A bet is a

gambling Gambling (also known as betting or gaming) is the wagering of something of value ("the stakes") on a random event with the intent of winning something else of value, where instances of strategy are discounted. Gambling thus requires three ele ...

wager. Bet or BET may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Bet Lynch Bet Lynch (also Gilroy) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera '' Coronation Street''. Portrayed by Julie Goodyear, the character first appeared on screen during the episode airing on Monday 25 May 1966. Appearing over 25 ye ...

, a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' * Elizabeth "Bet" Yeager, protagonist of '' Rimrunners'', a science fiction novel * the title character of '' Bet, Queen of Jordan'', a 1924 Dutch film * "Bet" (song), a 2019 song by Octavian *"Bet", a song from ''

Aquarius Aquarius may refer to: Astrology * Aquarius (astrology), an astrological sign * Age of Aquarius, a time period in the cycle of astrological ages Astronomy * Aquarius (constellation) * Aquarius in Chinese astronomy Arts and entertainment ...

'', a 2014 Tinashe album

Business and economics

BET Black Entertainment Television (acronym BET) is an American basic cable channel targeting African-American audiences. It is owned by the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global via BET Networks and has offices in New York City, Los ...

, Black Entertainment Television, an American television channel * Budapest Stock Exchange (''in Hungarian'' Budapesti Értéktőzsde (BÉT)) * BET plc, formerly

British Electric Traction British Electric Traction Company Limited, renamed BET plc in 1985, was a large British industrial conglomerate. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Rentokil in 1996, and the merged company is now known as Rento ...

* Biotechnia Ellinikon Trikyklon, a Greek vehicle manufacturer that ceased production in 1975 * Basic Economics Test

Places

Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti (prefecture) Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Prefecture was the largest of the 14 prefectures of Chad between 1960 and 1999. It was transformed into Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region, one of the 18 regions into which the country has been divided since 2002. Its name is ofte ...

, a former prefecture of Chad ** Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti (region), a former region of Chad

People

* Bet van Beeren (1902—1967), legendary bar owner in Amsterdam *

Bet Low Bet Low (28 December 1924 – 2 December 2007) was a Scottish figurative and landscape painter, notable as one of the Glasgow Girls, and as a co-founder of the Clyde Group. Life Born in Gourock, Bet Low grew up by the Clyde Estuary in p ...

(1924–2007), Scottish painter * Aldo Bet (born 1949), Italian former footballer *

Yelena Bet Yelena Bet (sometimes listed as Alana Bets, born May 2, 1976) is a Belarusian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she earned her best finish of sixth in the K-4 500 m event at Sydney in 2000 ...

(born 1976), Belarusian sprint canoer

Science

* BET theory, an adsorption model for gases named after physicists Brunauer, Emmett and Teller *

Blade element theory Blade element theory (BET) is a mathematical process originally designed by William Froude (1878), David W. Taylor (1893) and Stefan Drzewiecki to determine the behavior of propellers. It involves breaking a blade down into several small parts then ...

to determine the behaviour of propellers * Bromo- and Extra-Terminal domain (BET) family of

Bromodomain A bromodomain is an approximately 110 amino acid protein domain that recognizes acetylated lysine residues, such as those on the ''N''-terminal tails of histones. Bromodomains, as the "readers" of lysine acetylation, are responsible in transducin ...

-containing proteins

Other uses

Bet (letter) Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Bēt , Hebrew Bēt , Aramaic Bēth , Syriac Bēṯ , and Arabic . Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop ⟨b⟩ or the voiced labiodental fric ...

, the second letter in many Semitic alphabets, including Phoenician, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic *

BET Awards The BET Awards is an American award show that was established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate black entertainers and other minorities in music, film, sports and philanthropy. The awards, which are presented annua ...

, established in 2001 by Black Entertainment Television * BET, IATA code for

Bethel Airport Bethel Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Bethel, a city in the Bethel Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Admini ...