BOP or Bop may refer to:

Animals and plants

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Government and law

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Music

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Music styles

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  • Bebop, often shortened to "bop", an early modern jazz developed in the 1940s
  • Hard bop, a style of jazz music that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music

Songs and albums

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Places

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Science and technology

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  • Balance of plant, the supporting components and auxiliary systems of a power plant
  • Basic oxygen process, a method of steelmaking
  • Best Operating Practice (used by Thames Water to describe operation of water and waste water treatment plants in the UK)
  • BIOS operation (bop), used as noun and verb, a technique to transition from 16-bit virtual x86 mode to 32-bit protected mode utilized by Microsoft's NTDOS
  • Bleeding on probing, expression used by dentists to signify gingival (gum) bleeding on mechanical stimulation by a probe
  • Blowout preventer, a large valve used in oil or natural gas drilling
  • Bond order potential, a form of interatomic potential used, for example, in molecular dynamics simulations
  • BOP reagent, Benzotriazole-1-yl-oxy-tris-(dimethylamino)-phosphonium hexafluorophosphate

Transportation

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Other uses

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