Bulk can refer to:
Industry
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Bulk cargo
Bulk cargo is Product (business), product cargo that is transported packaging, unpackaged in large quantities.
Description
Bulk cargo refers to material in either liquid or granular, particulate (as a mass of relatively small solids) form, ...
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Bulk carrier
A bulk carrier or bulker is a merchant ship specially naval architecture, designed to transport unpackaged bulk cargo—such as Grain trade, grain, coal, ore, steel coils, and cement—in its cargo holds. Since the first specialized bulk carrie ...
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Bulk liquids
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Bulk mail
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Bulk material handling
Bulk material handling is an engineering field that is centered on the design of equipment used for the handling of dry materials. Bulk materials are those dry materials which are powdery, granular or lumpy in nature, and are stored in heaps.. Ex ...
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Bulk pack,
packaged bulk materials/products
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Bulk purchasing
Bulk purchasing or mass buying is the purchase of much larger quantities than the usual, for a unit price that is lower than the usual.
Wholesaling is selling goods in large quantities at a low unit price to retail merchants. The wholesaler will a ...
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Baking
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Bulk fermentation
Straight dough is a single-mix process of making bread. The dough is made from all fresh ingredients, and they are all placed together and combined in one kneading or mixing session. After mixing, a bulk fermentation rest of about 1 hour or lon ...
, the period after mixing when dough is left alone to ferment in bulk, meaning before division to final weights.
Physics
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Bulk density
In materials science, bulk density, also called apparent density, is a material property defined as the mass of the many particles of the material divided by the bulk volume. Bulk volume is defined as the total volume the particles occupy, includ ...
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Bulk modulus
The bulk modulus (K or B or k) of a substance is a measure of the resistance of a substance to bulk compression. It is defined as the ratio of the infinitesimal pressure increase to the resulting ''relative'' decrease of the volume.
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brane cosmology
Brane cosmology refers to several theories in particle physics and cosmology related to string theory, superstring theory and M-theory.
Brane and bulk
The central idea is that the visible, four-dimensional spacetime is restricted to a brane i ...
and
M-theory
In physics, M-theory is a theory that unifies all Consistency, consistent versions of superstring theory. Edward Witten first conjectured the existence of such a theory at a string theory conference at the University of Southern California in 1 ...
(see also the
AdS/CFT correspondence
In theoretical physics, the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence (frequently abbreviated as AdS/CFT) is a conjectured relationship between two kinds of physical theories. On one side are anti-de Sitter spaces (AdS) that are used ...
), the bulk is a hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which the eleven dimensions of our
universe
The universe is all of space and time and their contents. It comprises all of existence, any fundamental interaction, physical process and physical constant, and therefore all forms of matter and energy, and the structures they form, from s ...
(the three dimensions we can see, plus time, plus the seven extra dimensions that we can't see but
M-theory
In physics, M-theory is a theory that unifies all Consistency, consistent versions of superstring theory. Edward Witten first conjectured the existence of such a theory at a string theory conference at the University of Southern California in 1 ...
theorizes are all around us) may exist.
People
*Mike Waters, known as Bulk, British professional wrestler with the
UK Pitbulls
The UK Pitbulls are a professional wrestling tag team that consists of brothers Bulk (Mike Waters, born 1978) and Big Dave (Dave Waters, born 1971). They previously held a number of titles in the United Kingdom, United States, as well as 11 coun ...
*The Bulk, the main character of
The Amazing Bulk
''The Amazing Bulk'' is a 2012 American independent live-action/animated direct-to-video superhero film directed and co-produced by Lewis Schoenbrun, starring Jordan Lawson, Shevaun Kastl, Terence Lording, Juliette Angeli, Jed Rowen and Randal ...
Fiction
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Bulk and Skull
Farkas "Bulk" Bulkmeier and Eugene "Skull" Skullovitch are fictional characters in the ''Power Rangers'' universe. They appeared as permanent cast members from ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' until '' Power Rangers in Space''. Bulk was a recurr ...
, a pair of characters in the ''Power Rangers'' universe
Places
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Bulk, Lancashire, area of Lancaster, England
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Bülk Lighthouse, outside Kiel, Germany
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