Big or BIG may refer to:
* Big, of great
size
Size in general is the magnitude or dimensions of a thing. More specifically, ''geometrical size'' (or ''spatial size'') can refer to linear dimensions ( length, width, height, diameter, perimeter), area, or volume. Size can also be m ...
or degree
Film and television
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''Big'' (film), a 1988 fantasy-comedy film starring Tom Hanks
* ''
Big!'', a Discovery Channel television show
* ''Richard Hammond's Big'', a television show presented by
Richard Hammond
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''Big'' (TV series), a 2012 South Korean TV series
* ''
Banana Island Ghost'', a 2017 fantasy action comedy film
Music
* ''
Big: the musical'', a 1996 musical based on the film
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Big Records, a record label
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''Big'' (album), a 2007 album by Macy Gray
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"Big" (Dead Letter Circus song)
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"Big" (Sneaky Sound System song)
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"Big" (Rita Ora and Imanbek song)
* "Big", a 1990 song by
New Fast Automatic Daffodils
New Fast Automatic Daffodils (later shortened to New FADS) were an alternative rock group from Manchester, England, active between 1988 and 1995.
History
The band was formed in 1988 by former members of the punk rock group Pariah.Strong, Mart ...
* "Big", a 2021 song by Jade Eagleson from ''
Honkytonk Revival''
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The Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), better known by his stage names the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie, was an American rapper. Rooted in East Coast hip hop and particularly gangsta ...
, an American rapper
Places
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Allen Army Airfield
Allen Army Airfield is a public and military use airport serving Fort Greely and located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Delta Junction, a city in the Southeast Fairbanks Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. ...
(
IATA code), Alaska, US
* BIG, a VOR navigational beacon at
London Biggin Hill Airport
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Big River (disambiguation), various rivers (and other things)
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Big Island (disambiguation), various islands (and other things)
Organizations
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Badan Informasi Geospasial
Geospatial Information Agency ( id, Badan Informasi Geospasial, abbreviation: ''BIG'') is the national mapping agency of Indonesia. BIG was formerly named National Coordinator for Survey and Mapping Agency ( id, Badan Koordinasi Survei dan Pemet ...
, the national mapping agency of Indonesia
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Beijing Institute of Genomics, a Chinese institute for genetic research
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Big Ten Conference
The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representati ...
, an American college sports conference which uses the singular word "B1G" (the numeral "1" replacing the letter "I") within their logo
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Bjarke Ingels Group, a Danish architecture firm
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Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft, an Austrian quasi-governmental company
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Brandweerinformatiecentrum voor gevaarlijke stoffen, a Belgian information centre for dangerous goods
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Breast International Group, for breast cancer research
Fictional characters
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Big the Cat, in the ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' game universe
* Big, a Buddhist monk in the 2003 film ''
Running on Karma''
* Big, in ''
The Perhapanauts
''The Perhapanauts'' is an American comic book series created by writer Todd Dezago and artist Craig Rousseau in 2005.
The first two mini-series, "First Blood" and "Second Chances", were published by Dark Horse Comics, but later in 2008, the ...
'' comic book series
* Big, in ''
Big & Small'' children's TV Series
Other uses
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Kunimaipa language
Kunimaipa is a Papuan language of New Guinea. The varieties are divergent, on the verge of being distinct languages, and have separate literary traditions.
Phonemes
Consonants
Below is a chart of Kunimaipa consonants.
Vowels
* “ i, e, a, ...
(ISO 639-3 code: big), of Papua New Guinea
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Basic income grant
Universal basic income (UBI) is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive an unconditional transfer payment, that is, without a means test or need to work. It would be received independently of a ...
** BIG Namibia, the basic income grant pilot project at
Omitara
Omitara is a settlement in the Steinhausen electoral constituency in the Omaheke Region of Namibia. Together with the adjacent village of Otjivero — the two places are often referred to as one — it had a population of approximately 1,200 as ...
, Namibia
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Operation Big
Operation Big was an operation of the Alsos Mission, the Allied seizure of facilities, materiel, and personnel related to the German nuclear weapon project during World War II. It was tasked with sweeping several targeted towns in the area of sout ...
, an Allied task force assigned to obtain German nuclear secrets during the final days of World War II
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Big (video game player)
Terry Chuong, better known as BIG is an American player who is currently a support for Optic Gaming of the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS). He has been previously known as both Baby and Babyeator.
Early life
Terry ...
, American player Terry Chuong
* a nickname of
Fred T. Long
Fred Thomas "Pop" "Pops" "Big" Long (January 22, 1896 – March 23, 1966) was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and a college football coach. He was the head football coach at four historically black colleges and unive ...
(1896–1966), American Negro league baseball player and college football coach
* , an
HTML element
* BIG, a type of
Non-RAID drive architectures
The most widespread standard for configuring multiple hard disk drives is RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independent Disks), which comes in a number of standard configurations and non-standard configurations. Non-RAID drive architectures a ...
used to concatenate multiple disks to appear as a single big disk
* ''Business is a Game'', a type of
business war games
See also
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Mr. Big (disambiguation)
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The Big Show (disambiguation)
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