Meaning of B
| Pronunciation: | | bee, bee
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- [n] aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations
- [n] the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet
- [n] the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen
- [n] (atomic or nuclear physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
- [n] a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
- [n] a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder
- [n] originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins
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| | Synonyms: | | atomic number 5, B complex, B vitamin, bacilli, bacillus, barn, B-complex vitamin, bel, boron, group B, type B, vitamin B, vitamin B complex |
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| | See Also: | | adermin, alphabetic character, aneurin, antiberiberi factor, antipernicious anemia factor, area unit, biotin, blood group, blood type, borax, chemical element, choline, cobalamin, cyanocobalamin, element, eubacteria, eubacterium, folacin, folate, folic acid, genus Bacillus, hepatoflavin, inositol, kernite, lactoflavin, letter, letter of the alphabet, niacin, nicotinic acid, ovoflavin, pantothen, pantothenic acid, pteroylglutamic acid, pteroylmonoglutamic acid, pyridoxal, pyridoxamine, pyridoxine, riboflavin, Roman alphabet, sound unit, square measure, thiamin, thiamine, true bacteria, vitamin B1, vitamin B12, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, vitamin Bc, vitamin G, vitamin H, vitamin M, water-soluble vitamin | |
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The narrator, known only as B, writes about the women in his life, most of whom have dumped him. Finally, he joins Heartbreak Anonymous, where he meets many more women--but things only get more and more crazy.... more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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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)]. 3. A simple interactive programming language by Lambert Meertens and Steven Pemberton. B was the predecessor of ABC. ["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: <[email protected]>. bit or maybe byte (B).
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