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bpi

bpi

1 8.9
A measure of how many bits are stored in one inch along a track
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • But despite the numbers (and his ultimate bosses at the BPI bemoaning the levels of piracy highlighted by the report), the news that so many of his fans are pirating his music isn't a disappointment to the 21-year-old.

Examples

  • The BPI, RIAA, and software publishers like Microsoft led the field of organizations requesting Google cut off access to copyrighted information online.

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  • BPI.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Firstly, in order to increase BPI with an acceptable signal to noise ratio, the size of written bits must shrink, so requiring a media with smaller magnetic grains.

  • I read one document where they estimated that to just digitize the Lunar Orbiter 1 images would take 30,000 1200 bpi tapes.

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  • The BPI of this hard drive indicates a high storage density, allowing for more data to be saved.

  • To optimize performance, we need to calculate the BPI for various storage devices and compare their efficiency.

  • In digital storage, a higher BPI means that the disk can hold more data in a smaller physical area.

Synonyms

bits per inch
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  • Specialized
5.1

A measure of how many bits are stored in each inch of a tape or disk

is written as a short abbreviation for the same measure

Surface Forms

bpi singular
bpis plural

Morphology

bpi = bit (transparent) = b + p + i

The abbreviation is a direct initialism of the phrase 'bits per inch' (bit + per + inch), so the meaning is directly recoverable from the base words.

Etymology

The word bpi is short for bit, per, and inch. A bit is a 'small piece of data', per means 'for each', and inch is a 'short unit of length', so bpi tells you how many bits fit in one inch and that explains why it measures how tightly data is packed on a storage track.