Bmi

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of body mass index. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "The Federal Obesity Clinical Guidelines define underweight as a BMI of 18 or less, overweight as a BMI of 25 to 29.9 and obesity as a BMI of 30 and above."

  2. 2
    a measure of someone's weight in relation to height; to calculate one's BMI, multiply one's weight in pounds and divide that by the square of one's height in inches; overweight is a BMI greater than 25; obese is a BMI greater than 30 wordnet
  3. 3
    Initialism of brain–machine interface. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

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bcibody mass indexbody mass index

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"Please notify me by e-mail about any bugs found or missing functions that you want to be included in future versions of the BMI calculator."

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