Bundle

Bundle or Bundling may refer to:

In marketing:

  • Product bundling, a marketing strategy that involves offering several products for sale as one combined product
  • Bundling (fundraising), when donations from many individuals are collected by one person and presented to the recipient
  • Bundling (public choice), a similar concept to product bundling that occurs in electoral republics

In mathematics:

  • Bundle (mathematics), a generalization of a fiber bundle dropping the condition of a local product structure
  • Fiber bundle, a topology space that looks locally like a product space
See also: Category:Fiber bundles

In medicine:

  • Bundle of His, a collection of heart muscle cells specialized for electrical conduction
  • Bundle of Kent, an extra conduction pathway between the atria and ventricles in the heart

In Computing:

  • Bundle (NEXTSTEP), a type of directory in NEXTSTEP and Mac OS X
  • Bundle (software distribution), a package containing a software and everything it needs to operate

Other uses:

  • Bundle adjustment, a photogrammetry/computer vision technique
  • Bundle conductor (power engineering)
  • Bundle of rights (property law)
  • Bundle theory (philosophy)
  • Bundled payment, a method for reimbursing health care providers
  • Bundles (album), a 1975 album by Soft Machine, including a song of the same title
  • Bundling (packaging), the process of using straps to bundle up items
  • Bundling (tradition), the traditional practice of wrapping one person in a bed accompanied by his/her courter
  • Optical fiber bundle, a cable consisting of a collection of fiber optics
  • Eileen "Bundle" Brent, an Agatha Christie character

Famous quotes containing the word bundle:

    “There is Lowell, who’s striving Parnassus to climb
    With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme,
    He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders,
    But he can’t with that bundle he has on his shoulders,
    The top of the hill he will ne’er come nigh reaching
    Till he learns the distinction ‘twixt singing and preaching;
    James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

    We styled ourselves the Knights of the Umbrella and the Bundle; for, wherever we went ... the umbrella and the bundle went with us; for we wished to be ready to digress at any moment. We made it our home nowhere in particular, but everywhere where our umbrella and bundle were.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    In the quilts I had found good objects—hospitable, warm, with soft edges yet resistant, with boundaries yet suggesting a continuous safe expanse, a field that could be bundled, a bundle that could be unfurled, portable equipment, light, washable, long-lasting, colorful, versatile, functional and ornamental, private and universal, mine and thine.
    Radka Donnell-Vogt, U.S. quiltmaker. As quoted in Lives and Works, by Lynn F. Miller and Sally S. Swenson (1981)