ExpertGlossary terms starting with B

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  1. baud (Bd) A unit of modulation rate. Note: One baud corresponds to a rate of one unit interval per second, where the modulation rate is expressed as the reciprocal…
  2. Baud Rate The number of times per second a communications channel changes the carrier signal it sends on a phone line.
  3. Baudot code A synchronous code in which five equal-length bits represent one character. Note 1: The Baudot code, which was developed circa 1880, has been replaced by…
  4. Bay A regularly repeating division of a façade, marked by fenestration.
  5. BAY 12-9566 An anticancer drug that belongs to the family of drugs called angiogenesis inhibitors.
  6. BAY 43-9006 A drug used to treat advanced kidney cancer and a type of liver cancer that cannot be removed by surgery.
  7. BAY 56-3722 A substance that is being studied in the treatment of cancer. It belongs to the family of drugs called camptothecins.
  8. BAY 59-8862 A substance that is being studied in the treatment of cancer. It belongs to the family of drugs called taxanes.
  9. Bay Window A projecting form containing windows that rises from the ground or from some other support, such as a porch roof; see also oriel.
  10. Bay-Delta Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta and San Francisco Bay.
  11. BB-10901 A substance that combines a monoclonal antibody (huN901) with an anticancer drug (DM1), and is being studied in the treatment of certain cancers…
  12. BBBD The use of drugs to create openings between cells in the blood-brain barrier. The blood-brain barrier is a protective network of blood vessels and tissue…
  13. BBIC A substance being studied in the prevention of cancer. BBIC is made from soybeans, and is a type of serine proteinase inhibitor.
  14. BBR 2778 A substance that is being studied in the treatment of cancer. It belongs to the family of drugs called antitumor antibiotics. Also called pixantrone.
  15. BBR 3464 A substance that is being studied in the treatment of cancer. It belongs to the family of platinum-based drugs.
  16. BBS Bulletin Board System.
  17. BBS (Bulletin Board System) A computer system or service that users access to participate in electronic discussion groups, post messages and/or download files.
  18. BBSF Brass Board Seeker Flight
  19. BBT Booster Burn Time.
  20. BC (Business Copy) A PVOL or SVOL in an HP StorageWorks XP series disk array that can be split from or merged into a normal PVOL or SVOL.
  21. BCA Basing Concept Analysis.
  22. BCAS (1) Battle Management and C3 Architecture Simulator. (2) Base Contracting Automated System.
  23. BCBL Battle Command Battle Laboratory, Ft. Leavenworth, KS.
  24. BCC A Bcc (blind carbon copy) is a copy of an email message sent to a recipient whose email address does not appear in the message.
  25. Bcc journaling Bcc journaling is message-only journaling with the added ability to capture the Bcc recipients.
  26. BCCE BM/C3 Consolidated Capabilities Effort.
  27. BCD Black Canyon Dam (Emmett, ID).
  28. BCE Battlefield Coordinating Element.
  29. BCFR Battle Command Focused Rotation.
  30. BCG A weakened form of the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis (bacillus Calmette-Guérin) that does not cause disease.
  31. BCG solution (… suh-LOO-shun) A form of biological therapy for superficial (not invasive) bladder cancer.
  32. BCH code Abbreviation for Bose-Chaudhuri-Hochquenghem code. A multilevel, cyclic, error-correcting, variable-length digital code used to correct errors up to…
  33. BCI Abbreviation for bit-count integrity.
  34. BCIS Battlefield Combat Identification System (US Army term).
  35. BCKG Backing- A counterclockwise shift in wind direction (for example, south winds shifting to the east).
  36. bcl-2 antisense oligodeoxynucleotide G3139 (... AN-tee-sents AH-lih-goh-NOO-klee-oh-TIDE ...) A substance being studied in the treatment of cancer.
  37. BCL2 A protein that helps control whether a cell lives or dies by blocking a type of cell death called apoptosis.
  38. BCM Become
  39. BCMNG Becoming
  40. BCO Bend Construction Office (Bend, OR).
  41. BCP Battery Command Post (HAWK).
  42. BCPA Boulder Canyon Project Act (1928).
  43. BCR-ABL fusion gene (... FYOO-zhun JEEN) A gene formed when pieces of chromosomes 9 and 22 break off and trade places.
  44. BCS Boston Computer Society, one of the first associations of PC/Apple users and one of the largest and most active.
  45. BCTP Battle Command Training Program, Ft. Leavenworth, KS
  46. BCV Battle Command Vehicle (US Army term).
  47. BCV (Business Continuity Volume) An EMC Symmetrix term that refers to a logical device on the EMC Symmetrix that may be merged into or split from a regular R1 or R2 logical device.
  48. BCWP Budget Cost of Work Performed.
  49. BCWS Budget Cost of Work Scheduled
  50. BCX-1777 A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of leukemia and lymphoma. It is a type of purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) inhibitor.
  51. BD Blowing Dust
  52. BDA Battle Damage Assessment.
  53. BDAC Bay-Delta Advisory Council.
  54. BDC A rare type of kidney cancer that grows and spreads quickly. It begins in the duct of Bellini in the kidney. Also called Bellini duct carcinoma.
  55. BDD business decision document.
  56. BDE Brigade
  57. BDL Battlefield Demonstration Laser.
  58. BDP Baseline Data Package
  59. BDPI Baseline Data Package Integration.
  60. BDS Boost Phase Detection System.
  61. BDT Birth-to-Death Tracking.
  62. BDY Burst Detector Y Sensor.
  63. BE OBSOLETE. See Brilliant Eyes. 32
  64. BEA U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
  65. Beach Erosion The movement of beach materials by some combination of high waves, currents and tides, or wind.
  66. Beaching The action of water waves by which beach materials settle into the water because of removal of finer materials.
  67. Beacon A line of code placed in an ad or on a web page that helps track the visitor's actions, such as registrations or purchases.
  68. bead-headed midges A type of fly used for fly-fishing.
  69. Beadwall&##8482; A form of movable insulation that uses tiny polystyrene beads blown into the space between two window panes.
  70. beam The main lobe of an antenna radiation pattern. 2. A column of light. Note: A beam may be parallel, divergent, or convergent. [After FAA]
  71. Beam Control Technologies associated with controlling the physical properties of high-energy beams and steering the energy transmitted by those beams to the target…
  72. beam diameter Of an electromagnetic beam, along any specified line that (a) intersects the beam axis and (b) lies in any specified plane normal to the beam axis, the…
  73. beam divergence Of an electromagnetic beam, in any plane that intersects the beam axis, the increase in beam diameter with distance from the aperture from which the beam…
  74. BEAM FILLING The measure of variation of hydrometeor density throughout the radar sampling volume.
  75. Beam Radiation Solar radiation that is not scattered by dust or water droplets.
  76. beam steering Changing the direction of the main lobe of a radiation pattern. Note: In radio systems, beam steering may be accomplished by switching antenna elements or…
  77. BEAM WIDTH Angular width of antenna pattern. Usually that width where the power density is one-half that of the axis beam. (Half-Power or 3 dB point)
  78. beamsplitter A device for dividing an optical beam into two or more separate beams. Note: An example of a beamsplitter is a partially reflecting mirror.
  79. beamwidth 1. In the radio regime, of an antenna pattern, the angle between the half-power (3-dB) points of the main lobe, when referenced to the peak effective…
  80. bean A reusable software component that conforms to certain design and naming conventions.
  81. bean-managed persistence The mechanism whereby data transfer between an entity bean's variables and a resource manager is managed by the entity bean.
  82. bean-managed transaction A transaction whose boundaries are defined by an enterprise bean.
  83. BEAR Beam Experiment Aboard Rocket (NPB Technology Validation Experiment).
  84. Bear grease Slang term used to describe any patching material used to fill cracks and holes or smooth bumps on a track's surface.
  85. Bear market A market in which prices are generally falling.
  86. Bear spread A bear spread is an options strategy that you use when you anticipate a decline in the price of the underlying instrument, such as a stock or an index.
  87. Bear's Cage [Slang], a region of storm-scale rotation, in a thunderstorm, which is wrapped in heavy precipitation.
  88. Bear-trap gate Any of a family of crest gates consisting of two leaves, an upstream leaf hinged and sealed at the upstream edge and a downstream leaf hinged and sealed…
  89. Bearer bond A bearer bond is a certificate that states the security's par value, the rate at which interest will be paid, and the name of the bond's owner.
  90. bearer channel See B channel.
  91. Bearer form When securities are issued as paper certificates and the issuing corporation has no record of the owner, the securities are in bearer form.
  92. bearer service A telecommunications service that allows transmission of user-information signals between user-network interfaces. See B channel, service access.
  93. Bearer Shares Many offshore financial secrecy jurisdictions permit the issuance of bearer shares by corporations chartered in their jurisdiction.
  94. Bearing Wall A wall that carries ceiling rafters or roof trusses.
  95. BEAST Battle Experiment Area Simulator Tracker.
  96. beating See heterodyne.
  97. Beaufort Scale The Beaufort wind scale is a system used to estimate and report wind speeds when no measuring apparatus is available.
  98. Beaver('s) Tail [Slang], a particular type of inflow band with a relatively broad, flat appearance suggestive of a beaver's tail.
  99. Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome A rare, overgrowth disorder in which babies are large at birth and may develop low blood sugar.
  100. beclin 1 (BEH-klin …) A protein involved in autophagy (the process by which a cell destroys proteins and other substances in its cytoplasm).