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BEV

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  1. Black English Vernacular.
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BeV

or Bev, bev

[bev]
Physics.
  1. billion electron-volts.
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Examples from the Web for bev

Historical Examples

  • Who do you think you're kidding, Bev, you sanctimonious hypocrite—me?

    Masters of Space

    Edward Elmer Smith

  • Bev, would you like to go for a walk with me this afternoon?

    The Golden Road

    Lucy Maud Montgomery

  • And Bev could be kept out of it altogether, until it was over.

    The Breaking Point

    Mary Roberts Rinehart

  • Maybe our princess will be at the end of the trail, Bev, a real princess.

    Vanguards of the Plains

    Margaret McCarter

  • "It's the princess, Bev, the princess we were looking for," I joyously asserted.

    Vanguards of the Plains

    Margaret McCarter

British Dictionary definitions for bev

BeV

abbreviation for (in the US)
  1. gigaelectronvolts (GeV)
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Word Origin

C20: from b (illion) e (lectron) v (olts)
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