B
Pronunciation: bē
| 1. | is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, 196, 220.) It is etymologically related to |
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| Noun | 1. | B - the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen |
| 2. |  B - aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil | |
| 3. | B - originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins | |
| 4. | B - a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder Synonyms: atomic number 5, boron | |
| 5. | B - a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels Synonyms: bel | |
| 6. | b - (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter Synonyms: barn | |
| 7. | B - the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet |
| 1. | B - byte. | ||
| 2. | (language) | B - 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. | b - bit or maybe byte (B). |