Biot or BIOT may refer to: Places Biot (crater), a lunar crater, named after Jean-Baptiste Biot Biot, Alpes-Maritimes, a commune in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France Biot, a village in Castelnau-de-Brassac, Midi-Pyrénées, France Le Biot, Haute-Savoie, France Cape Biot, Greenland British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), or British Chagos Islands (BCI), an overseas island territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean People Biot (surname) Fiction Biot ("BIological robOT"), the name given to an extraterrestrial biological robot in the fictional universe of Arthur C. Clarke's novel Rendezvous with Rama (1973). Biot, a fictional world in the DC Comics universe; see Manhunters Biological robot Biot, Biological Optical Transputer Systems, robots in the Phantom 2040 animated series Science Biot number, a dimensionless number used in heat transfer calculations, named after Jean-Baptiste Biot Biot (unit), a unit of current, named after Jean-Baptiste Biot Biot's breathing, an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by groups of quick, shallow inspirations followed by regular or irregular periods of apnea; named by Camille Biot Other uses Biot glider company, see List of gliders (B) See also Canton of Antibes-Biot, France