Director Peter Jackson, holding an Oscar The Oscar is an award that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, an organization of more than 6,000 members, presents to celebrate achievements in motion pictures, also known as movies or films.
* Bis, a musical term and a little-used Interlingua word meaning encore, again, or twice (see Musical terminology#B). * Bis-, a prefix meaning two in some contexts of chemical nomenclature * bis, a suffix meaning second version (revision) of a standard (like the V.32 bis modem standard) Re: What does bis mean?
While the term chemical substance is a precise technical term that is synonymous with chemical for chemists, the word chemical is used in general usage in the English speaking world to refer to both (pure) chemical substances and mixtures (often called compounds), and especially when produced or purified in a laboratory or an industrial process.