"BST" meaning in English

See BST in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} BST
  1. (historical) Initialism of British Standard Time (between 1968 and 1971). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism Alternative form of: British Standard Time (extra: between 1968 and 1971)
    Sense id: en-BST-en-name-A8dtSij1
  2. Initialism of British Summer Time. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: British Summer Time
    Sense id: en-BST-en-name-RO0K-T4J Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 6 55 18 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 10 55 13 21 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 58 14 22

Noun

Forms: BSTs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} BST (countable and uncountable, plural BSTs)
  1. (computing, graph theory) Initialism of binary search tree. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: binary search tree
    Sense id: en-BST-en-noun-m2F6zRUY Categories (other): Computing, Graph theory Topics: computing, engineering, graph-theory, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  2. (paleontology) Initialism of Burgess Shale Type. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: Burgess Shale Type
    Sense id: en-BST-en-noun-LWgoddi8 Categories (other): English links with redundant wikilinks, Paleontology Topics: biology, history, human-sciences, natural-sciences, paleontology, sciences

Inflected forms

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