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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.S. | English | Bottom sediments | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: B.S. |
| Specialty definitions using "B.S.": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | B.S. I Love You (1971) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
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Music |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Prof. Elias H. Bartley, B.S., M.D. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Theophrastus Paracelsus. / Gottfr. Bernh. Göz del. B.S. Setletzkÿ sc. Joh. Georg Hertli, excud. Aug. Vind. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "B.S." is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 64.71% of the time. "B.S." is used about 17 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 (proper) | 64.71% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (common) | 35.29% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| India | B.S. Refrigerators Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Language | Translations for "B.S."; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Turkish | fen fakültesi mezunu (b.sc., bach of science, bachelor of science, s.b, sc.b). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Company Usage 7. Translations: Modern 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Bibliography |
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