Noun: ba
- (Egyptian mythology) a being's soul or personality that survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food, represented as a bird with a human head
"The tomb paintings depicted the ba returning to the mummy"
- A bachelor's degree in arts and sciences
- Bachelor of Arts, Artium Baccalaurens, AB
- A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite
- barium, atomic number 56
Derived forms: BAs, bas
Type of: baccalaureate, bachelor's degree, metal, metallic element
Part of: barite, barium selenite, barium sulphate, barytes, heavy spar
Encyclopedia: Ba, Ibrahima
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