Definition of "BP"

BP

proper noun
1. Initialism of British Petroleum.
  Quotations
  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
2. (pharmacy) Initialism of British Pharmacopoeia.
3. Initialism of Brazilian Portuguese.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural BPs
1. Initialism of blood pressure.
  Quotations
  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. (biochemistry) Initialism of base pair.
4. (uncountable) Abbreviation of benzoyl peroxide.
5. (business) Initialism of business plan.
6. (machine learning) Initialism of backpropagation.
adverb
not comparable
1. (sciences) Initialism of Before Present, conventionally relative to radiocarbon dating in the 1950s.
  Quotations
  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 Geology and Climate, Routledge, page 107
adjective
1. Initialism of bipolar.