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bbl

The English word “bbl” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Volumes of crude oil pumped, stored, or sold (in bulk).
  2. Barrels (casks) transported or sold, or the volume that they represent.
  3. Venturis in carburetion.

Etymology

Often thought to be modified from bl for barrel (b⸺l), reflecting a way of abbreviating that was used especially in previous centuries (compare do for ditto), wherein a doubled letter indicated plural count, as also with p.=page but pp.=pages and l.=line but ll.=lines; this method was used not only in English but also in scholarly New Latin and other modern languages heavily affected thereby,…

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