What does B stand for?

Bacillus

Bacillus is a genus of gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria and a member of the phylum Firmicutes. Bacillus species can be obligate aerobes, or facultative anaerobes. They will test positive for the enzyme catalase when there has been oxygen used or present. Ubiquitous in nature, Bacillus includes both free-living and parasitic pathogenic species.

Bargain

Broad

Back

To back engines is to put them astern To back an oar is to reverse the action of rowing and propel the boat astern To back a sail is to haul its clew to windward To back anchor is to lay another anchor ahead of it, and with a cable or hawser extending tautly between them Wind is said to 'back' when it changes direction anti-clockwise

Birthday

An even shorter way of abbreviating "birthday" than "b-day."

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.

Before

On the forward side of

Bit

The computer term "bit" comes from the phrase "Binary DigIT," which is different than that thing you put around a horse's mouth. A bit is a single digit number in base-2 (a zero or a one) and is the smallest unit of computer data. A full page of text is composed of about 16,000 bits. It is important not to confuse bits with bytes. Both are used to measure amounts of data, but it takes eight bits to make one byte.

Bidirectional

The device accommodates signals traveling either direction though a single channel. OR Any system having two directions. OR Bidirectional Operating in two directions. A bidirec-tional printer can print from left to right and from right to left; a bidirectional bus can transfer signals in both direc-tions between two devices.