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Audio Help [buhs] Pronunciation Key noun, plural bus·es, bus·ses, verb, bused or bussed, bus·ing or bus·sing.
Audio Help [buhs] Pronunciation Key noun, plural bus·es, bus·ses, verb, bused or bussed, bus·ing or bus·sing. –noun
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | a large motor vehicle, having a long body, equipped with seats or benches for passengers, usually operating as part of a scheduled service; omnibus. |
| 2. | a similar horse-drawn vehicle. |
| 3. | a passenger automobile or airplane used in a manner resembling that of a bus. |
| 4. | any vehicle operated to transport children to school. |
| 5. | a low, movable filing cabinet. |
| 6. | Electricity. Also called bus bar, bus·bar
Audio Help [buhs-bahr] Pronunciation Key. a heavy conductor, often made of copper in the shape of a bar, used to collect, carry, and distribute powerful electric currents, as those produced by generators. |
| 7. | Computers. a circuit that connects the CPU with other devices in a computer. |
| 8. | to convey or transport by bus: to bus the tourists to another hotel. |
| 9. | to transport (pupils) to school by bus, esp. as a means of achieving racial integration. |
| 10. | to travel on or by means of a bus: We bused to New York on a theater trip. |
| Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. |
busbar
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| busbar | |
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| an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits; "the busbar in this computer can transmit data either way between any two components of the system" |
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