Technology terms starting with B

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  1. bounds The limits of an array or collection. In Java, the lower limit is always zero. In the case of an array, the upper bound is one less than then length of…
  2. BP See Base pair.
  3. BPAC Budget Program Activity Code.
  4. BPBM Boost Phase Battle Management.
  5. BPHIT OBSOLETE. Brilliant Pebbles Hover Interceptor Test.
  6. BPI (1) Boost Phase Intercept. (2) Boost Phase Interceptor.
  7. BPI (Bits Per Inch) BPI measures data densities in disc and magnetic tape systems.
  8. BPI/E Boost Phase Intercept/ Exoatmospheric Intercept
  9. BPL Boost Phase Leakage.
  10. BPM Business Program Manager (Acquisition management term).
  11. BPPBS Biennial Planning, Programming and Budget System.
  12. BPS bits per second.
  13. BPT See Business, professional, and technical services transactions (BPT)
  14. BPT ATD Boost Phase Tracking Advanced Technology Demonstration.
  15. BPTF OBSOLETE. Brilliant Pebbles Task Force.
  16. BPTS Boost Phase Tracking System.
  17. BPX Battle Plan Execution.
  18. BRAC Base Realignment And Closure. 38
  19. braid An essential part of many fiber-optic cable designs, consisting of a layer of woven yarn.
  20. Branch An addition to the main pipe in a piping system.
  21. branch instruction Stores a new instruction address into the program counter. The effect of this is the next instruction to be fetched will not usually be the one…
  22. branch point A network point where two or more possible routes through different intermediate networks from the origination network to destination network physically…
  23. branching network A network used for transmission or reception of signals over two or more channels.
  24. branching repeater A repeater with two or more outputs for each input.
  25. Brand The emotional response associated with your company and/or products. A brand is built through controlling customer expectations and the social…
  26. Branded Keywords Keywords or keyword phrases associated with a brand. Typically branded keywords occur late in the buying cycle, and are some of the highest value and…
  27. Brassboard Configuration An experimental device (or group of devices) used to determine feasibility and to develop technical and operational data.
  28. BRDI Baseline Recompetition Document Integration
  29. Breach 1. The breaking or violating of a law, right or duty, either by an act or omission. 2. The failure to carry out any condition of a contract.
  30. breadboard An assembly of circuits or parts used to prove the feasibility of a device, circuit, system, or principle with little or no regard to the final…
  31. Breadboard Configuration An experimental device (or group of devices) used to determine feasibility and to develop technical data.
  32. Breadcrumb Navigation Navigational technique used to help search engines and website users understand the relationship between pages.
  33. break Distinct variation in otherwise constant stretches of cover, structure, or bottom type. Basically anything that "breaks up" the underwater terrain.
  34. break interval In dial-pulse signaling, that portion of the dial pulse in which the pulsing circuit is in its high-impedance condition. [T1.405-1989] 2.
  35. break out To separate the individual fibers or buffer tubes of a fiber-optic cable for the purpose of splicing or installing optical connectors.
  36. break statement A statement used to break out of a loop, switch statement or labeled block. In all cases, control continues with the statement immediately following the…
  37. break-even analysis A technique used to show relationships among costs, revenues, and outputs to identify the point at which revenues equal costs
  38. break-out box A testing device that permits a user to access individual leads of an interface cable, using jumper wires, in order to monitor, switch, or patch the…
  39. Break-Up (1) In detection by radar, the separation of one solid return into a number of individual returns which correspond to the various objects or structure…
  40. breakline A linear feature that defines and controls the surface behavior of a tin in terms of smoothness and continuity.
  41. Breakout Stock prices fluctuate constantly, but each stock typically moves within a fairly narrow range.
  42. breakout cable A multifiber fiber-optic cable design in which individual fibers, usually tight-buffered, are surrounded by separate strength members and jackets, which…
  43. breakout kit A kit of materials, composed of an outer jacket in which is contained a strength member consisting of a bundle of usually aramid yarn, which jacket and…
  44. Breakpoint A breakpoint is the level at which your account balance in a mutual fund company or the size of a new investment in the company's funds qualifies you to…
  45. Brewster's angle For a plane electromagnetic wavefront incident on a plane boundary between two dielectric media having different refractive indices, the angle of…
  46. Brewster's law See Brewster's angle.
  47. BRI Abbreviation for basic rate interface.
  48. brick An informal name for a hand-held radiotelephone unit. Synonyms personal terminal, radio personal terminal.
  49. brick wall filter A low-pass filter with a steep cut-off (such as 20 dB/octave or greater), such that a negligible amount of higher frequency information passes.
  50. bridge A filter paper or other substrate used as a wick and support structure for a plant tissue in culture when a liquid medium is used.
  51. bridge lifter A device that electrically or physically removes bridged telephone pairs. Note: Relays, saturable inductors, and semiconductors are used as bridge lifters.
  52. Bridge Page See Gateway Page.
  53. bridge transformer Synonym hybrid coil.
  54. bridge-to-bridge station A ship station operating in the port operations service in which messages are restricted to navigational communications and which is capable of operation…
  55. bridged ringing The part of a signaling system in which ringers associated with a particular line are connected across that line.
  56. bridged tap Any portion of a loop that is not in the direct talking path between the central office and the service user's terminating equipment.
  57. bridgehead server A nominated server that acts as a message transfer point between Exchange 2000 routing groups.
  58. bridging connection A parallel connection used to extract some of the signal energy from a circuit, usually with negligible effect on the normal operation of the circuit.
  59. bridging loss At a given frequency, the loss that results when an impedance is connected across a transmission line.
  60. bridging method A method that provides a bridge between the methods of a class's public interface and its private implementation.
  61. Brightness A basic visual sensation describing the amount of light that appears to emanate from an object, or more precisely, the luminance of an object
  62. Brilliant Eyes (BE) OBSOLETE Successor to Space-Based Surveillance and Tracking System (SSTS). BE is also known as the Space and Missile Tracking System (SMTS), and is now…
  63. Brilliant Eyes Probe (BEP) OBSOLETE. The BE Probe is a concept for a ground launched probe version of the BE space-based satellite, analogous to the obsolete GSTS, that would…
  64. Brilliant Pebbles (BP) OBSOLETE. Proliferated singlet space-based weapon with autonomous capability. (Now a subset of the Air Forces Advanced Interceptor Technologies (AIT)…
  65. Brillouin diagram See Brillouin scattering.
  66. Brillouin scattering In a physical medium, scattering of lightwaves, caused by thermally driven density fluctuations.
  67. Brin, Sergey Co-founder of Google. See also: Wikipedia: Sergey Brin
  68. Broad Concept of Operations (BCO) An approved USSPACECOM planning concept for a complete SDS. It is a toplevel concept that is detailed in specific Phase Concepts of Operations.
  69. Broad Match Broad Match is a form of "keyword matching" and refers to the matching of a search listing or advertisement to selected keywords in any order.
  70. Broadband Communications of high capacity and usually of multimedia content.
  71. broadband exchange (BEX) A communications switch capable of interconnecting channels having bandwidths greater than voice bandwidth.
  72. broadband ISDN (B-ISDN) An Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) offering broadband capabilities. Note 1: B-ISDN is an ITU-T proposed (originally a CCITT-proposed) service…
  73. broadband system See [in analog technology] wideband.
  74. broadcast To send a "datagram" to multiple destinations simultaneously.
  75. broadcast meeting Invitees are notified about a meeting but do not need to respond to the invitation.
  76. broadcast operation The transmission of signals that may be simultaneously received by stations that usually make no acknowledgement.
  77. broadcasting satellite space station A space station in the broadcasting-satellite service (sound broadcasting). [NTIA]
  78. broadcasting service A radiocommunication service in which the transmissions are intended for direct reception by the general public.
  79. broadcasting station A station in the broadcasting service. [NTIA] [RR]
  80. broadcasting-satellite service A radiocommunication service in which signals transmitted or retransmitted by space stations are intended for direct reception by the general public.
  81. broadside antenna Synonym billboard antenna.
  82. Broken One of four health states of a storage group copy. Broken indicates that the system has detected a condition that prevents replication and replay.
  83. Broken Link A hyperlink which is not functioning. A link which does not lead to the desired location.
  84. brouter A combined bridge and router that operates without protocol restrictions, routes data using a protocol it supports, and bridges data it cannot route.
  85. Browser An application, such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, used to view and navigate the World Wide Web and other Internet resources.
  86. browsing [The] act of searching through information-system (IS) storage to locate or acquire information without necessarily knowing of the existence or the format…
  87. BRP Basic Research Plan. 39
  88. brute force attack An attack by a malicious user or malicious software on a computer or operating system to find a secret password or a symmetric encryption key by guessing…
  89. Brute Force Password Attack A method of accessing an obstructed device through attempting multiple combinations of numeric and/or alphanumeric passwords.
  90. BRV Ballistic Reentry Vehicle.
  91. BS Blowing Snow
  92. BSA Abbreviation for bovine serum albumin.
  93. BSD Battlefield Situation Display.
  94. BSD UNIX Berkeley Software Distribution UNIX. A version of UNIX developed by the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley.
  95. BSE Abbreviation for bovine spongiform encephalopathy. See protein aceous infectious particle.
  96. BSI Abbreviation for British Standards Institution.
  97. BSL Base Support Listing.
  98. BSTS See Boost Surveillance and Tracking System.
  99. BT (Binary Translation) Technique used by virtualization softwares to translate instruction set guest OSes send to virtual hardware in instruction set understandable by physical…
  100. BT ATD Booster Typing Advanced Technology Demonstration.