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Becton, Dickinson & Co. – ‘8-K’ for 1/24/23 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Monday, 1/30/23, at 2:25pm ET   ·   For:  1/24/23   ·   Accession #:  10795-23-15   ·   File #:  1-04802

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 1/30/23  Becton, Dickinson & Co.           8-K:5,9     1/24/23   12:522K

Current Report   —   Form 8-K

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML    123K 
 2: EX-10.1     Material Contract                                   HTML    127K 
 7: R1          Cover Page                                          HTML     71K 
10: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     12K 
 8: XML         XBRL Instance -- bdx-20230124_htm                    XML     58K 
 9: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      9K 
 4: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- bdx-20230124_def                 XML     54K 
 5: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- bdx-20230124_lab                      XML    121K 
 6: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- bdx-20230124_pre               XML     55K 
 3: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- bdx-20230124                          XSD     17K 
11: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               18±    24K 
12: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000010795-23-000015-xbrl      Zip     54K

‘EX-101.DEF’   —   XBRL Definitions — bdx-20230124_def

This Exhibit is an XBRL XML File.

                                                                                                                                                                                
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