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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
b.p. | English | Boiling point | Chemistry |
| BP, b.p. | Spanish | Baja presión | Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: B.P. |
| Specialty definitions using "B.P.": altithermal period. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | B.P. Shillaber House, Portsmouth, N.H. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Nepal | Its leader, B.P. Koirala, formed a government and served as prime minister. (references) |
Senegal | The local address of the U.S. embassy in Senegal is: U.S. Embassy, B.P. 49, Ave. (references) | |
Guinea | The mailing address is B.P. 603, Conakry, Guinea (tel: 41-15-20/21/23; fax: 41-15-22). (references) | |
Travel | Chad | Charter air service is available from air charter companies such as Air Affaire Chad, B.P. 526, Tel/Fax:(235) 52-06-20 and Rene J. Mary Aviation, B.P.740, N'Djamena, Tel/Fax:(235) 52-39-42. Transportation away from the capital is generally less reliable but several agencies run regular trips between N'Djamena, Moundou and Sahr using minibuses and landcruisers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "B.P." is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 95.65% of the time. "B.P." is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 95.65% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.35% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 69 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "B.P."; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | kiehumispiste (boiling point). (various references) | |
French | point d'ébullition. (various references) | |
German | SP (boiling point, Socialist Party, Socialist Party of Switzerland, species), Siedepunkt (boiling point), Sdp (boiling point), Kpt (boiling point), KP (boiling point, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea), Kochpunkt (boiling point), Aufkoch (boiling point, ebullition point). (various references) | |
Greek | σημείο βρασμού (boiling point). (various references) | |
Portuguese | ponto de ebulição (at boiling point). (various references) | |
Spanish | punto de ebullición (boil, boiling point, bubble point), PE (boiling point, European Parliament, partial echo, perlucidus, Peru, Republic of Peru), p.e., temperatura a la que hierve un líquido en la atmósfera (boiling point, ebullition point). (various references) | |
Swedish | kokpunkt (boiling point). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Bibliography |
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