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BMI

BMI is the initialism of body mass index.

BMI is the initialism of brain–machine interface.

Meaning of body mass index

Noun

body mass index (plural body mass indexes or body mass indices)

  1. A statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height, used to estimate if a person is underweight or overweight. BMI units are defined as kg/m² ≈ 703*lb/in².
    Synonyms:
    Quetelet index, BMI

Synonyms of BMI

Forms of BMI

pluralBMIs

Questions about BMI

What is BMI the initialism of?
BMI is the initialism of body mass index.

Words near BMI in the dictionary

  1. BMEP
  2. BMEPs
  3. BMF
  4. BMG
  5. BMGs
  6. BMI
  7. BMing
  8. BMIs
  9. BMJ
  10. BMO
  11. BMOC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: BMI (page history and authors); body mass index (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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