BIN or Bin may refer to:

Abbreviations

* Badan Intelijen Negara, Indonesia's state intelligence agency * Bank Identification Number * Belgian Institute for Normalization * Believe in Nothing *

Black Information Network Black Information Network (BIN) is a Broadcast network, radio network and content brand owned by iHeartMedia. Launched on June 30, 2020, it is an all-news radio network of stations targeting African American communities, carrying mostly important ...

, a radio network *

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in South Asia. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one form or another ...

(FIFA country code: BIN), the portions of present-day India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Myanmar that were under British colonial rule * Business identification number

Physical containers

Waste container A waste container, also known as a dustbin, rubbish bin, trash can, garbage can, wastepaper basket, and wastebasket, among other names, is a type of container intended to store waste that is usually made out of metal or plastic. The words "r ...

* Recycling bin *

Bulk box A bulk box, also known as a bulk bin, skid box, pallet box, bin box, gaylord, or octabin, is a pallet-size box used for storage and shipping of bulk or packaged goods. Bulk boxes can be designed to hold many different types of items such as pl ...

, a pallet-size box used for storage and shipping of bulk quantities *

Coal bin A coal bin, coal store or coal bunker is a storage container for coal awaiting use or transportation. This can be either in domestic, commercial or industrial premises, or on a ship or locomotive tender, or at a coal mine or processing plant. ...

People

Bin Uehara was a Japanese music (''ryūkōka'') singer and soldier. He was known for using naniwa-bushi's ''kobushi'' vocalism in Japanese popular music. He was killed in action during the eastern New Guinea campaign during the Pacific War. Life Uehara w ...

, a Japanese singer *, Japanese footballer and manager * Bianca Bin, a Brazilian actress * BIN (Band), Japanese musical group * Paulo Bin (born 1941), Brazilian footballer

Places

* Bin (city), a settlement in Xia- and Shang-dynasty China *

Bin, Iran Bin (, also Romanized as Bīn) is a village in Tavabe-e Kojur Rural District, Kojur District, Nowshahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in Wes ...

, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran * Bin County, Shaanxi in Xianyang, Shaanxi, China *

Bin County, Heilongjiang Bin County, or Binxian (), is a county of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang. Its seat is about east of central Harbin. It borders Bayan Cou ...

in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Science and mathematics

* an

interval (mathematics) In mathematics, a real interval is the set of all real numbers lying between two fixed endpoints with no "gaps". Each endpoint is either a real number or positive or negative infinity, indicating the interval extends without a bound. A real ...

, a

mesh Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences. It serves as a thesaurus of index terms that facilitates searching. Created and updated by th ...

, or another partition of a topological space, used in different applications fields: **

Histogram A histogram is a visual representation of the frequency distribution, distribution of quantitative data. To construct a histogram, the first step is to Data binning, "bin" (or "bucket") the range of values— divide the entire range of values in ...

bin **

Data binning Data binning, also called data discrete binning or data bucketing, is a data pre-processing technique used to reduce the effects of minor observation errors. The original data values which fall into a given small interval, a '' bin'', are replace ...

, a data pre-processing technique **

Bin (computational geometry) In computational geometry, the bin is a data structure that allows efficient region queries. Each time a data point falls into a bin, the frequency of that bin is increased by one. For example, if there are some Cartesian Coordinate System, ...

, space partitioning data structure to enable fast region queries and nearest neighbor search

Other uses

Sin bin The penalty box or sin bin (sometimes called the bad box, or simply bin or box) is the area in ice hockey, rugby union, rugby league, roller derby and some other sports where a player sits to serve the time of a given penalty, for an offence not ...

, an informal name for a penalty box in sports * In

Arabic personal names Arabic names have historically been based on a long naming system. Many people from Arabic-speaking and also non-Arab Muslim countries have not had given, middle, and family names but rather a chain of names. This system remains in use througho ...

, "son of", e.g. in "Hamad bin Khalid bin Hamad" (a variant of ''ibn'') *

Bini language Edo (; English: , West African English: /ˈedo/), also known as Bini, is the language spoken by the Edo people in Edo State, Nigeria. It was the primary language of the Benin Empire and its predecessor, Igodomigodo for thousands of years. It ...

(ISO code: bin), a language of Edo State, Nigeria * /bin, a folder in the

Unix filesystem In Unix and operating systems inspired by it, the file system is considered a central component of the operating system. It was also one of the first parts of the system to be designed and implemented by Ken Thompson in the first experimental ...

* Bin, a location in a cellar where wine is stored; see

glossary of wine terms The glossary of wine terms lists the definitions of many general terms used within the wine industry. For terms specific to viticulture, winemaking, grape varieties, and wine tasting, see the topic specific list in the "''See also''" section belo ...