BP Business & Finance Abbreviation

Basis Points

Brake Pipe

Bypass

Passage at one side of, or around, a regular passage. Or To eliminate a station or an access unit from a ring network by allowing the data to flow in a path around it. Or A circuit that carries telephone signals from a subscriber to another point without the use of local telephone company circuits. or A secondary passage for fluid flow. or Road joining two parts of an older road to avoid a town or village.

British Petroleum

Back Porch

Base Plate

A steel plate welded to the base of a column which distributes the column loads over an area of foundation large enough to prevent crushing of the concrete and usually secured by anchor bolts.

Budgeting & Planning

Buffer Previous

Bootstrap Protocol

Bootstrap Protocol A protocol used primarily on TCP/IP networks to configure diskless workstations. Rfcs 951 and 1542 define this protocol. DHCP is a later boot configuration protocol that uses this protocol. Or The protocol that provides configuration information from a table. or A protocol that allows a client to find both its Internet Protocol (IP) address and the name of a file from a server on the network.