What is "bpi"

n. a measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium [syn: bits per inch]

BPI may refer to:

In business:

• Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, a public high school in Maryland, United States
• Banca Popolare Italiana, an Italian bank merged into Banco Popolare
• Banco Português de Investimento, a Portuguese bank
• Bank of the Philippine Islands, the oldest bank in the Philippines
• Beef Products, Inc., manufacturer of lean finely textured beef, or LFTB.
• BPI Energy, an energy company involved with coalbed methane (CBM) in the Illinois Basin
• Bridge Publications (Scientology), the Church of Scientology's internal publishing division
• British Phonographic Industry, a record industry trade association
• British Power International, a UK-based power sector consultancy
• Belgian Packaging Institute, a Belgian packaging consultancy and testing company

In measurement:

• Base peak intensity, a type of mass chromatogram
• Bits-per-inch or Bytes-per-inch, used to specify the data density of magnetic tape
• Bomb Power Indicator, used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Cold War to detect nuclear explosions
• Brief Pain Inventory, used to measure the change in pain intensity after treatment, for example, with anti-cancer drugs

BPI may also be:

• Brachial plexus injury is an injury caused by damage to the nerves that conducts signals from the spinal cord to the shoulder, arm and hand.
• Baseline Privacy Interface, a MAC layer security service
• Boolean prime ideal theorem, a mathematical theorem
• Business process improvement, a method of improving business processes
• Business process interoperability, a state that exists when a business process can meet a specific objective automatically utilizing essential human labor only
• Bard Prison Initiative, an inmate college degree program offered by Bard College
• Bureau of Plant Industry (Philippines)
• Bureau of Plant Industry, The United States of America (USA).