BX, Bx, and similar may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

Barnard's Express Barnard's Express, later known as the British Columbia Express Company or BX, was a pioneer transportation company that served the Cariboo and Fraser-Fort George Regional District, British Columbia, Fraser-Fort George regions in British Columbia, ...

, a transportation company in British Columbia, Canada *

Base exchange An exchange is a type of retail store found on United States military installations worldwide. Once similar to trading posts, today they resemble modern department stores or strip malls. The terminology varies by armed service; some examples inc ...

, a store operated by the Army, Naval, and Air Force Exchange Service *

Berne eXchange BX Swiss (formerly Berne eXchange, abbreviated: BX) is a Swiss stock exchange operated by BX Swiss AG (formerly Berner Börsenverein). It has its main office in Zurich and is subject to supervision by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Autho ...

, the stock exchange of Bern, Switzerland *

Blackstone Group Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. It was founded in 1985 as a mergers and acquisitions firm by Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman, who had previously worked together at Lehman ...

(NYSE stock ticker symbol BX) *

BookCrossing BookCrossing (also known as BC, BCing or BXing) is defined as the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be 'caught' by others, who may then do likewise. The term is derived frobookcrossing.com a free online book community which was f ...

, a program for sharing second-hand books *

Air Busan Air Busan Co., Ltd., operating as Air Busan () is a low-cost airline based in Busanjin-gu, Busan, South Korea. It is a subsidiary of Asiana Airlines. The airline began its operation in 2007 as Busan International Airlines Company (); it launched ...

(established 2007) (IATA airline code BX) * Coast Air (1998–2008) (IATA airline code BX)

Vehicles

* ''BX'' (sternwheeler), a boat owned by Barnard's Express *

Citroën BX The Citroën BX is a large family car which was produced by the French manufacturer Citroën from 1982 to 1994. In total, 2,315,739 BXs were built during its 12-year history. The hatchback was discontinued in 1993 with the arrival of the Xantia, ...

, an automobile *

Bionix AFV The Bionix (BX) is a family of tracked Singaporean armoured fighting vehicles developed by ST Engineering Land Systems. Intended to augment the Singapore Army's aging M113 armoured personnel carriers, it is the first indigenous armoured vehicl ...

, an infantry fighting vehicle produced in Singapore

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Biopsy A biopsy is a medical test commonly performed by a surgeon, interventional radiologist, an interventional radiologist, or an interventional cardiology, interventional cardiologist. The process involves the extraction of sampling (medicine), sample ...

, the extraction of cells or tissues to determine the presence or extent of a disease * Bithorax (part of

bithorax complex The Bithorax complex (BX-C) is one of two ''Drosophila melanogaster'' homeotic gene complexes, located on the right arm of chromosome 3. It is responsible for the differentiation of the posterior two-thirds (posterior thorax and each abdominal s ...

), a genetic mutation in flies

Computing

* BX register, a general-purpose 16-bit X86 register * BitchX, an IRC client *

Intel 440BX The Intel 440BX (codenamed Seattle) is a chipset from Intel, supporting Pentium II, Pentium III, and Celeron processors. It is also known as the i440BX and was released in April 1998. The official part number is 82443BX. Features The 440BX origi ...

, chipset for Pentium II/Pentium III/III and Celeron processors * Bidirectional transformations

Other uses in science and technology

* BX cable, a genericized trademark term for a type of AC armoured electrical cable *

BeppoSAX BeppoSAX was an Italian–Dutch satellite for X-ray astronomy which played a crucial role in resolving the origin of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most energetic events known in the universe. It was the first X-ray mission capable of simultaneousl ...

catalog, also called ''SAX'' and ''1SAX'' *

Brix Degrees Brix (symbol °Bx) is a measure of the dissolved solids in a liquid, based on its specific gravity, and is commonly used to measure dissolved sugar content of a solution. One degree Brix is 1 gram of sucrose solute dissolved in 100 grams ...

(°Bx), measurement unit of the dissolved sugar-to-water mass ratio of a liquid

Places

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

, World Meteorological Organization country code **

Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...

( French: Bruxelles), the capital of the nation *

BeNeLux The Benelux Union (; ; ; ) or Benelux is a politico-economic union, alliance and formal international intergovernmental cooperation of three neighbouring states in Western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The name is a portma ...

, a politico-economic union of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg *

Berryessa, San Jose, California Berryessa is a district of San Jose, California, located in North San Jose. The district is named after the Berryessa family of California, Berryessa family, a prominent Californio family of the Bay Area which historically owned most of the a ...

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...

, France *

The Bronx The Bronx ( ) is the northernmost of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It shares a land border with Westchester County, New York, West ...

, one of the five boroughs of The City of New York, New York, U.S. (also for many institutions, usually in the borough, and named for it) *

Brunei Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with ...

(LOC MARC code and obsolete FIPS Pub 10-4 and NATO country codes)

Other uses

BX convoys The BX convoys were a World War II series of convoys across the Gulf of Maine from Boston to Halifax. These convoys were escorted by the Western Local Escort Force (WLEF) of the Royal Canadian Navy to protect coastal shipping in transit betwe ...

of World War II ships *

Battlecross Battlecross was an American extreme metal band from Canton, Michigan. The band has described their sound as "Blue Collar Thrash Metal". To date, they have released four albums through their label, Metal Blade Records. History The band was ...

, a rock band from Michigan {{DEFAULTSORT:Bx