Bight
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bight may refer to:
  • bight (geography)
    Bight (geography)
    In geography, bight has two meanings. A bight can be simply a bend or curve in any geographical feature—usually a bend or curve in the line between land and water....

    , recess of a coast, bay, or other curved feature
  • bight (knot)
    Bight (knot)
    In knot tying, a bight is a curved section, slack part, or loop between the two ends of a rope, string, or yarn. The term is also used in a more specific way when describing Turk's head knots, indicating how many repetitions of braiding are made in the circuit of a given knot.-Slipped knot:In order...

    , a curved section, slack part, or loop in rope (used in the terminology of knot-tying)

See also

  • Bite (disambiguation)
    Bite (disambiguation)
    A bite is a wound received from the mouth of an animal or human. Relating to that meaning is* Occlusion , the contact between teeth* Mastication also known as chewingBite or bitten may also refer to:-Film, television and theatre:...

  • Byte
    Byte
    The byte is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, a byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the basic addressable element in many computer...

    , a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications
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