrum shows broad absorption troughs from fast gas outflows, about 10 to 15 percent of optically selected quasars.
Broad and Alien Is the World
Broad and Alien Is the World (El mundo es ancho y ajeno) is a 1941 novel by the Peruvian writer Ciro Alegría, considered his masterpiece of indigenist narrative.
Broad arrow
Broad arrow (also pheon, crow's foot): a stylized arrowhead charge in English heraldry and the British government property mark, first officially documented in 1330, used by the Board of Ordnance, War Department, and MoD across the Empire.
Broad church
Broad Church Movement: a Church of England party, alongside high and low church, defined by doctrinal comprehensiveness, tolerance, and openness to reason as a mediator of religious truth.
Broad City
Broad City is an American Comedy Central single-camera sitcom (2014-2019, five seasons, 50 episodes) created by and starring Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer as fictionalized versions of themselves, adapted from their UCB-rooted web series with Amy Poehler as executive producer.
Broad fire extinguisher front
The Broad fire extinguisher front (Polish: szeroki front gaśnicowy) is an informal Polish anti-establishment alliance led by Grzegorz Braun, named for his 2023 Sejm fire extinguisher incident.
Broad Front (Uruguay)
Frente Amplio (Broad Front), Uruguay's left-of-center coalition-party founded 5 February 1971 under Líber Seregni; largest party since 1999, governed 2005–2020 under Vázquez and Mujica, returned to power in 2025 under Yamandú Orsi.
Broad Institute
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard: independent nonprofit biomedical research institute in Kendall Square, Cambridge, founded 2003-2004 by Eli and Edythe Broad with MIT, Harvard, and Whitehead; genomics, CRISPR, DepMap, GATK, and therapeutics.
Broad learning system
The broad learning system (BLS) is a flat neural network introduced by C. L. Philip Chen and Zhulin Liu in 2017, trained far faster than deep learning.
Broad Peak
Broad Peak, situated in the Karakoram range on the Pakistan and China border, is the world's 12th-highest mountain. It was first climbed in 1957 by an Austrian team.