Bianchi may refer to:
Places
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Bianchi, Calabria
Bianchi ( Calabrian: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Cosenza in the Calabria region of southern Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is ...
, a ''comune'' in the Province of Cosenza, Italy
Manufacturing
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Bianchi Bicycles
F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A., commonly known as Bianchi () is the world's oldest bicycle manufacturing company in existence, having pioneered the use of equal-sized wheels with pneumatic rubber tires. The company was founded in Italy in 1885 and ...
(F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A.), an Italian manufacturer of bicycles, and former manufacturer of motorcycles and automobiles
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Bianchi (motorcycles)
Bianchi motorcycles were made from 1897 to 1967 by F.I.V. Edoardo Bianchi S.p.A., a company which today is a major Italian bicycle manufacturer, and who also produced automobiles from 1900 to 1939. Edoardo Bianchi started his bicycle manufact ...
, a line of Italian motorcycles made from 1897 to 1967
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Autobianchi
Autobianchi () was an Italian automobile manufacturer, created jointly by Bianchi, Pirelli and Fiat in 1955. Autobianchi produced only a handful of models during its lifetime, which were almost exclusively small cars, with the biggest being the sh ...
, an automobile manufacturer co-founded in 1955 by Fiat, Bianchi and Pirelli, before being fully bought by Fiat in 1969.
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Bianchi International a leather product manufacturer based in California
Sport
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Liquigas-Bianchi
Cannondale Pro Cycling Team (), previously known as Liquigas, was an Italian professional road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour.
History
The team was formed at the start of the UCI ProTour in 2005. the team was co-title sponsored by Ital ...
, a cycling team created from the merger of Team Bianchi and Liquigas
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Team Bianchi
Team Bianchi was a makeshift team that was put together from the remnants of the Coast team in time for the 2003 Tour de France.
Team Coast had been unable to pay the salaries of their riders and Bianchi took over the team and the role of tit ...
, a cycling team
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The Bianchi Cup
The Bianchi Cup is a major action pistol tournament in the United States, usually held over three days in late May. Since 1984 the National Rifle Association of America has designated it their National Action Pistol Championship. It is norma ...
, an NRA Action Pistol Championships
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Bianchi (cycling team)
Bianchi was an Italian professional cycling team that was sponsored by and cycled on Bianchi Bicycles. A Bianchi cycling team existed in 1899 which implies that Bianchi was sponsoring professional cycling at a very early stage in the sport. It ...
, an Italian professional cycling team that was sponsored by and cycled on Bianchi Bicycles, 1899-2003
Mathematics
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Bianchi identities In differential geometry, the curvature form describes curvature of a connection on a principal bundle. The Riemann curvature tensor in Riemannian geometry can be considered as a special case.
Definition
Let ''G'' be a Lie group with Lie alge ...
in differential geometry,
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contracted Bianchi identities In general relativity and tensor calculus, the contracted Bianchi identities are:
: \nabla_\rho _\mu = \nabla_ R
where _\mu is the Ricci tensor, R the scalar curvature, and \nabla_\rho indicates covariant differentiation.
These identities are ...
in general relativity,
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Bianchi classification In mathematics, the Bianchi classification provides a list of all real 3-dimensional Lie algebras ( up to isomorphism). The classification contains 11 classes, 9 of which contain a single Lie algebra and two of which contain a continuum-sized fam ...
of 3D Lie algebras,
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Bianchi group
In mathematics, a Bianchi group is a group of the form
:PSL_2(\mathcal_d)
where ''d'' is a positive square-free integer. Here, PSL denotes the projective special linear group and \mathcal_d is the ring of integers of the imaginary quadratic fiel ...
, the projective special group of a ring of integers.
Other uses
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Bianchi (surname)
*Bianchi, another name for
urinal
A urinal (, ) is a sanitary plumbing fixture for urination only. Urinals are often provided in public toilets for male users in Western countries (less so in Muslim countries). They are usually used in a standing position. Urinals can be ...
in Asian countries.
*The ''Bianchi battuti'' or
White Penitents
Confraternities of penitents ( es, CofradÃa Penitencial; it, Fratellanza penitenziale; pt, Irmandade Penitencial) are Christian religious congregations, with statutes prescribing various penitential works; they are especially popular in the ...
, a flagellant movement of the 15th century
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