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Babbage is a machine-oriented high-level language for the GEC 4080 series of computers supplied by the manufacturer in place of any assembler.
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Babbitt metal is an antifriction metal alloy originally based on tin, antimony, and copper (50 parts tin, 5 parts of antimony and 1 part copper) but now often including lead. Various types of Babbitt alloy are produced, and used mainly in bearings. Babbitt metal was invented with the view of as far as possible obviating friction in the bearings of journals, cranks, axles, etc by Isaac Babbit, a goldsmith of Taunton, Massachusetts.
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In computing, a back door is a hole in the security of a system deliberately left in place by designers or maintainers. The motivation for this is not always sinister; some operating systems, for example, come out of the box with privileged accounts intended for use by field service technicians or the vendor's maintenance programmers. Historically, back doors have often lurked in systems longer than anyone expected or planned, and a few have become widely known. The infamous RTM worm of late 1988, for example, used a back door in the BSD UNIX 'sendmail(8)' utility.
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A back saw is a small handsaw with the blade stiffened by an extra metal section running along its back edge.
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In computing terminology, a backbone is a high-speed network that connects several powerful computers. In the USA, the backbone of the Internet is often considered to be the NSFNet, a government funded link between a handful of supercomputer sites across the country.
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Backbone Facilities are a transmission facility designed to interconnect tributary facilities from clusters of dispersed users or devices; the viewpoint of what is a 'backbone' can range from a single building's wiring to an intercontinental network.
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In computing, a backdoor is a secret point of entry to a computer program or computer. Legitimate backdoors may be created by a system developer, but more commonly they are used by hackers for penetrating a computer over a network. The most popular method of establishing a backdoor to a computer is through the 'Backdoor Mail Spam' in which an unsolicited email is sent to a victim with a
backdoor program attached to it. This backdoor program will be disguised (a Trojan) pretending to be perhaps a computer game or a screensaver. Further, the email may pretend to originate from a trusted source, such as the mail program of the network or a well-known computer company. When the recipient executes the attachment, the backdoor program installs itself secretly onto the computer and monitors a predefined port on the network waiting to allow a hacker in 'through the back door'.
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Backer by Cordes Development is a Windows utility for synchronizing and updating directories and files via a network, disk, infra-red, or cable. Backer keeps all your computers and disks up-to-date. With Backer you can: synchronize files within a work team; synchronize your notebook before you travel and your desktop afterwards; transfer files between your office and your home; backup your day's or week's work; keep current copies of system files on disk to be prepared for a crash.
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In computing, background describes a process or program that while it is running the operator can run other processes or programs, type at the keyboard etc.
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In electronics, background noise is the aggregate of random noise in a sound-reproducing system, arising from such causes as radio interference, valve and other circuit noise, record scratch, etc. and not from the signal being reproduced.
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Background radiation is low intensity ionising radiation which is always present in the environment. Most background radiation comes from natural sources such as cosmic rays and some types of rocks (for example granite in the Earth's crust); the rest - about 13 per cent - comes from artificial sources. Of the artificial sources the one that contributes most to the
background radiation is the medical use of radioactive materials: other sources are the nuclear industry and fallout from weapons tests, television screens and luminous paint. When the radiation from a specific source is measured, the background radiation must be deducted from the result to make it accurate.
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In mechanics, the term backlash describes the distance through which one part of connected machinery, such as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear. The term also describes the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
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A baffle is a rigid structure, such as a sheet of sound-insulating material, used to improve the distribution of sound waves.
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Baily's Beads is a phenomenon attending eclipses of the sun, the unobscured edge of which appears discontinuous and broken immediately before and after the moment of complete obscuration. It is classed as an effect of irradiation.
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Baking soda is a popular name for sodium bicarbonate.
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A balance is an instrument employed for determining the quantity of any substance equal to a given weight. Balances are of various forms; in that most commonly used a horizontal beam rests so as to turn easily upon a certain point known as the centre of motion. From the extremities of the beam, called the centres of suspension, hang the scales; and a slender metal tongue midway between them, and directly over the centre of motion, indicates when the beam is level. The characteristics of a good balance are: 1st, that the beam should rest in a horizontal position when the scales are either empty or loaded with equal weights; 2nd, that a very small addition of weight put into either scale should cause the beam to deviate from the level, which property is denominated the sensibility of the balance; 3rd, that when the beam is deflected from the horizontal position by inequality of the weights in the scales, it should have a tendency speedily to restore itself and come to rest in the level, which property is called the stability of the balance.
To secure these qualities the arms of the beam should be exactly similar, equal in weight and length, and as long as possible; the centres of gravity and suspension should be in one straight line, and the centre of motion immediately above the centre of gravity; and the centre of motion and the centres of suspension should cause as little friction as possible. The centre of motion ought to be a knife-edge; and if the balance requires to be very delicate, the centres of suspension ought to be knife-edges also. If the balance have no tendency to one position more than another, when the scales are either loaded, empty, or off altogether, it is a proof that the centres of gravity and motion coincide, and the remedy is to lower the centre of gravity. If the beam is disturbed by a small addition of weight to either scale, and exhibits no tendency to resume the horizontal position, we may infer that the centre of gravity is above the centre of motion.
If it require a considerable excess of weight to deflect the beam from the level, we may infer either that there is too much friction at the centre of motion, or that the centre of gravity is too low. If two weights are found to be in equipoise, one being in each scale, and if, when that which is in the one scale is put into the other, there is no longer equilibrium, then we may infer that the arms of the beam are of unequal lengths. Eor purposes of accuracy, balances have occasionally means of raising or depressing the centre of gravity, of regulating the length of the arms, etc, and the whole apparatus is not unfrequently enclosed in a glass case, to prevent the heat from expanding the arms unequally, or currents of air from disturbing the equilibrium.
Of the other forms of balance, the Roman balance, or steelyard, consists of a lever moving freely upon a suspended fulcrum, the shorter arm of the lever having a scale or pan attached to it, and the longer arm, along which slides a weight, being graduated to indicate quantities. It was commonly used for weighing loaded carts, for luggage at railway-stations, etc. A variety of this, the Danish balance, has the weight fixed at the end of the lever, the fulcrum being movable along the graduated index. The spring-balance shows the weight of articles by the extent to which they draw out or compress a spiral spring. It is of service where a high degree of exactness is not required, and finds application in the dynamometer for measuring the force of machinery.
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Balata is a latex derived from the Bullet-Tree. It has properties intermediate between gutta-percha and India-rubber, making it more suitable for certain industrial purposes. It has been used in the USA as a chewing material for many years, and is used to make chewing-gum.
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A ball-cock is a kind of self-acting stop-cock opened and shut by means of a hollow sphere or ball of metal or plastic attached to the end of a lever connected with the cock. Such cocks are often employed to regulate the supply of water to cisterns. The ball floats on the water in the cistern by its buoyancy, and rises and sinks as the water rises and sinks, shutting off the water in the one case and letting it on in the other.
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A ballistic pendulum was an apparatus formerly employed for ascertaining the velocity of military projectiles, and consequently the force of fired gunpowder. A piece of ordnance was fired against bags of sand supported in a strong case or frame suspended so as to swing like a pendulum. The arc through which it vibrated was shown by an index, and the amount of vibration formed a measure of the force or velocity of the ball.
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Ballistics is the science of the motion of projectiles. The term is chiefly used in connection with firearms.
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Balneology is the science of the medicinal effects of bathing and mineral springs.
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Balun is a shortened term derived from BALanced to UNbalanced transformer. A
balun is often used in radio to allow the connection of an unbalanced cable to a balanced aerial system.
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A band saw is a power-operated saw consisting of an endless toothed metal band running over and driven by two wheels.
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Bandoline is a gummy substance produced from gum tragacanth, quince seeds, Irish moss or Iceland moss, with perfume added and formerly used by 19th century and early 20th century hairdressers to make the hair glossy and to fix it in position.
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In computing, bandwidth is the maximum load capacity of a data channel.
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A banner exchange is a free service designed to help website owners advertise and promote their website. By inserting a small piece of code supplied by the exchange program onto their web page, a member will display banner adverts from other exchange members, and in return, their advertising banners are displayed across the exchange network.
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Barilla was the commercial name for the impure carbonate and sulphate of soda formerly imported from Spain and the Levant. It is the Spanish name of a plant (Salsola Soda), from the ashes of which and from those of others of the same genus the crude alkali was obtained. On the shores of the Mediterranean the seeds of the plants from which it was obtained were regularly sown near the sea, and these, when at a sufficient state of maturity, were pulled up, dried, and burned in bundles in ovens or in trenches. The ashes, while hot, were continually stirred with long poles, and the saline matter they contain formed, when cold, a solid mass, almost as hard as stone. To obtain the carbonate of soda it was only requisite to lixiviate the barilla in boiling water, and evaporate the solution. British barilla or kelp is a still more impure alkali formerly obtained from burning seaweeds.
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Barium is a silver-white, malleable, toxic, bivalent metallic element of the alkaline-earth group that occurs only in combination - it is strongly reactive to air and has to be stored under mineral oil. It has the symbol Ba. Barium dissolves in water, but does not dissolve in sulphuric acid, rather the sulphuric acid causes a protective layer of barium sulphate to form around the barium.
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A Barker's Mill is an apparatus based upon the principal of the hydraulic tourniquet. It consists of a vessel containing water and free to rotate about vertical axis. Near its base are provided outlet pipes through which the water is discharged horizontally, in a direction tangential to a circle having its centre at the axis of rotation of the vessel. The mill operates upon the reaction principle, the unbalanced pressures at the discharge orifices causing the vessel to rotate. A horizontal turbine wheel having curved outlet pipes around its periphery acts upon this principle.
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A Barker's mill or Scottish turbine is a hydraulic machine on the principle of what is known as the hydraulic tourniquet. This consists of an upright vessel free to rotate about a vertical axis, and having at its lower end two discharging pipes projecting horizontally on either side and bent in opposite directions at the ends, through which the water is discharged horizontally, the direction of discharge being mainly at right angles to a line joining the discharging orifice to the axis. The backward pressures at the bends of the tubes, arising from the two issuing jets of water, cause the apparatus to revolve in an opposite direction to the issuing fluid.
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The barograph is a type of barometer in which the readings are automatically recorded on a chart.
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Barology is the science of weight or gravity.
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A barometer is a device for measuring atmospheric pressure and thus determining changes in the weather, the height of mountains, and other phenomena. The basic principle behind the barometer is the discovery in 1643 by Torricelli, that atmospheric pressure might be counterpoised by a column of mercury standing as high in proportion to the thirty-four feet that water in similar circumstances stands, as the specific gravity of water is to that of mercury. Pascal confirmed the conclusions of Torricelli in 1645; six years afterwards it was found by Perrier that the height of the mercury in the Torricellian tube varied with the weather; and, in 1665, Boyle proposed to use the instrument to measure the height of mountains. Various types of barometer have been invented, among the most common being the cistern barometer, Gay-Lussac's barometer and the aneroid barometer.
The common or cistern barometer, which is a modification of the Torricellian tube, consists of a glass tube 33 inches in length and about one-third of an inch in diameter, hermetically sealed at the top, and having the lower end resting in a small vessel containing mercury, or bent upwards and terminating in a glass bulb partly occupied by the mercury and open to the atmosphere. The tube is first filled with purified mercury, and then inverted, and there is affixed to it a scale to mark the height of the mercurial column, which comparatively seldom rises above 31 or sinks below 28 inches. In general the rising of the mercury presages fair weather, and its falling the contrary, a great and sudden fall being the usual presage of a storm. The weather-points on the ordinary barometric scale are as follows: - At 28 inches, stormy weather; 28.5, much rain or snow; 29, rain or snow; 29.5, changeable; 30 fair or frost; 30.5, settled fair or frost; 31. very dry weather or hard frost. Certain attendant signs, however, have also to be noted: thus, when fair or foul weather follows almost immediately upon the rise or fall of the mercury, the change is usually of short duration; while if the change of weather be delayed for some days after the variation in the mercury, it is usually of long continuance. The direction of the wind has also to be taken into account.
The siphon barometer consists of a bent tube, generally of uniform bore, having two unequal legs, the longer closed, the shorter open. A sufficient quantity of mercury having been introduced to fill the longer leg, the instrument is set upright, and the mercury takes such a position that the difference of the levels in the two legs represents the pressure of the atmosphere. In the best siphon barometers there are two scales, one for each leg, the divisions on one being reckoned upwards, and on the other downwards from an intermediate zero point, so that the sum of the two readings is the difference of levels of the mercury in the two branches.
The wheel barometer is the one that was most commonly used for domestic purposes before the computer age. It was far from being accurate, but it was often preferred for ordinary use on account of the greater range of its scale, by which small differences in the height of the column of mercury were more easily observed. It usually consisted of a siphon barometer, having a float resting on the surface of the mercury in the open branch, a thread attached to the float passing over a pulley, and having a weight as a counterpoise to the float at its extremity. As the mercury rose and fell the thread and weight turned the pulley, which again moved the index of the dial.
The mountain barometer was a portable mercurial barometer with a tripod support and a long scale for measuring the altitude of mountains. To prevent breakage, through the oscillations of such a heavy liquid as mercury, it was usually carried inverted, or it was furnished with a movable basin and a screw, by means of which the mercury could be forced up to the top of the tube. for delicate operations, such as the measurement of altitudes, the scale of the barometer was furnished with a nonius or vernier, which greatly increased the minuteness and accuracy of the scale. For the rough estimate of altitudes the following rule was sufficient: - As the sum of the heights of the mercury at the bottom and top of the mountain is to their difference, so is 52,000 to the height to be measured, in feet. In exact barometric observations two corrections require to be made, one for the depression of the mercury in the tube by capillary attraction, the other for temperature, which increases or diminishes the bulk of the mercury. In regard to the measurement of heights the general rule is to subtract the ten-thousandth part of the observed altitude for every degree of Fahrenheit above 32 degrees.
In the aneroid barometer, as its name implies (the name coming from the Greek a, not, neros, liquid), no fluid was employed, the action being dependent upon the susceptibility to atmospheric pressure shown by a flat circular metallic chamber from which the air had been partially exhausted, and which has a flexible top and bottom of corrugated metal plate. By an ingenious arrangement of springs and levers the depression or elevation of the surface of the box was registered by an index on the dial, by which means it was also greatly magnified, being given in inches to correspond with the mercurial barometer. Aneroids are, however, generally less reliable than mercurial barometers, with which they were recommended to be frequently compared.
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Barometry is the science of observing barometer readings.
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In nuclear physics, a baryon is a heavy subatomic particle made up of three indivisible elementary particles called quarks. The baryons form a subclass of the hadrons and comprise the nucleons (protons and neutrons) and hyperons.
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A bascule bridge is one which rotates upon a horizontal axis. The roadway is hinged to allow it to be drawn up to allow the passage of vessels.
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In chemistry, base is a term applied to those compound substances which unite with acids to form salts. The most important bases are oxides of metals, and when brought in contact with acids their oxygen combines with the hydrogen of the acid to form water. They are divided into several sections, of which the most important are the alkalies. These substances are the hydrates of the so-called alkaline metals, and may be compared to water in which part of the hydrogen is replaced by a metallic radicle. Potash, for instance, is the hydrate of the metal potassium. The alkalies are readily soluble in water, restore the blue colour of reddened litmus, and give a green with red cabbage, dahlia, and other vegetable blues, and convert the yellow of turmeric into a brownish red. Most of the bases, however, are insoluble in water, and without any effect on vegetable colours.
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Basys is a client-server computer system used by almost all broadcasting organisations for storing and manipulating newsroom information including: wire stories, show scripts, assignment lists and contact files. The main database runs on a UNIX file server (usually two or three mirrored computers) supporting a number of client workstations which are either dumb terminals (VT) or DOS/ Windows based PCs. The system is used by journalists to write the news stories which are then broadcast. Basys is very configurable, and many organisations use customised versions - the BBC's version being called 'Edit'.
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A bathometer is an apparatus invented by William Siemens in 1861 to measure the depth of water without submerging a sounding line. Its action depends on the diminution of the effect of gravitation on the surface of the water as compared with its effect on the earth, owing to the mass of water (of less density) which replaces earth (of greater density); which is duly registered.
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Bathybius was a name given by Huxley to a supposed organism found in some preserved examples of deep-sea ooze obtained by Captain Dayman in 1857, while dredging in HMS Cyclops, in connection with the laying of the Atlantic cable. Huxley's description was published in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science in 1868. Eventually it was shown by the Challenger that the substance in question was nothing but a precipitate of gelatinous calcium sulphate thrown down by the addition of strong alcohol to deep-sea ooze.
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Bathymetry is the art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea, oceans and lakes.
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Battery Watch is a computer program for laptop computers. Because laptop computers run on batteries, they sometimes lose power at inconvenient times. Battery Watch monitors the amount of power left in the battery of a laptop computer. Although many laptops have power indicators, they may only give a 10-15 minute warning.
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Battery Watch is a Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program which is activated by a hotkey. The hotkey displays the power gauge on-screen showing immediately how much time is left on the machine. The hotkey can be changed so it does not interfere with other RAM-resident programs that use the same key.
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Baud is a unit of computer etc. signalling speed. The speed in Baud is the number of discrete conditions or signal elements per second. If each signal event represents only one bit condition, then Baud is the same as bits per second. Baud does not equal bits per second.
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The BBC Master Compact was a British personal computer launched in 1986 by Acorn Computers, based on the 65C12 processor running at 2 Mhz. The BBC Master Compact was fitted with 128 kb of RAM and ran the BBC BASIC ADFS operating system. The
BBC Master Compact was available with a 12-inch green monochrome or 8-colour monitor and had a display resolution of 640 x 256 pixels or 40 or 80 x 20 character cells. The BBC Master Compact used an external 640 kb 3.25 inch floppy disk drive for storage.
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The BBC Microcomputer was developed in 1982 in the UK by Acorn for the BBC. The first versions were developed from Acorn's earlier microcomputers, the Electron and the Atom, and based on Rockwell's 6502 microprocessor. The computer was also the beneficiary of UK Government funding to schools, which were able to buy the BBC Micro at reduced prices. As a result, it became the dominant microcomputer in British schools. The BBC Micro was a highly advanced microcomputer for its time, with full support for disc drives and network connection. Its immediate successor, the BBC Master, also sold well to schools, but was too expensive for home use and unsuccessful in the business market. In 1998 the BBC World Service was still using a BBC Microcomputer in one of the studios for editing scripts.
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A BBS (Bulletin Board System) is a communicating computer equipped so as to provide informational messages, file storage and transfer and a degree of message exchange to dial-up data terminal or personal computer users.
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BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) is a binary-coded notation in which each decimal digit of a number is expressed in binary form; Example: 23 decimal is 10111 in binary, and 0010 0011 in BCD.
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In scientific terms, a beam is a stream of light energy, and may be represented by a number of rays which may be either diverging, converging or parallel.
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The Bearcat DX1000 was a Japanese made general coverage receiver manufactured from 1983 to 1984 and providing coverage from 10khx to 30mhz in AM, SSB, CW and FM modes. Although rich in features, the receiver was prone to overloading by strong signals and.
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A Beat-frequency Oscillator (B.F.O.) is a device for generating oscillations of approximately sinusoidal waveform by combining two radio-frequency electrical oscillations of different frequencies.
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The beaufort scale measures wind speed at sea.
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Bebeerine is the active principle of the bark of the bebeeru or green-heart tree of Guiana, analogous to quinine, and used to some extent for similar purposes.
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Becquerel Rays was a name originally given to the radiations emitted by radioactive substances, and now distinguished as Alpha Rays, Beta Rays, and Gamma Rays. Becquerel Rays were so named from their discoverer, the eminent French physicist, Henri Becquerel. They were first detected in 1896, as proceeding from uranium salts.
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Bees'-wax is a solid fatty substance secreted by bees, and containing in its purified state three chemical principles - myricin, cerin, and cerolein. It is not collected from plants, but elaborated from saccharine food in the body of the bee. It is used for the manufacture of candles, for modelling, polishing wooden furniture and in many minor processes.
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Bell metal is an alloy of 80 copper to 20 tin.
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In machinery, a bell-crank is a rectangular lever by which the direction of motion is changed through an angle of 90 degrees, and by which its velocity-ratio and range may be altered at pleasure by making the arms of different lengths. It is much employed in. machinery, and is named from its being the form of crank employed in changing the direction of the bell-wires of house-bells.
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A Bellini-Tosi aerial is an arrangement of two large fixed-frame aerials mounted at right angles to each other and used in conjunction with a radiogoniometer in radio direction finding.
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Bellows are an instrument or machine for producing a strong current of air, and principally used for blowing fires, either in private dwellings or in forges, furnaces, mines, etc. Bellows are so formed as, by being dilated and contracted, to inhale air by an orifice which is opened and closed with a valve, and to propel it through a tube upon the fire. It is an ancient contrivance, being known in Egypt, India, and China many ages ago, while forms of it are used among native tribes in Africa. Bellows of very great power are called blowing-machines, and were formerly wrought by machinery driven by steam.
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Originally, a benchmark was a surveying term. A land surveyor, when taking levels, required some fixed point or datum as a standard of height by which to regulate and verify measurements and operations. This basic point was indicated by a mark resembling a bench (in ordnance they took the form of a broad arrow), hence the term benchmark.
In later parlance benchmarks became understood as a relative measure of performance, often a standard or fixed value against which other data can be compared. In computing terms they are considered (by hackers) as an inaccurate measure of computer performance. 'In the computer industry, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and benchmarks.' Well-known ones include Whetstone, Dhrystone, Rhealstone, the Gabriel LISP benchmarks, the SPECmark suite, and LINPACK.
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Benzene, benzine or benzol is a a liquid hydrocarbon obtained from coal-tar or distillate of petroleum obtained from benzol by treating it with sulphuric acid and then distilling, used as a solvent in dry cleaning and painting. Benzene was discovered by Faraday in the oils of portable gas in 1825 and obtained by Mitscherlich from benzoic acid in 1834, and by Mansfield from coal tar in 1848 (he also died as the result of burns sustained while experimenting with benzene). It has the formulae CgHg and is quite colourless, of a peculiar agreeable odour and is used by manufacturers of india-rubber and gutta-percha, on account of its great solvent powers, in the preparation of varnishes, also for removing grease from fabrics, gloves, etc. It is the parent substance for most of the aniline dyes and for other substances, e.g. saccharin. It is inflammable, burning with a very smoky flame.
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Benzoic acid occurs naturally in berries and vegetables, but is commercially produced by chemical synthesis and used in food as an anti-fungal and anti-bacterial agent. It may cause migraine attacks when consumed with coal-tar derived dyes.
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Benzoic sulphinide (also Benzosulfimide) is the chemical name for the artificial sweetener 'saccharin'.
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Benzosulfimide (also benzoic sulphinide) is the chemical name for the artificial sweetener 'saccharin'.
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Benzotrichloride (toluene trichloride) is a colourless or yellow liquid used chiefly in the manufacture of dyes.
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Benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) is one of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) compounds. Because it is formed when petrol, rubbish, or any animal or plant material is burned, it is usually found in smoke and soot. Benzo[ a]pyrene is also found in the coal tar pitch that is used to join electrical parts together and in creosote.
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Benzyl benzoate is a colourless, faintly aromatic liquid used chiefly as a fixative and solvent in the manufacture of flavourings and perfume and in medicine in the treatment of certain skin conditions.
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Berberine is a yellow crystalline bitter alkaloid occurring in the barberry plant.
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Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) is a technically advanced variant of the Unix computer operating system.
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Berkelium is a radioactive metallic element produced by bombarding americium 241 with helium ions. It has the symbol Bk.
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Berlin Black is a varnish similar to Brunswick Black but finer.
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Beryllium is a steel-grey, light, strong, brittle, toxic, bivalent metallic element used chiefly as a hardening agent in alloys. It has the symbol Be.
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A bespoke browser is a web browser which has been customised, often, for example to add functionality peculiar to a particular web site. For example a bespoke web browser may be a modified version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer with an added toolbar for quickly accessing pages at a specific web site. Bespoke browsers are popularly made freely available as a form of viral marketing by companies.
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The bessemer converter is a process for making cheap steel. Basically, impurities are removed from the pig iron by blasting air through the molten metal and adding lime to remove phosphorus from the metal. The process takes about twenty minutes.
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In chemistry, a beta particle is a negative electron given off by a radioactive substance.
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Beta Particles are electrons travelling at velocities up to 99 per cent of the velocity of light, such as are emitted from the nuclei of the atoms of radioactive materials.
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Beta rays are streams of high-velocity beta particles travelling at speeds approaching that of light.
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A betatron is an apparatus for accelerating electrons to very high velocities by means of a periodic magnetic field, thus producing 'artificial' beta rays.
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The bevatron is a massive apparatus for accelerating protons and other atomic particles at the University of California, Berkeley.
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In mechanics, a bevel gear is a kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.
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A bevel-square is a square, the blade of which is adjustable to any angle in the stock, and retained at any 'set' by a clamping screw.
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BHT is a trade name for Butylated hydroxy toluene.
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A bicarbonate indicator is a PH indicator sensitive enough to show a colour change as the concentration of the gas carbon dioxide increases. The indicator is used in photosynthesis and respiration experiments to find out whether carbon dioxide is being liberated. The initial red colour changes to yellow as the pH becomes more acidic. Carbon dioxide, even in the concentrations found in exhaled air, will dissolve in the indicator to form a weak solution of carbonic acid, which will lower the pH and therefore give the characteristic colour change.
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Bidery, named after the town of Bider in India, is an alloy, primarily composed of copper, lead, tin, to every 3 oz. of which 16 oz. of spelter (zinc) are added. Many articles of Indian manufacture, remarkable for elegance of form and gracefully-engraved patterns, are made of it. It is said not to rust, to yield little to the hammer, and to break only when violently beaten. Articles formed from it are generally inlaid with silver or gold and polished.
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Biela's Comet was discovered by Biela, an Austrian officer, in 1826. Its periodic time was determined as 6 years 38 weeks. It returned in 1832, 1839, 1846, and 1852. On the latter two occasions it was in two parts, each having a distinct nucleus and tail. It has not since been seen as a comet; but in 1872, 1879, and 1885, when the earth passed through the comet's track, immense flights of meteors were seen, which have been connected with the broken-up and dispersed comet.
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Billon is an alloy of copper and silver, in which the former predominates, formerly used in some countries for coins of low value, the object being to avoid the bulkiness of pure copper coin.
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In chemistry, a binary compound is a compound composed of two elements per molecule.
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A binary search is a fast system of searching a sorted list. The basic principle is that each comparison divides the remaining list into two. The first search commences at the middle of the list, and determines if the desired key is in the first or last half. The next comparison occurs half way through the half determined by the previous comparison, and so on until either a matching key is located, or the search fails because no matching key is included in the list.
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In algebra, a binominal is a quantity consisting of two terms or members, connected by the sign + or -. The binomial theorem, is the celebrated theorem given by Sir Isaac Newton for raising a binomial to any power, or for extracting any root of it by an approximating infinite series.
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Biogenesis is the history of life development generally and specifically, that department of biological science which speculates on the mode by which new species have been introduced; often restricted to that view which holds that living organisms can spring only from living parents.
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Biogeography is the science of the study of the geographical distribution of living organisms. It is based primarily on geological research, the findings of palaeontologists, and evolutionary systematics - notably comparative morphology. Biogeography divides the earth into regions (regional
biogeography) made on the basis of historical ecology, and includes the Megagaea kingdom which is subdivided into the Holarctic biotic region which is further divided into the Palaearctic and the Nearctic sub-regions; the Oriental biotic region; the Afrotropical biotic region which is subdivided into the African sub-region and the Madagascan sub-region; the Neogaea kingdom which contains the Neotropical sub-region; the Notogaea kingdom which contains the Australasian region which is further divided into the Continental Australian sub-region, the New Zealand sub-region and the Polynesian sub-region.
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Biology is the science of life dealing with the morphology, physiology, anatomy, behaviour, origin and distribution of living organisms.
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In computing, a BIOS (Basic Input Output System) is a small computer program that handles important hardware processes.
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Bisque is a kind of unglazed white porcelain used for making statuettes and ornaments.
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Bistre (Bister) is a warm-brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood, especially beech. It furnishes a fine transparent wash, but is mainly used in monochrome sketching in the same manner as sepia or Indian Ink.
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In printing, a bit image is a form of image where shapes are comprised of dots. The resolution of the bit image is limited by the size of the dots.
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In computing, bitmaps are images comprised of an array of colour values. Each colour value determines the colour of one pixel in the image. For black and white images, the colour value of each pixel can be expressed in a single bit of information as just 0 or 1. For colour images, more bits per pixel are required, eight bits for images with up to 256 colours, sixteen bits for images with up to 16636 colours and so on. Bitmaps are the only choice of image format for photographic images, but generate larger file sizes than vector graphics and are less resizable.
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Bitnet is an international computer network linking colleges and universities, similar to Usenet but using a different set of technical protocols for distributing information. It offers hundreds of discussion groups, comparable in scope to Usenet newsgroups.
Bitnet messages are sent to your mailbox, just as with a mailing list. However, where mailing lists are often maintained by a person, all Bitnet discussion groups are automated - you subscribe to them through messages to a 'listserver' computer.
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Bittern is the syrupy residue from evaporated sea-water after the common salt has been taken out of it. It is used in the preparation of Epsom salts (sulphate of magnesia), of Glauber's salt (sulphate of soda), and contains also chloride of magnesium, iodine, and bromine.
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Bitumen is a natural inflammable pitchy hydrocarbon.
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Black Japan is a bituminous black paint made from asphaltum cooked with oil and blended with copal varnish, thinned with turpentine. Black Japan is heat resistant, and was used as a stoving enamel and for painting radiators.
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The Black Swan HTML editor is a quick, powerful, small, inexpensive, and easy-to-use HTML editor for the Windows operating system, able to design very sophisticated Web pages and HTML help files.
Black Swan supports HTML 4.0 and all Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer tags and attributes. For beginners, Black Swan provides an Internet overview and explains step by step how to design and publish Web pages. Features include a tag inspector, several wizards, a table builder, a link manager, professionally predesigned templates, search capabilities, bookmarks, and more.
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Black tin is the name given to tin ore when dressed, stamped, and washed ready for smelting, forming a black powder.
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Black wadd is an ore of manganese, used as a drying ingredient in paints.
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Bleaching is the act or art of freeing textile fibres and fabrics and various other substances (such as materials for paper, ivory, wax, oils) from their natural colour, and rendering them perfectly white, or nearly so.
The ancient method of bleaching by exposing the fabrics, etc, to the action of the sun's rays, and frequently wetting them, had been nearly superseded by the start of the 20th century, at least where the business is carried on on the large scale, more complicated processes in connection with powerful chemical preparations being then employed. Among the latter the chief are chlorine and sulphurous acid, the latter being employed more especially in the case of animal fibres (silk and wool), while cotton, flax, and other vegetable fibres are operated upon with chlorine, the bleaching in both cases being preceded by certain cleansing processes.
The use of chlorine as a bleaching agent was first proposed by Berthollet in 1786, and shortly afterwards introduced into Great Britain, where it was first used simply dissolved in water, afterwards dissolved in alkali, and then in the form of bleaching-powder, commonly called chloride of lime, the manufacture of which was patented by Mr. Tennant of St Rollox. Glasgow, in 1799.
In calico bleaching the preliminary process is singeing by passing the fabric over red-hot plates or through a gas-flame to remove the downy pile and short threads from the surface of the cloth. The goods next pass to the liming process, when they are uniformly and thoroughly impregnated with a supersaturated solution of lime. The next process is the bowking or boiling for several hours, after which they are washed. They are then soured by being passed through a solution of hydrochloric acid for the purpose of dissolving any traces of free lime which may have been left in the washing, and to decompose the calcareous soap formed by the bowking process. After boiling in kiers with a solution of soda-ash and rosin and another washing, the cloth is ready for the processes of chemicking or liquoring with bleaching-powder, and white-souring with a very dilute sulphuric acid. Another thorough washing concludes the operations of bleaching proper, after which the cloth goes through various finishing processes. Modifications of the same processes are adopted in bleaching linen, wool, silk, etc.
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Bleaching-powder is chloride of lime made by exposing slaked lime to the action of chlorine. It is generally regarded as a chloride and hypochlorite of calcium. It is much used as a disinfectant, besides its use in bleaching.
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Blister-steel is iron bars which, when converted into steel, have their surface covered with blisters, probably from the expansion of minute bubbles of air. Steel is used in the blister state for welding to iron for certain pieces of mechanism, but is not employed for making edge-tools. It requires for this purpose to be converted into cast or shear steel.
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A block is a mechanical contrivance consisting of one or more grooved pulleys mounted in a casing or shell which is furnished with a hook, eye, or strap by which it may be attached to an object, the function of the apparatus being to transmit power or change the direction of motion by means of a rope or chain passing round the movable pulleys. Blocks are single, double, treble, or fourfold, according as the number of sheaves or pulleys is one, two, three, or four. A running block is attached to the object to be raised or moved; a standing block is fixed to some permanent support. Blocks also receive different denominations from their shape, purpose, and mode of application. They are sometimes made of iron as well as of wood. Blocks to which the name of dead-eyes has been given, are not pulleys, being unprovided with sheaves.
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In computing, a block mode file is a file whose contents are buffered, allowing for asynchronous writes on the underlying hardware and for reads to occur at the same time and not to read again what is already in the buffer.
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A Blue Box is an electronic apparatus used fraudulently to synthesize signals, gaining access to the toll network for the placement of telephone calls without charge.
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The BNC (Bayonet Neill Concelman) is a form of quick connect/disconnect RF connectors, characterised by two bayonet lugs on the female connector which ensure a secure connection that will not easily fall apart or be accidentally pulled out. The BNC connector was developed during the late 1940's as a miniature version of the Type C connector. BNC connectors are popularly used in computer networks to join equipment together with 50 ohm or 75 ohm ethernet co-axial cable.
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In chemistry, boiling point is the temperature at which the vapour pressure in a liquid equals the atmospheric pressure.
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A bolometer is an electrical instrument, invented by Langley, which is sensitive to radiant heat, and who used it to make discoveries in the ultra red rays of the spectrum.
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A bolster is the perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched. In cutlery, the bolster is that part of a knife blade which abuts upon the end of the handle. The term is also applied to the metallic end of a pocket-knife handle.
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Boltzmann's constant is the ratio of the mean total energy in a molecule to its absolute temperature.
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In computing, a bootdisk is a bootable floppy disk containing the code required to load the operating system from either the floppy disk, or more usually from a separate hard disk.
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A bootstrap loader (boot) is a computer input routine in which pre-set operations are placed into a computer that enable it to get into operation whenever a reset condition occurs; in electronic PBXs this may be called Automatic Program Loading or a similar term; in personal computers it is the sequence that searches predetermined disks for a Command Interpreter program, then a Configure System file; finally an Autoexecution Batch file.
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Borates are a series of naturally occurring boron ores formed from boric acid.
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Boric acid is an acid of borax found naturally. It is also known as acidum boricum, it is widely used as an eyewash.
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Boron is a trivalent metalloid element found in nature only in combination, often in borates or silicates (such as in borax). Boron is used in metallurgy and nucleonics, being very important in nuclear reactors. It has the symbol B.
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Botany is the science of the structure, physiology, classification and distribution of plants.
Botany is a department of biology, and is itself further divided into various departments such as, Structural Botany, which investigates the structure and organic composition of plants; Physiological
Botany, which deals with the study of their functions and life; and Systematic
Botany, which has to do with their classification, description, nomenclature, etc.
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A bow saw is a thin bladed saw, the blade mounted in a bow-shaped frame, used for cutting curves.
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Bowstring-hemp is a fibre extracted from the leaves of the Indian plant Sanseviera zeylanica. It is so named because the natives used it to make bow-strings.
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Boxer 99 is a powerful, full-featured text editor for the Windows operating system that will appeal to programmers, writers, engineers, students and others. Boxer features colour syntax highlighting and printing, column blocking, undo and redo, regular expression searches and other features.
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Boyle's Law (Mariotte's Law) is a law in physics to the effect that the volume of a gas will vary inversely with the pressure to which it is subjected if its temperature is kept constant.
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A brad is a small tapered nail with a small head that is either symmetrical or formed on one side only.
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Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc formerly called Prince's Metal, German Gold, Deutsche Gold and also Dutch Gold.
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Brazing is a form of soldering by means of a kind of brass called spelter. The surfaces to be united are thoroughly cleaned, and heated by a forge or blow-torch, spelter is then applied to the joint in the form of a wire or filings along with borax which acts as a flux.
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In telecommunications, BRI (Basic Rate Interface) is a consumer grade ISDN line consisting of 2 64K bearer channels and one 16K delta (controller) channel.
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BRIEF by Solution Systems Inc. is a highly flexible, full-screen editor and macro generator designed for use with dBase or high-level languages such as C, Pascal, and COBOL. You can customise the editor by reconfiguring your keyboard, changing the command functions, and creating new commands as needed. BRIEF for OS/2 runs in OS/ 2 protected mode to take advantage of that platform's multitasking and virtual memory support. It is fully compatible with the DOS version of BRIEF. The
BRIEF macro language is a structured programming language similar to C. The macro language can be programmed and must be compiled to run the commands you create. BRIEF has unlimited variables and an IF/THEN/ ELSE loop feature found only in high-level on-screen languages.
BRIEF lets you undo your last 300 commands including deletions, insertions, cursor movement, cut and paste, global replacement, and read of file. There is no limit to file size, the number of active files, or the number of windows on-screen.
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A briquette is a mass of fuel in the shape of a brick, or a small ovoid, consisting mainly of coal-dust and some binding material, such as pitch, tar or asphalt. The materials are pressed together, heated and then pressed in moulds. Briquettes are useful as a domestic fuel as they burn slowly, but have the drawback of not producing as much heat as good coal and leaving a lot of ash.
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The Britannia joint is a form of electrical joint used for bare overhead wires where great tensile strength is required. The two wires are each tinned, and then each have a short shoulder bent in them, and are then bound together with tinned wire before the whole is soldered.
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Britannia Metal (White Metal) is a metallic alloy consisting of 85 to 94 per cent tin, 5 to 10 per cent antimony and about 1 per cent of zinc or bismuth. It was used before cupro-nickel for making teapots and cutlery.
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The British Sociological Association (BSA) was founded in 1951 and is the professional organisation representing sociologists in Britain.
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The British Thermal Unit is the amount of heat required to raise by one degree F the temperature of one pound of water at or near its temperature of maximum density.
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Broadband is a generic term for non-dial-up modem internet access. The term confusingly includes aDSL, DSL and cable connections. Broadband connections are often asynchronous - the rate of sending data is not the same as the rate at which data is received - and sometimes suffer from 'contention' where multiple subscribers share a physical connection, the available data transfer being shared equally between the connected users. Contention occurs throughout the Internet, but can be particularly noticeable on DSL type broadband connections where additional contention occurs closer to the user.
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A broadcast storm is a form of malicious denial of service attack launched against a computer network. There are various forms of a broadcast storm, but the basic method is to send a lot of data packets to all the hosts in the network with a destination address that don't exist. Each host will try to forward each packet, which then returns because of the invalid destination address, and with enough data packets doing this the network can become swamped and be unable to cope with the legitimate traffic.
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Bromatology is the science of food.
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Bromine is a non-metallic element normally a deep red, corrosive, toxic liquid giving of an irritating reddish brown vapour of disagreeable odour. It has the symbol Br. It was first discovered in salt water by Balard in 1826.
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Bromoform is the bromine analogue of chloroform. It is a very heavy liquid, which is insoluble in water and turns red in the light from the separation of bromine. It is used for separating and determining the density of minerals.
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Bronopol is a toxic alcohol used in fabric softeners and detergents. It is also used in face creams, shampoos, hair dressings, mascara and bath oils. It is a white crystalline powder that can cause skin irritation at concentrations of .25%.
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A brontometer is an apparatus for measuring thunderstorms invented by Richard, of Paris in 1890. The recording part of the instrument consisted of a drum about 20 cm wide on which was coiled endless paper fed by a clock which caused the paper to travel at a rate of 1 cm per minute. Pressing on the paper were several pens connected to various automatic meteorological apparatus. The pens registered the velocity of the wind, rainfall and atmospheric pressure. Other pens worked by keys enabled the observer to record the precise time of thunder and lightning.
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Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin.
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In computing, Brooks's Law states 'Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later'. A result of the fact that the advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with co-ordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of 'The Mythical Man-Month'.
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In chemistry, Brownian movement is the rapid oscillatory movement of small particles when suspended in water or other liquids.
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A browser, or more properly a web browser, is a computer program used to render and display HTML documents. Web browsers are typically graphical and based upon an early design known as Mosaic, invented by staff at the NCSA. Web browsers are also becoming available built into other devices, such as mobile phones.
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A browser sniffer is a script, usually a JavaScript, embedded in an HTML web page which attempts to determine the client web browser being used to access the page. A browser sniffer attempts to read the USER AGENT parameter passed by the client browser, and may redirect the reader automatically to different web pages depending upon the perceived browser in use. Browser sniffers are used because of incompatibilities in the enhanced functionality offered by different web browsers, and the desire of web page designers to achieve a consistent look-and-feel to their web pages across different platforms.
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Brucine (dimethoxy-strychnine) is an alkaloid present in nux vomica and St Ignatius' bean. It is a colourless crystalline solid, with a very bitter taste and similar properties to strychnine but it is less poisonous and gives a red colour with nitric acid.
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Brunswick Black is a hard, quick drying bituminous varnish or pigment composed of asphalt or pitch, linseed oil and turpentine used to give a glossy appearance to metal and other articles. Brunswick Black has a fair degree of heat resistance and was formerly used for stoves.
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Brunswick blue is a pigment produced as a reduced quality of Prussian blue.
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Brunswick green is a green pigment produced by mixing Brunswick blue with pale chrome yellow.
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In chemistry, BTU (British Thermal Unit) is the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. It is equal to 0.252 calorie.
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In computing, a bubble sort is a technique for sorting data in which adjacent items are continually exchanged until the data is in sequence. It is so named because elements appear to 'bubble' up the list.
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A Buchner flask is a flask with a hose connection at the neck, often combining the Erlenmeyer flask form, and used for filtering.
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A buck saw is a type of saw with its blade set in a frame and tensioned by a turnbuckle across the back of the frame. Buck saws are used for cutting wood.
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The bude light was a very bright gas lamp invented by Mr Gurney who lived in Bude, Cornwall. The bude lamp fed a stream of oxygen into the flame of an argand-lamp or gas-burner.
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In chemistry, a buffer is a substance that keeps the pH of a solution relatively constant in spite of the addition of considerable amounts of acid or base.
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Bulk Ban is a mixture of trace metals used to prevent bulking in biological effluent treatment.
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In audio engineering a bulk dump is a MIDI function that allow the transfer of system specific data, such as sample files or mixer settings, between MIDI capable devices. The data are transmitted as MIDI System Exclusive messages.
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A Bunsen burner is a small gas and air burner used chiefly in chemistry laboratories to heat substances. In the standard model, a Bunsen burner has an air regulator consisting of large holes on two sides of the vertical shaft which may be opened or closed by means of a metal collar.
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A burette is a graduated glass tube used for dividing a given portion of liquid into smaller quantities of a definite amount.
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A burin (also called a graver) is a tempered steel instrument used for engraving copper, steel etc. It has a triangular point attached to a wooden handle.
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A burnisher is a blunt, smooth tool used for polishing rough surfaces by rubbing. Agate, tempered steel and dogs' teeth are traditionally used to make burnishes.
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Burnt Sienna is the popular name for Terra di Sienna, a brown ferruginous ochre used in painting, and obtained from Italy. Before being used as a pigment it is calcined, and hence the name
Burnt Sienna.
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Butane is an alkane inflammable gas by product of petroleum.
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Butyl acetate is a toxic solvent used in nail polish, paint thinners and many other products.
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Butyric Acid is an acid originally obtained from butter, and also present in perspiration. It is a colourless liquid, having a smell like that of rancid butter, and the formula C4H3O2.
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Byline by Ashton-Tate offers a style of desktop publishing for people who don't like or don't have a mouse. Not quite a WYSIWYG package nor a fully-fledged batch program, Byline uses a page layout system with keyboard-only interaction and instant preview. Byline uses familiar commands and keyboard sequences to lay out a page, complete with multiple columns and graphics. It can be used to integrate text and graphics from many sources including standard word processing and paint programs, dBase users can read data directly from their database and format it with Byline. Grids are used to set up pages and help create an organised document. One side of the screen displays the document while the other side contains a form which allows definition of document characteristics such as titles, borders and font style and sizes. Nearly all formatting is maintained when files are imported. Byline can edit the text with its built-in word processor which includes cut-and-paste and search-and-replace functions. Changes made to word processing documents in
Byline are reflected in the original file. Four fonts are provided. Times, Helvetica, Courier and dBase. Other fonts and typeface sizes which are available in a given printer are inaccessible. Byline's graphic editing capabilities include cropping and scaling of images. All other editing must be done in the graphics package. Especially useful is the screen capture utility which allows any screen image to be saved if it is in a graphic file format Byline can read. A demonstration disk is available. This software is designed for minor publishing requirements giving simple, effective desktop publishing facilities and which are easy to learn but flexible enough to produce good handouts, memos and the occasional newsletters. Byline will produce documents which are more readable and impressive than ordinary typed documents but not to PageMaker or Ventura Publisher standard.
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In computing, a byte is eight consecutive binary units (bits) interpreted as a number between 0 and 255, unsigned, or between -128 and 127, signed.
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