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  1. 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.
  2. BDE Brigade
  3. BDL Battlefield Demonstration Laser.
  4. BDP Baseline Data Package
  5. BDPI Baseline Data Package Integration.
  6. BDS Boost Phase Detection System.
  7. BDT Birth-to-Death Tracking.
  8. BDY Burst Detector Y Sensor.
  9. BE OBSOLETE. See Brilliant Eyes. 32
  10. 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.
  11. 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]
  12. Beam Control Technologies associated with controlling the physical properties of high-energy beams and steering the energy transmitted by those beams to the target…
  13. 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…
  14. 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…
  15. 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…
  16. 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)
  17. 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.
  18. 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…
  19. bean A reusable software component that conforms to certain design and naming conventions.
  20. bean-managed persistence The mechanism whereby data transfer between an entity bean's variables and a resource manager is managed by the entity bean.
  21. bean-managed transaction A transaction whose boundaries are defined by an enterprise bean.
  22. BEAR Beam Experiment Aboard Rocket (NPB Technology Validation Experiment).
  23. bearer channel See B channel.
  24. bearer service A telecommunications service that allows transmission of user-information signals between user-network interfaces. See B channel, service access.
  25. BEAST Battle Experiment Area Simulator Tracker.
  26. beating See heterodyne.
  27. BECO Before Engine Cutoff.
  28. BECS Battlefield Electronic CEOI System (See RBECS) .
  29. beeping Synonym paging, radio paging.
  30. Behavior Reaction of an animal to its environment.
  31. Behavioral Biometric Characteristic A biometric characteristic that is learned and acquired over time rather than one based primarily on biology.
  32. Behavioral Outcome What an individual who has completed the specific training module is expected to be able to accomplish in terms of IT security-related job performance.
  33. Behavioral Targeting Ad targeting based on past recent experience and/or implied intent. For example, if I recently searched for mortgages then am later reading a book review…
  34. bel (B) A unit of measure of ratios of power levels, i.e., relative power levels. Note 1: The number of bels for a given ratio of power levels is calculated by…
  35. bell (BEL) character A transmission control character that is used when there is a need to call for user or operator attention in a communications system, and that usually…
  36. Bell Operating Company (BOC) Historically, any of the 22 operating companies that were divested from AT&T by court order. Note: Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co.
  37. Bell- Lapadula Model A formal state transition model of computer security policy that describes a set of access control rules.
  38. Bell-La Padula security model 1. [A] formal state-transition model of a computer security policy that describes a formal set of access controls based on information sensitivity and…
  39. BELLCORE Bell Communications Research, Incorporated.
  40. Benchmarking To measure a process or practice according to specified standards or references
  41. bend loss See macrobend loss, microbend loss.
  42. benign (beh-NINE) Not cancerous. Benign tumors may grow larger but do not spread to other parts of the body.
  43. benign environment [In security, a] nonhostile environment that may be protected from external hostile elements by physical, personnel, and procedural security…
  44. BEP Brilliant Eyes Probe.
  45. BER Abbreviation for bit error ratio.
  46. BERT Acronym for bit error ratio tester.
  47. BES Budget Estimate Submission.
  48. BESAM OBSOLETE. Brilliant Eyes Sensor Algorithm Manager.
  49. BESC BM/C 3 Element Support Center
  50. BESim OBSOLETE. Brilliant Eyes Simulator.
  51. BESim /AT OBSOLETE. Brilliant Eyes Simulator Analysis Tool.
  52. BESim /RT OBSOLETE. Brilliant Eyes Simulator Real-Time.
  53. BEST budget estimate system tools.
  54. Best Bet A document property that designates a document as highly relevant to a specific category or keyword search.
  55. BET Best Estimate Trajectory.
  56. beta test A secondary software product test involving select or voluntary participants before the product is marketed to the general public.
  57. BETRS Abbreviation for basic exchange telecommunications radio service.
  58. between-the-lines entry Unauthorized access to a momentarily inactive terminal, of a legitimate user, assigned to a communications channel.
  59. BEX Abbreviation for broadband exchange.
  60. Beyond The Banner Any advertisement that is not a banner, such as an interstitial or a pop-up ad.
  61. BFAC Blue Forces Analysis Center.
  62. BFTT Battle Force Tactical Training.
  63. BG Battleground
  64. BGM Battle Group Manager.
  65. BGSE Bus Ground Support System (USAF term).
  66. BGV Boost Glide Vehicle.
  67. BI (1) Background Investigation. (2) Briefing to Industry.
  68. bi-directional configuration A continental cluster configuration in which each cluster serves the roles of primary and recovery cluster for different recovery groups.
  69. bi-sync Abbreviation for binary synchronous (bi-sync) communication.
  70. bias (BY-us) In a scientific research study or clinical trial, a flaw in the study design or the method of collecting or interpreting information.
  71. bias distortion Signal distortion resulting from a shift in the bias. 2. In binary signaling, distortion of the signal in which all the significant intervals have…
  72. biased In the generation of pseudorandom or random numbers, pertaining to or describing a condition that renders the more likely occurrence of some numbers or…
  73. BIB Blocked Impurity Band.
  74. BIC Battlefield Integration Center. 33
  75. biconical antenna An antenna consisting of two conical conductors, having a common axis and vertex, and extending in opposite directions.
  76. BID The bid is the price a market maker or broker is willing to pay for a security, such as a stock or bond, at a particular time.
  77. Bid management tool Software or an ASP service used to manage bids on pay-per-click search engines such as Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly Overture) and Google AdWords.
  78. Bidding Bidding means placing a bid price that you are willing to pay as an advertiser on a pay-per-click search engine.
  79. bidirectional asymmetry In data transmission, the condition that exists when information flow characteristics are different in each direction.
  80. bidirectional connection Association established between two higher layer entities for which information is transmitted between both entities. [After T1.629-1999]
  81. bidirectional coupler See directional coupler.
  82. bidirectional symmetry The condition that exists when information flow characteristics are the same in each direction.
  83. BIDS Biological Integrated Detection System.
  84. Biennial Budget The FY86 DoD Authorization Act required the submission of two-year budgets for the Department of Defense beginning with FY88/89.
  85. Bifurcation A split in the delivery path of an e-mail message, which is sent to multiple recipients, so that the different recipients receive different copies of the…
  86. Big Crow A suite of aircraft, helicopters, ground vans, and electronic equipment, which is used to emulate an electronic warfare environment for testing, weapon…
  87. big-endian A common difference between machines is the order in which they store the individual bytes of multi-byte numerical data.
  88. Bigram A bigram is another term for a 2-word phrase. It can also be seen as an N-gram where N=2
  89. BIH French abbreviation for International Time Bureau. See International Atomic Time.
  90. bilateral control Synonym bilateral synchronization.
  91. bilateral synchronization A synchronization control system between exchanges A and B in which the clock at exchange A controls the data received at exchange B and the clock at…
  92. billboard antenna An array of parallel dipole antennas with flat reflectors, usually positioned in a line or plane.
  93. BIM Ballistic Intercept Missile.
  94. binary Mathematical base 2, or numbers composed of a series of zeros and ones. Since zero's and one's can be easily represented by two voltage levels on an…
  95. binary code A code, the elements of which can assume either one of two possible states.
  96. binary digit (bit) See bit.
  97. binary element A constituent element of data that takes either of two values or states. Note: Binary element should not be confused with binary digit.
  98. binary entity See unparsed entity.
  99. binary exponential backoff See truncated binary exponential backoff.
  100. binary large object A discrete packet of binary data that has an exceptionally large size, such as pictures or audio tracks stored as digital data, or any variable or table…