Bight
Encyclopedia
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:...
- ByteByteThe 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