ExpertGlossary terms starting with B

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Baseline Change Request (BCR) A web-based tool that is used to discuss, review, and approve an "engineered product" or other changes to infrastructure components as it is turned over…
Baseline Comparison System (BCS) A current operational system, or a composite of current operational subsystems, which most closely represents the design, operational, and support…
Baseline Conditions The natural and human environmental conditions, which are present prior to implementation of a program and against which impacts are assessed.
Baseline Cost Estimate (BCE) A detailed estimate of acquisition and ownership costs normally required for highlevel decisions.
Baseline Emissions The emissions that would occur without policy intervention (in a business-as-usual scenario).
Baseline profile Used for a survey of the environmental conditions and organisms existing in a region prior to unnatural disturbances.
Baseline Security The minimum security controls required for safeguarding an IT system based on its identified needs for confidentiality, integrity and/or availability…
baseline transfer A complete transfer of a source volume to a mirror volume. The process involves establishing a TCP connection between the mirror and the source and…
Baselining Monitoring resources to determine typical utilization patterns so that significant deviations can be detected.
Baseload The minimum level of electric power demand of a utility, region, or utility customer delivered or required over a given period of time at a steady rate…
Baseload Capacity The power output of a power plant that can be continuously produced.
Baseload Demand The minimum demand experienced by a power plant.
Baseload plant Powerplant normally operated to carry baseload; consequently, it operates essentially at a constant load.
Baseload Power Plant A power plant that is normally operated to generate a base load, and that usually operates at a constant load; examples include coal fired and nuclear…
Baseload Unit An electric power plant, or generating unit within a power plant, that is normally operated continuously to meet the base load of a utility.
Baseloading Running water through a powerplant at a roughly steady rate, thereby producing power at a steady rate.
Basemap The necessary GIS layers properly symbolized to create a common looking digital map of the District of Columbia.
Basement Any area of the building, including any sunken room or sunken portion of a room, having its floor below ground level (subgrade) on all sides.
Basement complex The suite of mostly crystalline igneous and/or metamorphic rocks that generally underlies the sedimentary rock sequence.
Basement rock The oldest rocks in a given area; a complex of metamorphic and igneous rocks that underlies the sedimentary deposits.
BASIC Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
basic access A characterization of a simple standardized combination of access channels that constitute the access arrangements for the majority of ISDN users…
Basic authentication Authentication protocol supported by most Web servers and browsers. Transmits the user name and password in clear text.
basic call A call between two users that does not include additional features (e.g., a plain telephone call).
basic call process (BCP) The sequence of activities used in processing a basic call attempt. [T1.667-1999]
basic component A component that is identifiable at the lowest hierarchical level of specification produced during Detailed Design [ITSEC].
Basic De-duplication performed on a select and limited basis, such as for file names and types, and is usually based on the hash value of the entire electronic document.
Basic Disk A basic disk is a physical disk that can be accessed by MSÃ¢ÂÂDOS and all Windows-based operating systems.
basic exchange telecommunications radio service (BETRS) A commercial service that can extend telephone service to rural areas by replacing the local loop with radio communications.
basic fibroblast growth factor (Abbreviation: BFGF). See: fibroblasts.
basic group See group.
basic mode link control Control of data links by use of the control characters of the 7-bit character set for information processing interchange as given in ISO Standard 646-1983…
basic monitoring Monitoring of AWS-provided metrics derived at a 5-minute frequency.
Basic Patent The first member of a "family" of patents (which may or may not be the first member published).
basic patent or pioneer patent A broad patent that is the first in a given area.
basic rate interface (BRI) An ITU-T Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) multipurpose user interface standard that denotes the capability of simultaneous voice and data…
basic service A pure transmission capability over a communication path that is virtually transparent in terms of its interaction with customer-supplied information. 2.
basic service element (BSE) An optional unbundled feature, generally associated with the basic serving arrangement (BSA), that an enhanced-service provider (ESP) may require or find…
basic serving arrangement (BSA) The fundamental tariffed switching and transmission (and other) services that an operating company must provide to an enhanced service provider (ESP) to…
Basic solution Water solution with more hydroxide ions (OH-) than hydrogen ions (H+); water solutions with pH greater than 7. See acid solution, alkalinity.
basic status In data transmission, the status of the capability of a secondary station to send or receive a frame containing an information field.
Basic Strategy The optimum playing strategy for blackjack when not counting.
Basin : (1) A depression in the Earth's surface that collects sediment. (2) The area of land that drains to a particular river.
Basin Boundary The topographic dividing line around the perimeter of a basin, beyond which overland flow (i.e.; runoff) drains away into another basin.
Basin Lag The time it takes from the centroid of rainfall for the hydrograph to peak.
Basin Recharge Rainfall that adds to the residual moisture of the basin in order to help recharge the water deficit. i.
Basin runoff model Any one of the computer programs that mathematically models basin characteristics to forecast reservoir inflow from rainfall and/or streamflow data.
Basin States Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming.
Basin-fill aquifer See Aquifer-basin fill
basipetal Developing, in sequence, from the apex towards the base. See: acropetal.
Basis Basis is the total cost of buying an investment or other asset, including the price, commissions, and other charges.
Basis point Yields on bonds, notes, and other fixed-income investments fluctuate regularly, typically changing only a few hundredths of a percentage point.
Basis Point (bp) The smallest measure used in quoting yields or returns. One basis point is 0.01% of yield, 100 basis points equals 1%. A yield that changed from 8.
Basis price When you sell a security, such as a stock or bond, or real estate, the price you use to calculate your capital gains is known as your basis price.
Basis Swaps Exchange of fixed price for a floating for a defined basis product (e.g. a Houston Ship Channel – HSC Swap at $1.
basophil A type of white blood cell. Basophils are granulocytes.
Bass Common name for several spiny-finned fishes. Used in this booklet to denote the largemouth bass.
Bass Assassin A brand of soft-plastic jerkbait.
bass boat A design of shallow-drafting boat developed for modern, competitive bass fishing.
Bastion Host A bastion host is typically a firewall implemented on top of an operating system that has been specially configured and hardened to be resistant to attack.
BAT best available treatment technologies.
batch A group of documents treated as a unit for a specific process
batch culture A suspension culture in which cells grow in a finite volume of liquid nutrient medium and follow a sigmoid pattern of growth.
batch distillation A process in which the liquid feed is placed in a single container and the entire volume is heated.
batch fermentation See: batch culture.
Batch Heater This simple passive solar hot water system consists of one or more storage tanks placed in an insulated box that has a glazed side facing the sun.
Batch Process A process for carrying out a reaction in which the reactants are fed in discrete and successive charges.
batch processing The processing of a large amount of data, or multiple records, in a single step.
batch scheduler See the definition for scheduler
batched communications Synonym batched transmission.
batched transmission The transmission of two or more messages from one station to another without intervening responses from the receiving station.
Bates Number Sequential numbering used to track documents and images in production data sets, where each page is identified by a unique production number.
Bates numbering See Bates stamping.
Bates Production Number A bates production number is a tracking number assigned to each page of each document in the production set.
Bates stamping A technique to mark documents with a unique identification code as they are processed Also referred to as Bates numbering.
Bathymetry The science of measuring depths of the oceans, lakes, seas, etc.
batimastat An anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called angiogenesis inhibitors. Batimastat is a matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor.
batracylin (BA-truh-SY-lin) A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer. It may kill cancer cells by causing damage to the DNA.
Batt/Blanket A flexible roll or strip of insulating material in widths suited to standard spacings of building structural members (studs and joists).
Battelle, John Popular search and media blogger who co-founded The Industry Standard and Wired, and authored a popular book on search called The Search.
Batter Inclination from the vertical. A pile driven at an angle to widen the area of support and to resist thrust.
Battery A beating or wrongful physical violence. The threat to use force is an "assault;" the actual use of force is a battery, which usually includes an assault.
Battery capacity The maximum total electrical charge, expressed in ampere-hours, which a battery can deliver to a load under a specific set of conditions.
Battery Energy Storage Energy storage using electrochemical batteries. The three main applications for battery energy storage systems include spinning reserve at generating…
Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) The estimate of damage resulting from the application of military force against a predetermined objective.
Battle Debris Battle Debris are the fragments produced by the hypervelocity collision of an interceptor with a ballistic missile, post-boost vehicle, or reentry…
Battle Group (1) Domains into which the battle space is partitioned. (2) A data processing approach implemented in the battle management computer, which minimizes the…
Battle Integration Preplanning processes and/or real-time coordination that occur to minimize resource wastage between battle tiers or battle partitions. 30
Battle Management (BM) Battle management is comprised of two parts: strategies and the collection of tasks to be performed to successfully implement chosen strategies.
Battle Management Database Battle Management data files including: battle management message file, object file, track file, discrimination file, engagement file, kill assessment…
Battle Management System The hub of the command and control process. It consists of computer hardware and software that integrates elements of the command and control system into…
Battle Management System Configuration The battle management elements currently in the system together with their locations, connectivity and currently activated modes of operation.
Battle Management/ Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (BM/C 4 ) BM/C 4 is a set of automated processes, which respond to the C 2 systems control directives.
Battle Manager The automated set of hardware and software equipment that performs the battle management functions at an element.
Battle Plan One of a set of BMD operational approaches to counter a ballistic missile attack.
Battle Space A characterization of the BMD area of operation generally expressed by Tier (Boost, Post-Boost, Midcourse, and Terminal). (USSPACECOM)
Battle Space Partitioning Assignment of management, sensing, control and firing responsibilities to specific platforms/facilities within the deployed constellation of…
Battlefield Coordination Element An Army liaison provided by the Army component commander to the Air Operations Center (AOC) and/or to the component designated by the joint force…
Battlefield Coordination Element (BCE) An Army liaison provided by the Army component commander to the Air Operations Center (AOC) and/or to the component designated by the joint force…
Battleground An instanced battlefield where players from different factions can fight with each other fairly.