BP

Initialism of bipolar.

Adjective

  1. Initialism of bipolar.

Adverb

  1. Initialism of Before Present, conventionally relative to radiocarbon dating in the 1950s.
    • Later diversion of lake drainage between 11,000 and 10,000 BP, due to ice retreat, led to the discharge of Agassiz meltwaters into the western North Atlantic. - 2013, Alastair G. Dawson, Ice Age Earth: Late Quaternary...

    Synonyms: YBP

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of British Petroleum.
    • I was at the BP station, filling up my daddy’s Chrysler with gas, when I finally heard what I think was my mama’s voice in my ear. - 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 203:
    • BP (BP) revealed plans in August to slash its oil production by 40% and pour billions of dollars into clean energy as it attempts to deliver net-zero emission by 2050. […] The moves could make BP (BP) more appealing to...
  2. Initialism of British Pharmacopoeia.
  3. Initialism of Brazilian Portuguese.

Noun

  1. Initialism of blood pressure.
    • I was concerned to find the BP even higher when I took it. - 2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), pages 81–82:
  2. Initialism of boiling point.
  3. Initialism of base pair.
  4. Abbreviation of benzoyl peroxide.

    Synonyms: BPO

  5. Initialism of business plan.
  6. Initialism of backpropagation.

Forms

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