Bianchi may refer to:
Places
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Bianchi, Calabria
Bianchi (Northern Calabrian, Calabrian: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy.
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Cities and towns in Calabria
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, a ''comune'' in the Province of Cosenza, Italy
Manufacturing
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Bianchi Bicycles (F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A.), an Italian manufacturer of bicycles, and former manufacturer of motorcycles and automobiles
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Bianchi (motorcycles)
Bianchi was a brand of Italian motorcycle made from 1897 to 1967 by F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A. The company also produced automobiles from 1900 to 1939, and today is a major Italian bicycle manufacturer. Edoardo Bianchi started his bicycle ...
, a line of Italian motorcycles made from 1897 to 1967
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Autobianchi
Autobianchi () was an Italian automobile manufacturer, created jointly by Bianchi (company), Bianchi, Pirelli and Fiat in 1955. Autobianchi produced only a handful of models during its lifetime, which were almost exclusively small cars, with the b ...
, an automobile manufacturer co-founded in 1955 by Fiat, Bianchi and Pirelli, before being fully bought by Fiat in 1969.
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Bianchi International
Bianchi International of Temecula, California is a worldwide producer of leather and nylon goods for the law enforcement industry. Since the 1960s they have produced items from gun holsters to duty belts and everything related in between.
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a leather product manufacturer based in California
Sport
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Liquigas-Bianchi
Cannondale Pro Cycling Team (), previously known as Liquigas, was an Italian professional road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour.
History
The team was formed at the start of the UCI ProTour in 2005. the team was co-title sponsored by Itali ...
, a cycling team created from the merger of Team Bianchi and Liquigas
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Team Bianchi
Team Bianchi was a makeshift team that was put together from the remnants of the Coast team in time for the 2003 Tour de France.
Team Coast had been unable to pay the salaries of their riders and Bianchi took over the team and the role of tit ...
, a cycling team
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The Bianchi Cup
The Bianchi Cup is a major action pistol tournament in the United States, held in May at the Green Valley Rifle & Pistol Club in Missouri. The Bianchi Cup is the only major shooting tournament that has retained its original course of fire sin ...
, an NRA Action Pistol Championships
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Bianchi (cycling team)
Bianchi was an Italian professional cycling team that was sponsored by and cycled on Bianchi Bicycles. A Bianchi cycling team existed in 1899 which implies that Bianchi was sponsoring professional cycling at a very early stage in the sport. It ...
, an Italian professional cycling team that was sponsored by and cycled on Bianchi Bicycles, 1899-2003
Mathematics
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Bianchi identities
In differential geometry, the curvature form describes curvature of a connection on a principal bundle. The Riemann curvature tensor in Riemannian geometry can be considered as a special case.
Definition
Let ''G'' be a Lie group with Lie algebra ...
in differential geometry,
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contracted Bianchi identities
In general relativity and tensor calculus, the contracted Bianchi identities are:
: \nabla_\rho _\mu = \nabla_ R
where _\mu is the Ricci tensor, R the scalar curvature, and \nabla_\rho indicates covariant differentiation.
These identities are n ...
in general relativity,
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Bianchi classification
In mathematics, the Bianchi classification provides a list of all real 3-dimensional Lie algebras (up to isomorphism). The classification contains 11 classes, 9 of which contain a single Lie algebra and two of which contain a continuum-sized famil ...
of 3D Lie algebras,
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Bianchi group
In mathematics, a Bianchi group is a group of the form
:\text_2(\mathcal_d)
where ''d'' is a positive square-free integer. Here, PSL denotes the projective special linear group and \mathcal_d is the ring of integers of the imaginary quadratic f ...
, the projective special group of a ring of integers.
Other uses
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Bianchi (surname)
*Bianchi, another name for
urinal
A urinal (, ) is a sanitary plumbing fixture similar to a toilet, but for urination only. Urinals are often provided in men's public restrooms in Western countries (less so in Muslim countries). They are usually used in a standing position. ...
in Asian countries.
*The ''Bianchi battuti'' or
White Penitents, a flagellant movement of the 15th century
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