B Ordnance Survey Abbreviation

B has various meanings in the Ordnance Survey category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of B in Ordnance Survey.

Bank

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A group of electrical devices, usually transformers or capacitors, connected in a way to increase capacity or to inter connect as threephase. OR A number of similar pieces of equipment grouped in line and connected, e.g., a bank of engine cylinders, coke ovens, or transformers. OR A mass of soil rising above a digging level. OR Any group of similar electrical devices con-nected together for use as a single device.

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Boulevard

A wide city street usually planted with shade-trees.

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Broad
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Bridge

The crane movement in a direction parallel to the crane runway. Or A network device operating at the first two layers of the OSI model with filtering and forwarding capabilities. Or A collection of adapters and business process in Sterling B2B Integrator that are used to establish communication and send and receive messages between Multi-Enterprise Integrated Gateway and Sterling B2B Integrator.

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Boiler

Any vessel, container or receptacle that is capable of generating steam by the internal or external application of heat. There are two general classes of boilers. I.E., fire-tube and water-tube.

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Brown
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Battery

An apparatus which may comprise a group of two or more cells used for the conversion of chemical energy into electrical energy. Or An electrochemical cell that can be used as a source of direct current at a constant voltage. Or Two or more cells in a container that produce an electrical current when two electrodes within the con-tainer touch an electrolyte.

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Base

That solid ingredient in a paint that is responsible for its body

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Basin

 A large, >200 km, circular depression from the explosive impact of an asteroid or similar sized body on a planet surface, usually rimmed by mountains. A receptacle for runoff (Storm) water.

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Baulk

Beam Beam-shaped piece of timber

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