bay

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a narrow entrance. A fjord is a particularly steep bay shaped by glacial activity. 海湾是一个凹陷的海岸水体，直接连接到更大的主体水体，如海洋、湖泊或其他海湾。大海湾通常被称为gulf、sea、sound或bight。cove是一个小的圆形海湾，入口狭窄。峡湾是由冰川活动形成的一个特别陡峭的海湾。

A bay can be the estuary of a river, such as the Chesapeake Bay, an estuary of the Susquehanna River. Bays may also be nested within each other; for example, James Bay is an arm of Hudson Bay in northeastern Canada. Some large bays, such as the Bay of Bengal and Hudson Bay, have varied marine geology. 海湾可以是河流的河口，例如切萨皮克湾，苏斯奎哈纳河的河口。间隔也可以相互嵌套；例如，詹姆斯湾是加拿大东北部哈德逊湾的一个分支。一些大型海湾，如孟加拉湾和哈德逊湾，具有不同的海洋地质特征。

Baywatch is an American action drama television series about lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California and Hawaii.

The Bay Area is the urban area surrounding the San Francisco Bay in Northern California.

The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, consisting of the Kantō region of Japan (including Tokyo Metropolis and the prefectures of Kanagawa, Chiba, Saitama, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gunma) as well as the prefecture of Yamanashi of the neighboring Chūbu region. In Japanese, it is referred to by various terms, one of the most common being Capital Region (首都圏, Shuto-ken). A 2016 United Nations estimate puts the total population at 38,140,000. 大东京地区是世界上人口最多的大都会地区，包括日本的关东地区（包括东京大都会和神奈川、千叶、斋玉、茨城、栃木和群马县）以及邻近的清武地区的山梨县。在日语中，它被各种各样的术语所指，其中最常见的是首都圏。根据2016年联合国的估计，总人口为3814万。

Bay is a hair coat color of horses, characterized by a reddish-brown or brown body color with a black point coloration of the mane, tail, ear edges, and lower legs. Bay is one of the most common coat colors in many horse breeds.

In architecture, a bay is the space between architectural elements, or a recess or compartment. The term bay comes from Old French baee, meaning an opening or hole. A bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.

A drive bay is a standard-sized area for adding hardware to a computer. Most drive bays are fixed to the inside of a case, but some can be removed. Over the years since the introduction of the IBM PC, it and its compatibles have had many form factors of drive bays. Four form factors are in common use today, the 5.25″, 3.5″, 2.5″ or 1.8″ drive bays. These names do not refer to the width of the bay itself, but rather to the width of the disks used by the drives mounted in these bays.

A sick bay is a compartment in a ship, or a section of another organisation, such as a school or college, used for medical purposes.

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