B has various meanings in the Shipping category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of B in Shipping.
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.
Shipping(a) A beam placed perpendicular to joists and to which joists are nailed in framing for a chimney, stairway, or other opening. (b) A wood lintel. (c) The horizontal structural member over an opening (for example over a door or window). A structural member, usually horizontal, whose main function is to carry loads transverse to its longitudinal axis.
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