Biot

Biot or BIOT may refer to:

Places

• Biot, Alpes-Maritimes, a commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
• Biot, a village in Castelnau-de-Brassac, Midi-Pyrénées, France
• The BIOT is the British Indian Ocean Territory, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean halfway between Africa and Indonesia

Fiction

• Biot, a fictional world in the DC Comics universe; see Manhunters
• Biot, 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
• Biot, Biological Optical Transputer Systems, robots in the Phantom 2040 animated series

Physics

• Biot (crater), a lunar crater, named after Jean-Baptiste Biot
• Biot number, a dimensionless number used in heat transfer calculations, named after Jean-Baptiste Biot
• Abampere, or Biot, a unit of current, named after Jean-Baptiste Biot

People

• Biot (surname)

Physiology

• Biot's breathing, an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by groups of quick, shallow inspirations followed by regular or irregular periods of apnea; named by Camille Biot

Music

• Biot, an electronic music (psychedelic trance) group that released a two albums Saturation in 1998 and Synthetic Organic in 2000; there was also Saturation Beta which featured some additional remixes that Saturation did not