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BMA

Specialty Definition: BMA

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BMA may stand for:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "BMA."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BMA

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

BMA

EnglishBermuda Money AuthorityN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Non-Fiction Usage: BMA

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The BMA charges 11 baht per kilogram for waste disposal. (references)

A specific technological need for BMA is for sludge management systems. (references)

Reportedly less than a third of BMA staff assigned to the training classes attended the classes. (references)

Economic History

Bahrain

In an effort to create a secure market the BMA has issued regulations specifically for Islamic banks to prevent and detect institutional weaknesses. (references)

Bahrain

The Government of Bahrain through the BMA actively cooperates with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in the field of combating money laundering. (references)

Bahrain

The BMA is responsible for the licensing, supervision, and regulation of all banks and financial institutions, including information technology operations. (references)

Political Economy

BAHRAIN

The BMA (Bahrain Monetary Agency - Bahrain's central bank) issued its first government bonds in 1977 and its first treasury bills in 1986. The Government of Bahrain occasionally uses the bonds to finance large infrastructure projects. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BMA

"BMA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.42% of the time. "BMA" is used about 114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)68.42%7837,656
Noun (common)17.54%2078,262
Noun (proper)14.04%1687,710
                    Total100.00%114N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: BMA

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "BMA": Bma-bupa.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BMA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bma dialysis

5

bma erc

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: BMA

Derivations

Words containing "BMA": antisubmarine, cabman, clubman, submanager, submanagers, submandibular, submandibulars, submarginal, submarine, submarined, submariner, submariners, submarines, submarining, submarket, submarkets, submaxillaries, submaxillary, submaximal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BMA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bam.

Words within the letters "a-b-m"

-1 letter: ab, am, ba, ma.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-m"
 

+1 letter: ambo, balm, bams, barm, beam, bema, bima, blam, gamb, iamb, jamb, lamb, mabe.

 

+2 letters: abamp, abeam, abmho, abohm, aboma, abysm, album, amber, ambit, amble, ambos, ambry, ameba, balms, balmy, barms, barmy, beams, beamy, bemas, bimah, bimas, blame, blams, bream, embar, embay, gamba, gambe, gambs, iambi, iambs, jambe, jambs, lambs, lamby, limba, mabes, mamba, mambo, maybe, mbira, rumba, samba, sambo, umbra.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BMA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 4D 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    --    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001101 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#77 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004D 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

364735

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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