Biot

Biot or BIOT may refer to:

Places

• Biot, Alpes-Maritimes, a commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
• Biot, a village in Castelnau-de-Brassac, Midi-Pyrénées, France
• Cape Biot, Greenland
• British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), an overseas island territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean

Fiction

• Biot ("BIological robOT"), the name given to an extraterrestrial biological robot in the fictional universe of Arthur C. Clarke's novel Rendezvous with Rama (1973).
• Biot, a fictional world in the DC Comics universe; see Manhunters
• Biological robot
• Biot, Biological Optical Transputer Systems, robots in the Phantom 2040 animated series

People

• Biot (surname)

Science

• Biot (crater), a lunar crater, named after Jean-Baptiste Biot
• Biot number, a dimensionless number used in heat transfer calculations, named after Jean-Baptiste Biot
• Abampere, or Biot, a unit of current, named after Jean-Baptiste Biot

• Biot's breathing, an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by groups of quick, shallow inspirations followed by regular or irregular periods of apnea; named by Camille Biot