Biot

Biot or BIOT may refer to:

• Biot, Alpes-Maritimes, a commune in France
• Biot (crater), a lunar crater
• British Indian Ocean Territory
• Camille Biot (1850-1918), French physician
  • Biot's breathing refers to an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by groups of quick, shallow inspirations followed by regular or irregular periods of apnea.
• Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862), French physicist and mathematician
  • Biot number, a dimensionless number used in heat transfer calculations
  • Another name for the abampere, a unit of current, named after him
• Maurice Anthony Biot (1905–1985), Belgian-American physicist
• Biological robot, a term used in the novel Rendezvous with Rama and its sequels, and later adopted by the authors of The New Jedi Order; see also Cyborg
• Biological Optical Transputer Systems, robots in the Phantom 2040 animated series
• Biot, a fictional world in the DC Comics universe; see Manhunters (comics)