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bhp

bhp is the initialism of brake horsepower.

Meaning of brake horsepower

Noun

brake horsepower (countable and uncountable, plural brake horsepowers, abbreviation bhp or b.hp.)

  1. The useful horsepower of an engine as measured at its drive shaft.

Noun capitalized: BHP

BHP (plural BHPs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of bacteriohopanepolyol.

Proper noun capitalized: BHP

BHP

  1. BHP Group Ltd, one of the world's largest mining companies and the largest company in Australia (by market capitalization, as of 2025); (in former eras) any of its predecessor companies, back through the original Broken Hill Proprietary Company.
    • The directive was made this week by China Mineral Resources Group Co. [CMRG] to halt buying BHP’s Jingbao fines, a low-grade ore, said people with knowledge of the order, asking not to be named discussing private matters. The ban applies to seaborne cargoes and inventories at Chinese ports, they...2025 November 20, Alfred Cang, Katharine Gemmell, “China’s Giant Iron Ore Trader Widens Ban to Second BHP Ore”, in Bloomberg Markets
  2. The station code of Bolpur Shantiniketan railway station in India.

Forms of bhp

pluralBHPs

Words that rhyme with bhp

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Questions about bhp

What does bhp mean?
Bhp means BHP Group Ltd, one of the world's largest mining companies and the largest company in Australia (by market capitalization, as of 2025); (in former eras) any of its predecessor companies, back through the original Broken Hill Proprietary Company.
What is bhp the initialism of?
Bhp is the initialism of brake horsepower.
What part of speech is bhp?
Bhp can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of bhp?
The plural of bhp is BHPs.

Words near bhp in the dictionary

  1. bhops
  2. BHOs
  3. Bhotekoshi
  4. bhoy
  5. bhoys
  6. bhp
  7. BHPs
  8. bhringaraj
  9. bhringaraja
  10. bhringraj
  11. bhringraja

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bhp (page history and authors); BHP (page history and authors); brake horsepower (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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