BMP

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Basic Multilingual Plane
BMP

   <text, standard> (BMP) The first plane defined in
   {Unicode}/{ISO 10646}, designed to include all {scripts} in
   active modern use.  The BMP currently includes the Latin,
   Greek, Cyrillic, Devangari, hiragana, katakana, and Cherokee
   scripts, among others, and a large body of mathematical,
   {APL}-related, and other miscellaneous {characters}.  Most of
   the {Han} {ideographs} in current use are present in the BMP,
   but due to the large number of ideographs, many were placed in
   the {Supplementary Ideographic Plane}.

   Unicode home (http://unicode.org).

   (2002-03-19)

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

bmp

   <file format, graphics> {Microsoft Windows} {bitmap} format.
   Bmp files may use {run-length encoding}.

   This is the only graphics format where {compression} actually
   enlarges the file.  The format is widely used nonetheless.

   [Format?]

   (1998-03-14)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

BMP
       Basic Multilingual Plane (UCS)

from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)

BMP
       Bean Managed Persistence (Java, EJB, CMP)