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B, b

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–noun, plural B's or Bs, b's or bs.
1. the second letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
2. any spoken sound represented by the letter B or b, as in bid, bauble, or daubed.
3. something having the shape of a B.
4. a written or printed representation of the letter B or b.
5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter B or b.

B

 
1. Chess. bishop.
2. black.
3. Photography. bulb (def. 8).

B

 
Symbol.
1. the second in order or in a series.
2. (sometimes lowercase) (in some grading systems) a grade or mark, as in school or college, indicating the quality of a student's work as good or better than average.
3. (sometimes lowercase) (in some school systems) a symbol designating the second semester of a school year.
4. Physiology. a major blood group usually enabling a person whose blood is of this type to donate blood to persons of type B or AB and to receive blood from persons of type O or B. Compare ABO system.
5. Music.
a. the seventh tone in the scale of C major or the second tone in the relative minor scale, A minor.
b. a string, key, or pipe tuned to this tone.
c. a written or printed note representing this tone.
d. (in the fixed system of solmization) the seventh tone of the scale of C major, called ti.
e. the tonality having B as the tonic note.
6. (sometimes lowercase) the medieval Roman numeral for 300.
7. Chemistry. boron.
8. a proportional shoe width size, narrower than C and wider than A.
9. a proportional brassiere cup size, smaller than C and larger than A.
10. Physics. magnetic induction.
11. Electricity. susceptance.
12. a designation for a motion picture made on a low budget and meant as the secondary part of a double feature.
13. a quality rating for a corporate or municipal bond, lower than BB and higher than CCC.

b

 
1. Physics.
a. bar; bars.
b. barn; barns.
2. black.

B.

 
1. bachelor.
2. bacillus.
3. Baseball. base; baseman.
4. bass.
5. basso.
6. bay.
7. Bible.
8. bolivar.
9. boliviano.
10. book.
11. born.
12. breadth.
13. British.
14. brother.
15. brotherhood.

b.

 
1. bachelor.
2. bale.
3. Baseball. base; baseman.
4. bass.
5. basso.
6. bay.
7. billion.
8. blend of; blended.
9. book.
10. born.
11. breadth.
12. brother.
13. brotherhood.

B-

 
U.S. Military.
(in designations of aircraft) bomber: B-29.
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b 1   (bē)   
n.   pl. b's or B's also bs or Bs
  1. The second letter of the modern English alphabet.
  2. Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter b.
  3. The second in a series.
  4. Something shaped like the letter B.
  5. B The second best or second highest in quality or rank: a mark of B on an English theme.
  6. Music
    1. The seventh tone in the scale of C major or the second tone in the relative minor scale.
    2. A key or scale in which B is the tonic.
    3. A written or printed note representing this tone.
    4. A string, key, or pipe tuned to the pitch of this tone.
  7. B One of the four major blood groups in the ABO system. Individuals with this blood group have the B antigen on the surface of their red blood cells, and the anti-A antibody in their blood serum.
b 2  
abbr.  
  1. Physics barn
  2. or B bel
  3. bottom quark
  4. breadth
B 1  
  1. The symbol for the element boron.
  2. The symbol for magnetic flux density.
B 2  
abbr.  
  1. baryon number
  2. Baseball base
  3. Music bass
  4. billion
  5. bishop (chess)
barn   (bärn)   
n.  
  1. A large farm building used for storing farm products and sheltering livestock.
  2. A large shed for the housing of vehicles, such as railroad cars.
  3. A particularly large, typically bare building: lived in a barn of a country house.
  4. Abbr. b Physics A unit of area equal to 10-24 square centimeters, used to measure cross sections in nuclear physics.

[Middle English bern, from Old English berærn : bere, barley; see bhares- in Indo-European roots + ærn, house.]
baryon number  
n.   Abbr. B
A quantum number equal to the difference between the number of baryons and the number of antibaryons in a system of subatomic particles. It remains the same throughout any reaction.
bass 2   (bās)   
n.  
  1. A low-pitched sound or tone.
  2. The tones in the lowest register of an instrument.
    1. A male singing voice of the lowest range.
    2. A singer who has such a voice.
    3. An instrument that sounds within this range.
    4. Abbr. B A vocal or instrumental part written within this range.
  4. An instrument, especially a double bass, that produces tones in a low register.
adj.  
  1. Having a deep tone.
  2. Low in pitch.

[Middle English bas, lowest musical part, from bas, low; see base2.]
bel   (běl)   
n.   Abbr. b or B
Ten decibels.

[After Alexander Graham Bell.]
bish·op   (bĭsh'əp)   
n.  
  1. A high-ranking Christian cleric, in modern churches usually in charge of a diocese and in some churches regarded as having received the highest ordination in unbroken succession from the apostles.
  2. Abbr. B Games A usually miter-shaped chess piece that can move diagonally across any number of unoccupied spaces.
  3. Mulled port spiced with oranges, sugar, and cloves.

[Middle English, from Old English bisceope, from Vulgar Latin *ebiscopus, from Late Latin episcopus, from Late Greek episkopos, from Greek, overseer : epi-, epi- + skopos, watcher; see spek- in Indo-European roots.]
bo·ron   (bôr'ŏn', bōr'-)   
n.   Symbol B
A soft, brown, amorphous or crystalline nonmetallic element, extracted chiefly from kernite and borax and used in flares, propellant mixtures, nuclear reactor control elements, abrasives, and hard metallic alloys. Atomic number 5; atomic weight 10.811; melting point 2,300°C; sublimation point 2,550°C; specific gravity (crystal) 2.34; valence 3. See Table at element.

[bor(ax)1 + (carb)on.]
bo·ron'ic (bə-rŏn'ĭk, bô-) adj.
bottom quark  
n.   Abbr. b
A quark with a charge of - 1/3 and a mass about 10,000 times that of the electron. Also called beauty quark. See Table at subatomic particle.
magnetic flux density  
n.   Symbol B
The amount of magnetic flux through a unit area taken perpendicular to the direction of the magnetic flux. Also called magnetic induction.
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B

B\ (b[=e]) is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 196, 220.) It is etymologically related to p, v, f, w and m, letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. ferre; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr."epta`, Sanskrit saptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.

Note: In Music, B is the nominal of the seventh tone in the model major scale (the scale of C major ), or of the second tone in it's relative minor scale (that of A minor ) . B[flat] stands for B flat, the tone a half step, or semitone, lower than B. In German, B stands for our B[flat], while our B natural is called H (pronounced h["a]).
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Language Translation for : b
Spanish: haya,
German: die Buche,
Japanese: ぶなの木
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B

A Nasdaq stock symbol specifying that the stock is Class B shares of the company.

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Nasdaq-listed securities have four or five characters. If a fifth letter appears, it identifies the issue as other than a single issue of common stock or capital stock.

See also: Nasdaq, Stock Symbol

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b

Used in the dividend column of stock transaction tables in newspapers to indicate payment of a stock dividend in addition to the indicated cash dividend: 1.50b.


B

A low, speculative grade assigned to a debt obligation by a rating agency. Such a rating indicates there is considerable uncertainty as to the ability to pay interest and repay principal over a long period.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
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Main Entry: b
Function: abbreviation
1 bacillus
2 barometric
3 bath
4 Baumé scale
5 behavior
6 bel
7 bicuspid
8 born
9 brother

Main Entry: B
Function: symbol
boron
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b or B
abbr.
blood (used as a subscript)

B
The symbol for the element boron.

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B  
  1. The symbol for boron.
  2. The symbol for magnetic field.

boron   (bôr'ŏn')  Pronunciation Key 
Symbol B
A shiny, brittle, black metalloid element extracted chiefly from borax. It is a good electrical conductor at high temperatures and a poor conductor at low temperatures. Boron is necessary for the growth of land plants and is used in the preparation of soaps, abrasives, and hard alloys. It is also used in the control rods of nuclear reactors as a neutron absorber. Atomic number 5; atomic weight 10.811; melting point 2,300°C; sublimation point 2,550°C; specific gravity (crystal) 2.34; valence 3. See Periodic Table.
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B
1. byte.
2. A systems language written by Ken Thompson in 1970 mostly for his own use under Unix on the PDP-11. B was later improved by Kerninghan(?) and Ritchie to produce C. B was used as the systems language on Honeywell's GCOS-3.
B was, according to Ken, greatly influenced by BCPL, but the name B had nothing to do with BCPL. B was in fact a revision of an earlier language, bon, named after Ken Thompson's wife, Bonnie.
["The Programming Language B", S.C. Johnson & B.W. Kernighan, CS TR 8, Bell Labs (Jan 1973)].
[Features? Differences from C?]
(1997-02-02)
3. A simple interactive programming language by Lambert Meertens and Steven Pemberton. B was the predecessor of ABC.
(ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/languages/B.tar.Z).
["Draft Proposal for the B Language", Lambert Meertens, CWI, Amsterdam, 1981].
4. A specification language by Jean-Raymond Abrial of B Core UK, Magdalen Centre, Oxford Science Park, Oxford OX4 4GA. B is related to Z and supports development of C code from specifications. B has been used in major safety-critical system specifications in Europe, and is currently attracting increasing interest in industry. It has robust, commercially available tool support for specification, design, proof and code generation.
E-mail: .
(1995-04-24)

b
bit or maybe byte (B).
(1996-11-03)

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b
  1. bit
  2. barn
B
  1. baryon number
  2. bass
  3. be (shortwave transmission)
  4. Belgium (international vehicle ID)
  5. billion
  6. bishop
  7. Black (as in personal ads)
  8. boron
  9. byte
  10. magnetic flux density
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