ExpertGlossary terms starting with B

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2001. Buy Down When you make an up-front cash payment to reduce your monthly payments on a mortgage loan, it's called a buy down.
2002. Buy Here, Pay Here Financing is usually associated with used car dealers. Installment payments, often made weekly, are paid directly to the dealership, which provides private…
2003. Buy side Institutional money managers, such as mutual funds, pension funds, and endowments, are the buy side of Wall Street.
2004. Buy-and-hold Buy-and-hold investors take a long-term view of investing, generally keeping a bond from date of issue to date of maturity and holding onto shares of a…
2005. Buyback When a company purchases shares of its own publicly traded stock or its own bonds in the open market, it's called a buyback.
2006. Buydown An arrangement whereby the property developer or another third party provides an interest subsidy to reduce the borrower's monthly payments typically in…
2007. Buydown Account An account in which funds are held so that they can be applied as part of the monthly mortgage payment as each payment comes due during the period that an…
2008. Buyer's Agent A buyer's agent represents a buyer in a real estate transaction, negotiating with the seller's agent for a lower price or a contract with more favorable…
2009. Buying Cycle Before making large purchases consumers typically research what brands and products fit their needs and wants.
2010. buzzbait Top-water bait with large, propeller-type blades that churn the water during a retrieve.
2011. buzzing Retrieving a spinnerbait or buzzbait along the water's surface to create a splash effect to resemble a wounded baitfish.
2012. BV Boost Vehicle.
2013. BV (Book Value) The value of individual assets, calculated as actual cost less allowance for any depreciation. Book value may be more or less than current market value.
2014. BVR Beyond Visual Range.
2015. BVT (Borrowed Virtual Time) The BVT scheduler is used to give proportional fair shares of the CPU to domains.
2016. BW body weight.
2017. BWER Abbreviation for Bounded Weak Echo Region; a radar signature within a thunderstorm characterized by a local minimum in radar reflectivity at low levels…
2018. BWL Blackwing's Lair
2019. BY (1) Budget Year. (2) Base Year. 41
2020. by-product Material, other than the principal product, generated as a consequence of an industrial process or as a breakdown product in a living system.
2021. BYD Beyond
2022. Bylaws Bylaws are the self-imposed rules governing an incorporated company. The bylaws cover details such as the structure of the company, what the company's…
2023. bypass A surgical procedure in which the doctor creates a new pathway for the flow of body fluids.
2024. byte Eight bits. A byte is a collection of bits used by computers to represent a character (i.e., "a", "1", or "&").
2025. byte (B) A sequence of contiguous bits (usually 8) considered as a unit. Note: In pre-1970 literature, "byte" referred to a variable-length bit string.
2026. bytecode Java source files are translated by a compiler into bytecodes - the instruction set of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Bytecodes are stored in .