BET

BET can refer to:

  • Black Entertainment Television, a U.S. cable television station targeted to an African-American demographic
  • BET theory, an adsorption model for gases named after physicists Brunauer, Emmett and Teller
  • Blade element theory to determine the behaviour of propellers
  • British Electric Traction, a British industrial conglomerate
  • Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti (disambiguation), administrative subdivisions of Chad
  • BET-10, Bucharest Exchange Trading index
  • Biotechnia Ellinikon Trikyklon, a Greek vehicle manufacturer that ceased production in 1975
  • Basic Economics Test (BET), a standardized test of economics
  • Bethel Airport in Bethel, Alaska (IATA Code: BET)
  • See Essential tremor for Benign essential tremor

Famous quotes containing the word bet:

    “I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I’d bet I wouldn’t lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.”
    —Berkeley Breathed (b. 1957)

    “I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.”
    —Jane Wagner (b. 1935)

    “Gwine to run all night!
    Gwine to run all day!
    I’ll bet my money on de bobtail nag—
    Somebody bet on de bay.”
    —Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)