Bottom may refer to:

Anatomy and sex

* Bottom (BDSM), the partner in a BDSM who takes the passive, receiving, or obedient role, to that of the top or dominant *

Bottom (sex) In human sexuality, top, bottom, and versatile are roles during sexual activity, especially between two men. A ''top'' is usually a person who penetrates, a ''bottom'' is usually one who receives penetration, and someone who is ''versatile'' ...

, a term used by gay couples and BDSM *

Buttocks The buttocks (singular: buttock) are two rounded portions of the exterior anatomy of most mammals, located on the posterior of the pelvic region. In humans, the buttocks are located between the lower back and the perineum. They are composed ...

or bottom, part of the anatomy on the posterior of the pelvic region of apes and humans, and many other bipeds or quadrupeds

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Bottom'' (TV series), a British sitcom and stage show * "Bottom", a song by Puddle of Mudd from '' Life On Display'' * "Bottom", a song by Tool from '' Undertow'' *

Nick Bottom Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' who provides comic relief throughout the play. A weaver by trade, he is famously known for getting his head transformed into that of a donkey by the elusive Puck. Bott ...

, a character from Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' * ''The Bottoms'' (novel), a 2000 novel by Joe R. Lansdale * ''Bottoms'', a 1966 film by

Yoko Ono Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up i ...

Geography

* Bottom (valley), the floor of a valley **

List of geographical bottoms Bottom is used in the name of several geographical features: *Bottom, North Carolina, small unincorporated community in the Stewarts Creek Township of northern Surry County, North Carolina *Bottom Bay, on the southeast coast of Barbados, between C ...

, list of geographical features called "bottom" * Bottomland (freshwater ecology), low-lying alluvial land adjacent to a river *

Foggy Bottom Foggy Bottom is one of the oldest late 18th- and 19th-century neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., located west of the White House and downtown Washington, in the Northwest quadrant. It is bounded roughly by 17th Street NW to the east, Rock C ...

, a neighborhood in Washington, D.C. * Lower Bottoms, Oakland, California or The Bottoms, a neighborhood in Oakland, California, U.S. * St. Paul's Bottoms or The Bottoms, a neighborhood in Shreveport, Louisiana *

Seabed The seabed (also known as the seafloor, sea floor, ocean floor, and ocean bottom) is the bottom of the ocean. All floors of the ocean are known as 'seabeds'. The structure of the seabed of the global ocean is governed by plate tectonics. Most of ...

, the floor of the ocean or ocean bottom * Stream bed, the channel bottom of a stream, river or creek *

The Bottom The Bottom (formerly ''Botte'') is the capital and largest town of the island of Saba, the Caribbean Netherlands, and is the first stop on the way from Saba's Port in Fort Bay towards the rest of the island. In 2001, it had 462 inhabitants of th ...

, capital of the island of Saba *

The Bottom (neighborhood in Dallas, Texas) The Tenth Street Freedman's Town is a historic African American community in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas. A freedmen's town is a community settled by former slaves who were emancipated during and after the American Civil War. The freed ...

, a neighborhood in the Tenth Street Freedman's Town, Dallas, Texas, U.S. * The Bottoms, an area in

Franklinton (Columbus, Ohio) Franklinton is a Neighborhoods in Columbus, Ohio, neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, just west of Downtown Columbus, Ohio, its downtown. Settled in 1797, Franklinton is the first American settlement in Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin County, and was ...

, United States

Mathematics

* Bottom, or ''falsum'', a

contradiction In traditional logic, a contradiction occurs when a proposition conflicts either with itself or established fact. It is often used as a tool to detect disingenuous beliefs and bias. Illustrating a general tendency in applied logic, Aristotle's ...

in logic and Boolean algebra *

Bottom element In mathematics, especially in order theory, the greatest element of a subset S of a partially ordered set (poset) is an element of S that is greater than every other element of S. The term least element is defined dually, that is, it is an elem ...

, in lattice theory and related branches of mathematics *

Bottom type In type theory, a theory within mathematical logic, the bottom type of a type system is the type that is a subtype of all other types. Where such a type exists, it is often represented with the up tack (⊥) symbol. When the bottom type is empty ...

, in type theory (the bottom element in the subtype relation) * The symbol

up tack The up tack or falsum (⊥, \bot in LaTeX, U+22A5 in Unicode) is a constant symbol used to represent: * The truth value 'false', or a logical constant denoting a proposition in logic that is always false (often called "falsum" or "absurdum"). * T ...

(⊥), used to represent these concepts

People

Bottom (surname) Bottom is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anthony Bottom (born 1951), former member of both the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Black Liberation Army (BLA) * Arthur Bottom (1930–2012), English footballer *Bob Bottom, OAM, ...

, people with the surname Bottom *

Bottoms (surname) Bottoms is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: * Benjamin A. Bottoms, U.S. Coast Guardsman who died during a rescue attempt in Greenland *Joseph Bottoms, American actor *Keisha Lance Bottoms, American politician and mayor of Atlanta ...

, people with the surname Bottoms

Other uses

* Bottom (technical analysis), a chart pattern in the technical analysis of securities *

Bottom quark The bottom quark or b quark, also known as the beauty quark, is a third-generation heavy quark with a charge of − ''e''. All quarks are described in a similar way by electroweak and quantum chromodynamics, but the bottom quark has exce ...

, a subatomic particle *

Trousers Trousers (British English), slacks, or pants are an item of clothing worn from the waist to anywhere between the knees and the ankles, covering both legs separately (rather than with cloth extending across both legs as in robes, skirts, and ...

Shorts Shorts are a garment worn over the pelvic area, circling the waist and splitting to cover the upper part of the legs, sometimes extending down to the knees but not covering the entire length of the leg. They are called "shorts" because they ...