Bt Definition

bētē
noun
A Gram-positive, rod-shaped soil bacterium (Bacillus thuringiensis) having spores that produce a toxic protein that kills only specific insect larvae as they are feeding.
Webster's New World
This toxic protein, used as an insecticide and in genetic engineering to produce insect-resistant crops.
Webster's New World
abbreviation
Bachelor of Theology.
American Heritage
Baronet.
Webster's New World

(Internet, text messaging) But.

Wiktionary

Banten, a province of Indonesia.

Wiktionary

The ccTLD for Bhutan as assigned by the IANA.

Wiktionary

Origin of Bt

  • From New Latin B(acillus) t(huringiēnsis) species name

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bt Sentence Examples

  • The circular space on each side of the basi-temporal (bt.) is the opening of the anterior tympanic recess.

  • Then the displacement at 0 will take place in a direction perpendicular to 0 1 0, and lying in the plane Z0 1 0; and, if 1' be the displacement at 0, reckoned positive in the direction nearest to that in which the incident vibrations are reckoned positive, = 4?y (1 +cos 0) sin 4 f' (bt - r).

  • Draw the tangents at A and B, meeting at T; draw TV parallel to the axis of the parabola, meeting the arc in C and the chord in V; and M draw the tangent at C, meeting AT and BT in a and b.

  • To find the angular acceleration A, draw kI, bt respectively parallel to and at right angles to the link KB.

  • Let APB be a semicircle, BT the tangent at B, and APT a line cutting the circle in and BT at T; take a point Q on AT so that AQ always equals PT; then the locus of Q is the cissoid.

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