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Bel BEL can be an abbreviation for: * The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Belgium * ''BEL'' or bell character in the C0 control code set * Belarusian language, in the ISO 639-2 and SIL country code lists * Bharat Electronics Limited, an Indian stat ...

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Boron Boron is a chemical element with the symbol B and atomic number 5. In its crystalline form it is a brittle, dark, lustrous metalloid; in its amorphous form it is a brown powder. As the lightest element of the ''boron group'' it has th ...

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* B10 – (i) '' Ben 10'' * B10: AF – (i) '' Ben 10: Alien Force'' * B10: UA – (i) '' Ben 10: Ultimate Alien'' * B2B – (i)

Business-to-business electronic commerce Business-to-business (B2B or, in some countries, BtoB) is a situation where one business makes a commercial transaction with another. This typically occurs when: * A business is sourcing materials for their production process for output (e.g., a ...

* B2C – (i) Business-to-consumer electronic commerce * B2E – (i)

Business-to-employee electronic commerce Business-to-employee (B2E) electronic commerce uses an intrabusiness network which allows companies to provide products and/or services to their employees. Typically, companies use B2E networks to automate employee-related corporate processes. B2E ...

* B2M –

Business to many Business-to-many or B2M is a marketing term for a business that sells their goods or services to other businesses as well as to consumers. Unlike B2B firms that only engage themselves with other businesses or retail firms (B2C) that only contact c ...

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Bashkir language Bashkir (, ; Bashkir: ''Bashqortsa'', ''Bashqort tele'', ) is a Turkic language belonging to the Kipchak branch. It is co-official with Russian in Bashkortostan. It is spoken by approximately 1.4 million native speakers in Russia, as well as i ...

(ISO 639-1 code) * Ba – (s)

Barium Barium is a chemical element with the symbol Ba and atomic number 56. It is the fifth element in group 2 and is a soft, silvery alkaline earth metal. Because of its high chemical reactivity, barium is never found in nature as a free element. Th ...

* BA – **(i) Bachelor of Arts **(s) Bahrain (FIPS 10-4 country code) ** Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO 3166 diagram) **(i) British Airways ** British Army ** Bank of America * BAA – (i) British Airport Authority * BAC – (a) Blood alcohol content **

British Aircraft Corporation The British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) was a British aircraft manufacturer formed from the government-pressured merger of English Electric Aviation Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Hunting Aircraft in 1 ...

BAD Bad or BAD may refer to: Common meanings *Evil, the opposite of moral good * Erroneous, inaccurate or incorrect * Unhealthy, or counter to well-being * Antagonist, the threat or obstacle of moral good Acronyms * BAD-2, a Soviet armored troll ...

- (HBO) Boxing After Dark *

BADD "Badd" is the second single from the Ying Yang Twins' album ''U.S.A. (United State of Atlanta)''. It features Mike Jones and Mr. Collipark. In 2006 it reached number 6 on the Hot Rap Songs chart and number 29 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The s ...

– (a) Battlefield Awareness and Data Dissemination *

BAE BAE Systems plc (BAE) is a British multinational arms, security, and aerospace company based in London, England. It is the largest defence contractor in Europe, and ranked the seventh-largest in the world based on applicable 2021 revenues. ...

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BAE Systems BAE Systems plc (BAE) is a British multinational arms, security, and aerospace company based in London, England. It is the largest defence contractor in Europe, and ranked the seventh-largest in the world based on applicable 2021 revenues. ...

(formerly British Aerospace, BAe) * BAFTA – (a) British Academy of Film and Television Arts * BAI – (i)

Battlefield Air Interdiction In military tactics, close air support (CAS) is defined as air action such as air strikes by fixed or rotary-winged aircraft against hostile targets near friendly forces and require detailed integration of each air mission with fire and movement ...

bak Bak or BAK may refer to: Computer * Bak file * ''Betrayal at Krondor'', a DOS-based role-playing video game * Bill and keep reciprocal payment in telecommunications systems Acronyms * Bcl-2 homologous antagonist killer, a protein involved in pro ...

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BALCO The Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) (1984–2003) was an American company led by founder and owner Victor Conte. In 2003, journalists Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada investigated the company's role in a drug sports scandal later re ...

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Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative The Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) (1984–2003) was an American company led by founder and owner Victor Conte. In 2003, journalists Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada investigated the company's role in a drug sports scandal later re ...

* bam – (s)

Bambara language Bambara (Arabic script: ), also known as Bamana (N'Ko script: ) or Bamanankan (), is a lingua franca and national language of Mali spoken by perhaps 15 million people, natively by 5 million Bambara people and about 10 million second-language us ...

(ISO 639-2 code) * BAM – **(i)

Business Activity Monitoring Business activity monitoring (BAM) is software that aids the monitoring of business activities which are implemented in computer systems. The term was originally coined by analysts at Gartner, Inc. and refers to the aggregation, analysis, and pr ...

**(s) Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark (

ISO 4217 ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual cu ...

currency code) * BAMC – (i) Brooke Army Medical Center *

Banesto Banco Español de Crédito, S.A. (), “Spanish Credit Bank”) better known as Banesto, was a Spanish multinational financial services company. Prior to the Spanish Government's historical intervention in 1993, the very first in the history of ...

– (p) ''Banco Español de Crédito'' ( Spanish, "Spanish Credit Bank") * BANG – (a) Bits, Atoms, Neurons, Genes *

BAO Baozi (), Pao-tsih or bao, is a type of yeast-leavened filled bun in various Chinese cuisines. There are many variations in fillings (meat or vegetarian) and preparations, though the buns are most often steamed. They are a variation of '' man ...

– (i) Battlefield Air Operations * BAOR – (i) British Army Of the Rhine * B – (p) Benzo yrene *

BAR Bar or BAR may refer to: Food and drink * Bar (establishment), selling alcoholic beverages * Candy bar * Chocolate bar Science and technology * Bar (river morphology), a deposit of sediment * Bar (tropical cyclone), a layer of cloud * Bar (u ...

** (s) Barbados (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166) ** (a)

British American Racing British American Racing (BAR) was a Formula One constructor that competed in the sport from 1999 to 2005. BAR began by acquiring Tyrrell, and used Supertec engines for their first year. Subsequently, they formed a partnership with Honda which l ...

Browning Automatic Rifle The Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) is a family of American automatic rifles and machine guns used by the United States and numerous other countries during the 20th century. The primary variant of the BAR series was the M1918, chambered for the . ...

Buy-American Restrictions The Buy American Act ("BAA", originally , now ) passed in 1933 by U.S Congress, Congress and signed by Herbert Hoover, President Hoover on his last full day in office (March 3, 1933), required the United States government to prefer U.S.-made prod ...

BARD In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise t ...

– (a) Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund (between the US and Israel) *

BARDA Barda or BARDA may refer to: Geography *Barda District, a district in Azerbaijan *Barda, Azerbaijan, a town in Azerbaijan *Bârda, a village in Malovăț Commune, Mehedinți County, Romania *Barda, Russia, several rural localities in Russia *Bar ...

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Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) office responsible for the procurement and development of medical countermeasures, principally against bioterrorism, in ...

* BART – (a)

Bay Area Rapid Transit Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California. BART serves 50 stations along six routes on of rapid transit lines, including a spur line in eastern Contra Costa County which uses ...

BAS Bas may refer to: People * Bas (name), a given name and a surname * Bas (rapper) (born 1987) Chemistry * Boron arsenide (BAs), a chemical compound * Barium sulfide (BAs), a chemical compound Other uses * ''bas'' (French for "low"), as in bas- ...

– (i) Battalion Aid Station * BASE – (a) Building, Antenna, Span, Earth (parachute from) * BASF – (i) ''Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik'' (Baden Aniline and Soda Factory, a German chemicals company) *

BASIC BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages designed for ease of use. The original version was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College ...

– (a) Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (acronym was added later, originally it was simply ''Basic'') * BAT – (a/i) Basic Aid Training ** (a)

British American Tobacco British American Tobacco plc (BAT) is a British multinational company that manufactures and sells cigarettes, tobacco and other nicotine products. The company, established in 1902, is headquartered in London, England. As of 2019, it is the large ...

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BATF The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), commonly referred to as the ATF, is a domestic law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice. Its responsibilities include the investigation and prevent ...

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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), commonly referred to as the ATF, is a domestic law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice. Its responsibilities include the investigation and preven ...

BATS Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera.''cheir'', "hand" and πτερόν''pteron'', "wing". With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats are more agile in flight than most bi ...

– **(a) Behavior Analysis Training System ** Bradley Advanced Training System * BATTeRS – (a)

Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey The Bisei Spaceguard Center (BSGC) is an astronomical observatory located at Bisei-chō, Okayama, Japan. The facility was constructed during 1999–2000, where it since conducts the Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey or , an as ...

BB

* BB ** (s) Barbados (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) ** (i) Boys' Brigade (Christian youth organization) ** Brigitte Bardot (actress) ** Bumblebee * BBB ** (i) Better Business Bureau ** Big Black Cowboy **

Blood–brain barrier The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a highly selective semipermeable membrane, semipermeable border of endothelium, endothelial cells that prevents solutes in the circulating blood from ''non-selectively'' crossing into the extracellular fluid of ...

** (p/i) '' BoerBurgerBeweging'' (Dutch, "Farmer–Citizen Movement"; Dutch political party) * BBC ** (i) Breeding Bird Census ** British Broadcasting Corporation ** (i) Bumper to Back of Cab (trucking measurement) * BBCOR – (i) Bat-ball coefficient of restitution (standard used for non-wood bats used in US college baseball) *

BBD BBD may stand for: Music *Bell Biv DeVoe or BBD, a music group ** ''BBD'' (album), an album by Bell Biv DeVoe **" B.B.D. (I Thought It Was Me)?", a song by Bell Biv Devoe from ''Poison'' *** B.B.D. (The Poison Tour) *Be-Bop Deluxe, a rock band *Big ...

** (s) Barbadian dollar (

currency code) ** (a) Bowel Bladder Dysfunction *

BBL A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are dry barrels, fluid barrels (such as the U.K. beer barrel and U.S. beer barrel), oil barrels, and so forth. For historical reasons the volumes of some barrel units ...

** (i) Be Back Later ** Bird Banding Laboratory ** British Basketball League * BBN – (i) Bolt, Beranek and Newman * BBOL – Blessing Ball of Light *

BBQ Barbecue or barbeque (informally BBQ in the UK, US, and Canada, barbie in Australia and braai in South Africa) is a term used with significant regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods that use live fire and smoke t ...

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Barbecue Barbecue or barbeque (informally BBQ in the UK, US, and Canada, barbie in Australia and braai in South Africa) is a term used with significant regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods that use live fire and smoke t ...

BBS BBS may refer to: Ammunition * BBs, BB gun metal bullets * BBs, airsoft gun plastic pellets Computing and gaming * Bulletin board system, a computer server users dial into via dial-up or telnet; precursor to the Internet * BIOS Boot Specificat ...

** (i) Breeding Bird Survey (North America) ** Brigade/Battalion Battle Simulation **

Bulletin Board System A bulletin board system (BBS), also called computer bulletin board service (CBBS), is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as ...

BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, is a non-departmental public body (NDPB), and is the largest UK public funder of non-medical bioscience. It predominantly funds scientific rese ...

– (i) U.K.

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, is a non-departmental public body (NDPB), and is the largest UK public funder of non-medical bioscience. It predominantly funds scientific rese ...

* BBVA – (i) Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (Spanish bank) *

BBYO BBYO (formerly ''B'nai B'rith Youth Organization Inc.'') is a Jewish teen movement, organized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and headquartered in Washington, D.C. The organization is intended to build the identity of Jewish teens and offer l ...

– B'nai B'rith Youth Organization

BC

* BC ** (i) Before Christ ** Blind Copy (in emailers) **

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...

** (s) Botswana (FIPS 10-4 country code; from ''Bechuanaland'') ** British Columbia (postal symbol) * BCA ** (i) Bachelor of Computer Application ** Black Coaches & Administrators * BCC – (i) Blind Carbon Copy *

BCCI The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the national governing body for cricket in India. Its headquarters are situated at Cricket centre, Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. The BCCI is the richest governing body of cricket in the worl ...

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Bank of Credit and Commerce International The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was an international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier. The bank was registered in Luxembourg with head offices in Karachi and London. A decade after opening, BCC ...

** Board of Control for Cricket in India * BCD – (i)

Binary-Coded Decimal In computing and electronic systems, binary-coded decimal (BCD) is a class of binary encodings of decimal numbers where each digit is represented by a fixed number of bits, usually four or eight. Sometimes, special bit patterns are used for ...

* BCE ** (i) '' Banque centrale européenne'' (French, "European Central Bank") ** Battlefield Co-ordination Element ** BC Electric, a former name for BC Hydro ** Before Common Era * BCER – (i)

British Columbia Electric Railway The British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) was an historic railway which operated in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Originally the parent company for, and later a division of, BC Electric Company (now BC Hydro), the BCER assumed contro ...

* BCFG – (s) Patchy Fog (METAR Code) * BCIS (fratricide avoidance system) – (i)

Battlefield Combat Identification System The Battlefield Combat Identification System (BCIS) was a question and answer system, in which military combat vehicles were able to communicate via a 38-GHz electronic millimeter wave pulse. The platform was mounted on Abrams Tanks and Bradley Fi ...

* BCLL – (a) Bibliography of Celtic Latin Literature *

BCPL BCPL ("Basic Combined Programming Language") is a procedural, imperative, and structured programming language. Originally intended for writing compilers for other languages, BCPL is no longer in common use. However, its influence is still ...

– (i) Basic Combined Programming Language (progenitor of C) * BCS ** (i)

Bachelor of Computer Science The Bachelor of Computer Science (abbreviated BCompSc or BCS) is a bachelor's degree awarded by some universities for completion of an undergraduate program in computer science. In general, computer science degree programs emphasize the mathemati ...

Bardeen Bardeen may refer to: *Charles Russell Bardeen (1871–1935), American anatomist, first dean of the medical school of the University of Wisconsin-Madison *Charles V. Bardeen (1850–1903), American jurist *Charles William Bardeen (1847–1924), Ame ...

Cooper Cooper, Cooper's, Coopers and similar may refer to: * Cooper (profession), a maker of wooden casks and other staved vessels Arts and entertainment * Cooper (producers), alias of Dutch producers Klubbheads * Cooper (video game character), in ...

, and Schrieffer superconduction theory **

Bowl Championship Series The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a selection system that created four or five bowl game match-ups involving eight or ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of American college football, including ...

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college football College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States. Unlike most ...

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Brigade Combat Team The brigade combat team (BCT) is the basic deployable unit of maneuver in the U.S. Army. A brigade combat team consists of one combat arms branch maneuver brigade, and its assigned support and fire units. A brigade is normally commanded by a ...

BD

* BD ** (s) Bangladesh (ISO 3166 digram) ** Bermuda (FIPS 10-4 territory code) * BDA – (i)

British Dental Association The British Dental Association (BDA) is a registered trade union for dentists in the United Kingdom. Its stated mission is to "promote the interests of members, advance the science, arts and ethics of dentistry and improve the nation's oral he ...

* BDD ** (i) Body Dysmorphic Disorder ** British Defence Doctrine * Bde – (s) Brigade * BDFL – (i) Benevolent Dictator For Life * BDI – (s)

Burundi Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the ...

(ISO 3166 trigram) * BDNF – (i) Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor * BDO – (i) Battle Dress Overgarment *

BDOS CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/ 85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initiall ...

– (a) Basic Disk Operating System; part of

CP/M CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/ 85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initial ...

* BDS ** (i) – Bachelor of Dental Surgery ** Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, a movement advocating various boycotts of Israel in the context of the Arab–Israeli conflict * BDSM – (i)

Bondage Bondage may refer to: Restraints *Physical restraints **Bondage (BDSM), use of restraint for erotic stimulation ***Self-bondage, use of restraints on oneself for erotic pleasure Social and economic practices *Serfdom, feudal enslavement of peasan ...

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Discipline Discipline refers to rule following behavior, to regulate, order, control and authority. It may also refer to punishment. Discipline is used to create habits, routines, and automatic mechanisms such as blind obedience. It may be inflicted on ot ...

Domination and Submission Dominance and submission (also called D/s) is a set of behaviors, customs, and rituals involving the submission of one person to another in an erotic episode or lifestyle. It is a subset of BDSM. This form of sexual contact and pleasure has been ...

, Sadism and Masochism * BDT ** (s) Bangladeshi taka (

currency code) ** (i) ''Bureau de développement des télécommunications'' (

Telecommunication Development Bureau The ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) is one of the three sectors (divisions or units) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU); it is responsible for creating policies, regulation and providing training programs and financi ...

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ITU-D The ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) is one of the three sectors (divisions or units) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU); it is responsible for creating policies, regulation and providing training programs and financi ...

) * BDU – (i) Battle-Dress Uniform

BE

* be – (s) Belarusian language (ISO 639-1 code) * Be – (s) Beryllium * BE – (s) Belgium (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) * BEA ** (i) Banque extérieure d'Algérie ** British European Airways (ancestor of British Airways) **

British Electricity Authority The British Electricity Authority (BEA) was established as the central British electricity authority in 1948 under the nationalisation of Great Britain's electricity supply industry enacted by the Electricity Act 1947. The BEA was responsible for ...

bel BEL can be an abbreviation for: * The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Belgium * ''BEL'' or bell character in the C0 control code set * Belarusian language, in the ISO 639-2 and SIL country code lists * Bharat Electronics Limited, an Indian stat ...

– (s) Belarusian language (ISO 639-2 code) *

BEL BEL can be an abbreviation for: * The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Belgium * ''BEL'' or bell character in the C0 control code set * Belarusian language, in the ISO 639-2 and SIL country code lists * Bharat Electronics Limited, an Indian stat ...

– (s) Belgium (ISO 3166 trigram) * BEM – (i)

British Empire Medal The British Empire Medal (BEM; formerly British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service) is a British and Commonwealth award for meritorious civil or military service worthy of recognition by the Crown. The current honour was created in 1922 to ...

– Bug-Eyed Monster *

ben Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given names Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett or Benson, and is also a given name in its own right. Ben (in he, בֶּן, ''son of'') forms part of Hebrew surnames, e.g. Abraham ben Abraham ( he, � ...

– (s) Bengali language (ISO 639-2 code) *

BEN Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given names Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett or Benson, and is also a given name in its own right. Ben (in he, בֶּן, ''son of'') forms part of Hebrew surnames, e.g. Abraham ben Abraham ( he, � ...

– (s) Benin (ISO 3166 trigram) *

BEO BEO, Beo, BeO or ''variation'' may refer to: ;BEO * Banquet event order * Belmont Airport IATA code * Book entry only * Beyond Earth Orbit ;Beo * ''Beo'', a variant of the name of the Anglo-Saxon god Beowa. * Beo language, an African language ...

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Banquet Event Order A meeting and convention planner supervises and coordinates the strategic, operational, and logistical activities necessary for the production of events. The planner can be employed or hired ad hoc by corporations, associations, governments, and ot ...

BERC Berc is a small village in the south of France. It is located in the department of Lozère, in the Massif Central, on the border with the department of Cantal, at an altitude of . In 1968 there were 144 inhabitants. An independent commune until ...

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BER ''Ziziphus mauritiana'', also known as Indian jujube, Indian plum, Chinese date, Chinese apple, ber, and dunks is a tropical fruit tree species belonging to the family Rhamnaceae. It is often confused with the closely related jujube, Chinese j ...

– (i) Bit Error Rate * BES ** (i) Budget Estimate Submission ** (s) Caribbean Netherlands (ISO 3166 trigram; from the entity's alternate name of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba) * BESS – (i) Business, Education, and Social Sciences * BET – (a/i)

Black Entertainment Television Black Entertainment Television (acronym BET) is an American basic cable channel targeting African-American audiences. It is owned by the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global via BET Networks and has offices in New York City, Los ...

* BETS – (a) Bradley Embedded Training System * BEV ** (i) Battery electric vehicle **

Black English Vernacular African-American Vernacular English (AAVE, ), also referred to as Black (Vernacular) English, Black English Vernacular, or occasionally Ebonics (a colloquial, controversial term), is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban ...

, a type of English spoken by many African Americans ** '' Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen'' (German: "Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying"), Austrian government agency

BF

* BF – (s) The Bahamas (FIPS 10-4 country code) – Burkina Faso (ISO 3166 digram) * b/f – (p) before * BFA – (s) Burkina Faso (ISO 3166 trigram) * BfArM – (i) Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte, German governmental institute for drugs and medical devices * BFF – (i) Best Friends Forever * BFI – (a) British Film Institute * BFR – (a)

Biennial flight review A flight review is a study program and flight instructor examination of aviation piloting skills. Periodic flight reviews are a pilot licensing requirement mandated by the aviation authorities of many countries. These reviews take different forms in ...

* BFR – (i) Brominated Flame Retardant * BFS – (s)

Belfast International Airport Belfast International Airport is an airport northwest of Belfast in Northern Ireland, is the main airport for the city of Belfast. Until 1983, it was known as ''Aldergrove Airport'', after the nearby village of Aldergrove. In 2018, over 6.2 ...

(IATA airport code) * BFSA – (i) Blue Force Situation Awareness * BFT – (i) Blue Force Tracking * BFX – (s)

Bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

BG

* bg – (s) Bulgarian language (ISO 639-1 code) * BG – (s) Bangladesh (FIPS 10-4 country code) – (i) Battle Group – Body Guard – (s) Brigadier General – (s) Bulgaria (ISO 3166 digram) * BGA – (i) Ball Grid Array – Brandy and Ginger Ale (

alcoholic beverage An alcoholic beverage (also called an alcoholic drink, adult beverage, or a drink) is a drink that contains ethanol, a type of alcohol that acts as a drug and is produced by fermentation of grains, fruits, or other sources of sugar. The c ...

) * BGD – (s) Bangladesh (ISO 3166 trigram) * BGN – (i) U.S. Board on Geographic Names – (s)

Bulgarian lev The lev ( bg, лев, plural: / , ; ISO 4217 code: BGN; numeric code: 975) is the currency of Bulgaria. In old Bulgarian the word "lev" meant "lion", the word 'lion' in the modern language is ''lаv'' (; in Bulgarian: ). The lev is divided in 10 ...

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currency code) * BGR – (s) Bulgaria (ISO 3166 trigram) * BGS – (i) Bristol Grammar School – British Geographical Survey * BGWG – (p) Battle Group Wargame (military simulation; "big wig")

BH

* bh – (s)

Bihari languages Bihari is a group of the Indo-Aryan languages. The Bihari languages are mainly spoken in the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh and also in Nepal.Brass, Paul R. (1974). ''Language, Religion and Politics in North Ind ...

(ISO 639-1 code) * Bh – (s)

Bohrium Bohrium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Bh and atomic number 107. It is named after Danish physicist Niels Bohr. As a synthetic element, it can be created in a laboratory but is not found in nature. All known isotopes of bohriu ...

* BH ** (s) Bahrain (ISO 3166 digram) ** Belize (FIPS 10-4 country code) * BHD – (s) Bahraini

dinar The dinar () is the principal currency unit in several countries near the Mediterranean Sea, and its historical use is even more widespread. The modern dinar's historical antecedents are the gold dinar and the silver dirham, the main coin of ...

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currency code) * BHR – (s) Bahrain (ISO 3166 trigram) * BHS ** (i) British Home Stores ** (s) The Bahamas (ISO 3166 trigram)

BI

* bi – (s) Bislami language (ISO 639-1 code) * Bi – (s) Bismuth * BI – (s)

(ISO 3166 digram) * BIAP – (a)

Baghdad International Airport Baghdad International Airport , previously Saddam International Airport ( ar, مطار بغداد الدولي, Maṭār Baġdād ad-Dawaliyy) is Iraq's largest international airport, located in a suburb about west of downtown Baghdad in the ...

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Biafran pound The pound (symbol £) was the currency of the breakaway Republic of Biafra between 1968 and 1970. The first notes, in denominations of 5 /– and £1, were introduced on January 29, 1968. A series of coins was issued in 1969; 3 d, 6d, 1 /–, an ...

* BICS – (i/a) Battlefield Information and Communication System * BID – (i) '' bis in die'' (Latin, "twice a day") * BIDST – (i) British Institute of Dental and Surgical Technologists * BIF – (s) Burundian franc (

currency code) * bih – (s)

(ISO 639-2 code) * BIH – (s) Bosnia and Herzegovina (ISO 3166 trigram) *

BIOS In computing, BIOS (, ; Basic Input/Output System, also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform hardware initialization during the ...

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Basic Input/Output System In computing, BIOS (, ; Basic Input/Output System, also known as the System BIOS, ROM BIOS, BIOS ROM or PC BIOS) is firmware used to provide runtime services for operating systems and programs and to perform Computer hardware, hardware initializ ...

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* BIP – (a) Battlefield Interoperability Programme (ancestor of MIP) – Broadcast incremental power algorithm * bis – (s) Bislami language (ISO 639-2 code) * BISEPS – (a) Battlefield Identification System Environment Performance Simulation * BIST – (a) Built-In Self-Test * BIT – (a) Bilateral Investment Treaty –

Built-In Test A built-in self-test (BIST) or built-in test (BIT) is a mechanism that permits a machine to test itself. Engineers design BISTs to meet requirements such as: *high reliability *lower repair cycle times or constraints such as: *limited technic ...

* BITE – (a) Built-In Test Equipment

BJ

* BJ – (s) Benin (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Blowjob ( oral sex) *

BJJ Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ; pt, jiu-jitsu brasileiro ) is a self-defence martial art and combat sport based on grappling, ground fighting (ne-waza) and submission holds. BJJ focuses on the skill of taking an opponent to the ground, controll ...

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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ; pt, jiu-jitsu brasileiro ) is a self-defence martial art and combat sport based on grappling, ground fighting (ne-waza) and submission holds. BJJ focuses on the skill of taking an opponent to the ground, control ...

* BJP – (i) Bharatiya Janata Party ( Indian People's Party) *

BJT A bipolar junction transistor (BJT) is a type of transistor that uses both electrons and electron holes as charge carriers. In contrast, a unipolar transistor, such as a field-effect transistor, uses only one kind of charge carrier. A bipolar t ...

– (i) Bipolar Junction Transistor

BK

* Bk – (s) Berkelium * BK ** (i)

Burger King Burger King (BK) is an American-based multinational chain store, chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. Headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida, the company was founded in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida–based res ...

** (p) Bankrupt (most often seen as "gone BK") ** (s) Bosnia and Herzegovina (FIPS 10-4 country code) *

BKN Bohbot Entertainment was an American advertising and marketing company specializing in the children's market founded in 1985, and had traded under various different names over the years. The company produced and distributed programming under thei ...

– (s) Broken Sky (METAR Code)

BL

* BL ** (s)

Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...

(FIPS 10-4 country code) ** (i) British Leyland * BLCSE – (i) Battle Laboratory Constructive Simulation Environment * BLDU – (s) Blowing Dust (METAR Code) *

BLEVE A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE, ) is an explosion caused by the rupture of a vessel containing a pressurized liquid that has reached temperature above its boiling point. Because the boiling point of a liquid rises with p ...

– (a) Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion ("blevy") * BLK – (i) ''

Basket Liga Kobiet Basket Liga Kobiet (BLK), currently known for sponsorship reasons as Energa Basket Liga Kobiet (EBLK; 2001–2013 Polska Liga Koszykówki Kobiet, PLKK) is a professional women's club basketball league in Poland. It constitutes the first and highes ...

'' (Polish, "Women's Basketball League") *

BLOB Blob may refer to: Science Computing * Binary blob, in open source software, a non-free object file loaded into the kernel * Binary large object (BLOB), in computer database systems * A storage mechanism in the cloud computing platform Mic ...

– (p) Binary Large OBject * BLR – (s) Belarus (ISO 3166 trigram) * BLSA – (s) Blowing Sand (METAR Code) * BLRSI – Battle Lab Reconfigurable Simulator (U.S. Army) * BLSN – (s) Blowing Snow (METAR Code) * BLT – (i)

Bacon Bacon is a type of salt-cured pork made from various cuts, typically the belly or less fatty parts of the back. It is eaten as a side dish (particularly in breakfasts), used as a central ingredient (e.g., the bacon, lettuce, and tomato sand ...

Lettuce Tomato ( sandwich) * BLUFOR – (p) Blue Force(s) (military) * BLUI – (a/i) Body Language User Interface ("blooie") * BLZ – (s) Belize (ISO 3166 trigram) *

BLM BLM most commonly refers to: * Black Lives Matter, an international anti-racism movement and organization * Bureau of Land Management, a U.S. federal government agency BLM may also refer to: Organizations * BLM (law firm), United Kingdom and ...

- (a) Black Lives Matter

BM

* bm – (s)

(ISO 639-1 code) * BM – (i) Battle Management – (s) Bermuda (ISO 3166 digram) –

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...

(FIPS 10-4 country code; from ''Burma'') * BMA – (i)

British Medical Association The British Medical Association (BMA) is a registered trade union for doctors in the United Kingdom. The association does not regulate or certify doctors, a responsibility which lies with the General Medical Council. The association's headquar ...

* BMCC – (i) Borough of Manhattan Community College * BMD – (i) Ballistic Missile Defence – (s) Bermudian dollar (

currency code) – (i) ''Boyevaya Mashina Desanta'' (Russian Боевая Машина Десанта, "Combat Vehicle Airborne") † – British Military Doctrine * BMDG – (i) British Military Doctrine Group *

BMDO The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) was an agency of the United States Department of Defense that began on 20 May 1974 with the responsibility for all U.S. ballistic missile defense efforts. It was renamed the Missile Defense Agenc ...

– (i) (U.S.) Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ("bim-do") * BME – (p) Biomedical Engineering – (i) Black and Minority Ethnic group – Body Modification

E-zine An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to being online only was the computer magaz ...

BMEWS The RCA 474L Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS, "474L System", Project 474L) was a United States Air Force Cold War early warning radar, computer, and communications system, for ballistic missile detection. The network of twelve ra ...

– (a/i) Ballistic Missile Early Warning System ("bee-mews") * BMI – (i)

Body Mass Index Body mass index (BMI) is a value derived from the mass (weight) and height of a person. The BMI is defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body height, and is expressed in units of kg/m2, resulting from mass in kilograms and he ...

– Broadcast Music Incorporated -

British Midland International British Midland Airways Limited (trading at various times throughout its history as British Midland, bmi British Midland, bmi or British Midland International) was an airline with its head office in Donington Hall in Castle Donington, close to ...

BMG BMG may refer to: Organizations * Music publishing companies: ** Bertelsmann Music Group, a 1987–2008 division of Bertelsmann that was purchased by Sony on October 1, 2008 *** Sony BMG, a 2004–2008 joint venture of Bertelsmann and Sony that wa ...

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Bertelsmann Music Group Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) was a division of a German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008. Although it was established in 1987, the music com ...

* BML – (i) Battle Management Language * BMNT – (i) Begin Morning Nautical Twilight * BMP – (i) ''Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoti'' (Russian Боевая Машина Пехоты, "Combat Vehicle for the Infantry") † * BMR – (i) Basal metabolic rate – ''Bronirovannaya Mashina Razminirovaniya'' (Russian Бронированная Машина Разминирования, "Armoured Vehicle for Mine-Clearing") † * BMU – (s) Bermuda (ISO 3166 trigram) * BMW – (i) ''Bayerische Motoren Werke'' (German, "Bavarian Motor Works") *

BMX BMX, an abbreviation for bicycle motocross or bike motocross, is a cycle sport performed on BMX bikes, either in competitive BMX racing or freestyle BMX, or else in general street or off-road recreation. History BMX began during the earl ...

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Bicycle A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-powered assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A is called a cyclist, or bicyclist. Bic ...

/Bike Moto (r) Cross

BN

* bn – (s) Bengali language (ISO 639-1 code) * Bn – (s) Battalion * BN ** (s) Brunei (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) ** (i) Barisan Nasional (Malaysia) * BND – (s) Brunei dollar (

currency code) * BnF – (i) ''

Bibliothèque nationale de France The Bibliothèque nationale de France (, 'National Library of France'; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites known respectively as ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository ...

'' (French, "National Library of France") * BNF ** (i)

Backus–Naur form In computer science, Backus–Naur form () or Backus normal form (BNF) is a metasyntax notation for context-free grammars, often used to describe the syntax of languages used in computing, such as computer programming languages, document formats ...

(computing) ** British National Formulary * BNICE – (a) Biological, Nuclear, Incendiary, Chemical, and Explosive Agents * BNP ** (i) British National Party ** ''Banque Nationale de Paris'', a predecessor to today's

BNP Paribas BNP Paribas is a French international banking group, founded in 2000 from the merger between Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP, "National Bank of Paris") and Paribas, formerly known as the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. The full name of the grou ...

* BNS – (i) Bank of Nova Scotia * BNSF – (i/s) Burlington Northern Santa Fe (also

AAR AAR or Aar may refer to: Geography * Aar, a river in Switzerland, tributary of the Rhine *Aar (Lahn), a tributary of Lahn river in Germany, descending from the Taunus mountains * Aar (Dill), a tributary of Dill river in Germany, also in the bas ...

reporting mark)

BO

* bo – (s) Tibetan language (ISO 639-1 code) * BO ** (i) Back Orifice ** (s) Belarus (FIPS 10-4 country code) ** (i) Biarritz Olympique (French rugby union club) ** (s)

(ISO 3166 digram) ** (i)

Body odor Body odor or body odour (BO) is present in all animals and its intensity can be influenced by many factors (behavioral patterns, survival strategies). Body odor has a strong genetic basis, but can also be strongly influenced by various diseases ...

* BO2k – (i)

Back Orifice 2000 Back Orifice 2000 (often shortened to BO2k) is a computer program designed for remote system administration. It enables a user to control a computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system from a remote location. The name is a pun on Micr ...

* BOAC – (i) British Overseas Airways Corporation (predecessor of British Airways) * BoAML –

Bank of America Merrill Lynch BofA Securities, Inc., previously Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), is an American multinational investment banking division under the auspices of Bank of America. It is not to be confused with Merrill, the stock brokerage and trading plat ...

* BOAT – (p)

Byway Open to All Traffic A byway in the United Kingdom is a track, often rural, which is too minor to be called a road. These routes are often unsurfaced, typically having the appearance of 'green lanes'. Despite this, it is legal (but may not be physically possible) to ...

(pronounced as two syllables, "Bo-At") * BOB – (s)

boliviano The boliviano (; sign: BsBanco Central de Bolivia. "Galeria de monedas y billetes''." Accessed 26 February 2011.Banco Central de BoliviaOfficial websiteAccessed 26 February 2011. ISO 4217 code: BOB) is the currency of Bolivia. It is divided ...

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currency code) - Bank One Ballpark * BOBFOC – (a) Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch (description) * BOBFOK – (a) Body of Barbie, face of Ken (description) * BOC ** (i) British Orthodontic Society ** BOC * BÖC – (i) Blue Öyster Cult * bod – (s) Tibetan language (ISO 639-2 code) * BOD – (i) Biochemical Oxygen Demand *

BODMAS In mathematics and computer programming, the order of operations (or operator precedence) is a collection of rules that reflect conventions about which procedures to perform first in order to evaluate a given mathematical expression. For exampl ...

– (a) Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction * BOFH – (i) Bastard Operator From Hell * BOGA – (a) Bend Over and Grab Ankles *

BOGOF "Buy one, get one free" or "two for the price of one" is a common form of sales promotion. Economist Alex Tabarrok has argued that the success of this promotion lies in the fact that consumers value the first unit significantly more than the s ...

– (a) Buy One, Get One Free * BOGSAT – (a) Bunch Of Guys Sitting Around a Table * BOHICA – (a) Bend Over Here It Comes Again * BOI ** (i) Balance Of Investment ** Basis Of Issue * BOL – (s)

(ISO 3166 trigram) * BOM ** (a) Base Object Model ** Bill Of Materials ** Block of the Month quilting term ** Business opportunity meeting * BOP – (i)

Balance of Payments In international economics, the balance of payments (also known as balance of international payments and abbreviated BOP or BoP) of a country is the difference between all money flowing into the country in a particular period of time (e.g., a ...

* BOPB – (i)

Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque (; ), usually known simply as Biarritz, is a French professional rugby union team based in the Basque city of Biarritz, Nouvelle-Aquitaine which competes in the Pro D2, the second division of French rugby. Biarritz p ...

(the complete name of the rugby club) *

BOPD A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are dry barrels, fluid barrels (such as the U.K. beer barrel and U.S. beer barrel), oil barrels, and so forth. For historical reasons the volumes of some barrel units ...

– (i) Barrel of Oil Per Day *

BOQ Boq is a minor character in ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' by L. Frank Baum. Jack Snow, ''Who's Who in Oz'', Chicago, Reilly & Lee, 1954; New York, Peter Bedrick Books, 1988; p. 23. He becomes a more prominent character in Gregory Maguire's 1995 ...

** (i) Bill Of Quotations ** Bachelor Officers' Quarters **

Bank of Queensland The Bank of Queensland (branded BOQ) is an Australian retail bank with headquarters in Brisbane, Queensland. The bank is one of the oldest financial institutions in Queensland, having begun as a building society. It now has 163 branches througho ...

* bos – (s)

Bosnian language Bosnian (; / , ) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian pluricentric language mainly used by ethnic Bosniaks. Bosnian is one of three such varieties considered official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, along with Croatian and ...

(ISO 639-2 code) * BOS – (i) Battlefield Operating System *

BOT Bot may refer to: Sciences Computing and technology * Chatbot, a computer program that converses in natural language * Internet bot, a software application that runs automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet **a Spambot, an internet bot des ...

** (i) Balance of Trade ** (s) Botswana (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166) ** (i)

Build Operate Transfer Build may refer to: * Engineering something * Construction * Physical body stature, especially muscle size; usually of the human body * Build (game engine), a 1995 first-person shooter engine * "Build" (song), a 1987 song by The Housemartins * ...

** (i)

Bank of Thailand The Bank of Thailand (BOT) ( Abrv: ธปท.; th, ธนาคารแห่งประเทศไทย, ) is the central bank of Thailand. History The Bank of Thailand (BOT) was first set up as the Thai National Banking Bureau. The Bank ...

BP

* BP ** (i) Battle Position ** British Petroleum (today, BP does not officially stand for anything) ** (s) Solomon Islands (FIPS 10-4 country code; from ''British Protectorate of the Solomon Islands'') * Bp – (i) Bishop * BPD – (i) Bipolar Personality Disorder * BPM – (i) Beats Per Minute * BPMo – (i) Business Process Mobility * BPV ** (i) Battlefield Planning Visualization **

Bovine papillomavirus Bovine papillomaviruses (BPV) are a paraphyletic group of DNA viruses of the subfamily ''Firstpapillomavirinae'' of ''Papillomaviridae'' that are common in cattle. All BPVs have a circular genome, circular double-stranded DNA genome. Infection c ...

BQ

* BQ ** (s) British Antarctic Territory (former ISO 3166 digram; merged with AQ in 1979) ** Caribbean Netherlands (current ISO 3166 digram; based on the entity's alternate name of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba) ** Navassa Island (FIPS 10-4 territory code)

BR

* br – (s)

Breton language Breton (, ; or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language family spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still widely in use on the European mainland, albeit as a member of t ...

(ISO 639-1 code) * Br – (s) Bromine * Br – "Best regards" used in valediction * BR ** (s) Brazil (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 country code) – Bihar (Indian state code) ** (i)

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

** Break Ranks (marching band term) * BRA – (s) Brazil (ISO 3166 trigram) * BRAG – (a) Bicycle Ride Across Georgia * BRASS – Breathe, Relax, Aim, Sight, Squeeze (Acronym for using a rifle) * BRB ** (s) Barbados (ISO 3166 trigram) ** (i) "Be Right Back" (Internet chat abbreviation) *

BRDM BRDM is an initialism for ''Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Dozornaya Mashina'', (RU Боевая Разведывательная Дозорная Машина), literally "Combat Reconnaissance Patrol Vehicle". The BRDM is a four-wheeled amphibious ve ...

– (i) ''Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Dosornaya Mashina'' (Russian Боевая Разведывательная Дозорная Машина, "Combat Reconnaissance Patrol Vehicle") † *

bre British English (BrE, en-GB, or BE) is, according to Lexico, Oxford Dictionaries, "English language, English as used in Great Britain, as distinct from that used elsewhere". More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in ...

– (s)

(ISO 639-2 code) * BRFSS – (p) Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System ("burf-us", a

CDC The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the National public health institutes, national public health agency of the United States. It is a Federal agencies of the United States, United States federal agency, under the United S ...

health survey covering the U.S. and its territories) * BRI ** (i) Bathroom Readers Institute (publishers of series of "Uncle John's Bathroom Readers" books) **

Belt and Road Initiative The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, or B&R), formerly known as One Belt One Road ( zh, link=no, 一带一路) or OBOR for short, is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the Chinese government in 2013 to invest in nearly 150 ...

(China-led Asian transport initiative) * BRIC – (a) Brazil, Russia, India and

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

* BRICS – (a) Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa * BRIMS – (a) Behavior Representation In Modeling and Simulation (conference) *

BRL The Brazilian real ( pl. '; sign: R$; code: BRL) is the official currency of Brazil. It is subdivided into 100 centavos. The Central Bank of Brazil is the central bank and the issuing authority. The real replaced the cruzeiro real in 1994. ...

– (s) Brazilian real (

currency code) *

BRM British Racing Motors (BRM) was a British Formula One motor racing team. Founded in 1945 and based in the market town of Bourne in Lincolnshire, it participated from 1951 to 1977, competing in 197 grands prix and winning seventeen. BRM wo ...

– (i) ''Boyevaya Razvedyvatelnaya Mashina'' (Russian Боевая Разведывательная Машина, "Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle") † * BRN ** (s) Bahrain (IOC trigram, but not FIFA or ISO 3166) ** (s) Brunei (ISO 3166 trigram) * BRSB – (i) Battlefield Reasoning System Brianna * BRU – (s) Brunei (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)

BS

* bs – (s)

(ISO 639-1 code) * BS ** (s) The Bahamas (ISO 3166 digram) ** Bassas da India (FIPS 10-4 territory code) ** Bachelor of Science degree **

British subject The term "British subject" has several different meanings depending on the time period. Before 1949, it referred to almost all subjects of the British Empire (including the United Kingdom, Dominions, and colonies, but excluding protectorates ...

** Bullshit * BSA ** (i)

Birmingham Small Arms The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and ma ...

(motorcycles company) ** Boy Scouts of America ** Brigade Support Area * BSatCoP – Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins *

BSD The Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berk ...

** (s) Bahamian dollar (

currency code) ** (i)

Berkeley Software Distribution The Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Standard Distribution (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berk ...

(distinct from BSoD) * BSE – (i) Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease * BSE – (i) Buku Sekolah Elektronik (

screw thread A screw thread, often shortened to thread, is a helical structure used to convert between rotational and linear movement or force. A screw thread is a ridge wrapped around a cylinder or cone in the form of a helix, with the former being called a ...

),http://www.tbkarunia.com *

BSF BSF may refer to: Organisations * Ballerup-Skovlunde Fodbold, a Danish football club * British Skin Foundation, a UK charity raising money for skin disease and skin cancer research * Bibliothèques Sans Frontières, an international non profit * ...

– (i) British Standard Fine (

) * BSL ** (i) '' Basketbol Süper Ligi'' (Turkish, "Basketball Super League"; top Turkish men's league) ** British Sign Language * BSMB – (i) British Society for Matrix Biology * BSN ** '' Baloncesto Superior Nacional'' (Spanish, "National Superior Basketball"; top Puerto Rican league) ** ''

Bank Simpanan Nasional Bank Simpanan Nasional (English: National Savings Bank) (BSN) is a government owned bank based in Malaysia. BSN offers banking services via BSN branches and BSN Banking Agents (EB BSN). BSN was incorporated on 1 December 1974 under the Minister ...

'' (Malay, "National Savings Bank"; government-owned Malaysian bank) * BSNL ** Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited ** (i) Bachelor of Science in Nursing * BSoD – (i) Blue Screen of Death (distinct from BSD) * BSP ** (i) Between-Show Promotion ** Binary Space Partitioning ** Board Support Package ** British Standard Pipe (

) ** (p) Business-sponsored ** Bone sialoprotein *

BSS BSS may stand for: Computing and telecommunications * .bss ("Block Started by Symbol"), in compilers and linkers * Base station subsystem, in mobile telephone networks * Basic Service Set, the basic building block of a wireless local area networ ...

** Block Starting with Symbol – see

.bss In computer programming, the block starting symbol (abbreviated to .bss or bss) is the portion of an object file, executable, or assembly language code that contains statically allocated variables that are declared but have not been assigned a v ...

** Boxed Set Syndrome – where one starts watching a boxed set of DVDs and just can't stop until you've watched them all * BST ** (i) Binary search tree ** Blended Sales Tax ** (p)

Bovine somatotropin Bovine somatotropin or bovine somatotrophin (abbreviated bST and BST), or bovine growth hormone (BGH), is a peptide hormone produced by cows' pituitary glands. Like other hormones, it is produced in small quantities and is used in regulating ...

** (i)

British Summer Time During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in effect changing the time zone from UTC±00:00 to UTC+01:00, so that mornings have one hour less daylight, and ev ...

* BSW – (i)

British Standard Whitworth British Standard Whitworth (BSW) is an imperial-unit-based screw thread standard, devised and specified by Joseph Whitworth in 1841 and later adopted as a British Standard. It was the world's first national screw thread standard, and is the basis ...

(

) ** BSW - Blind Spot Warning, see

Blind spot monitor The blind spot monitor or blind-spot monitoring is a vehicle-based sensor device that detects other vehicles located to the driver’s side and rear. Warnings can be visual, audible, vibrating, or tactile. Blind spot monitors may do more than ...

* BSX – (i)

Bendigo Stock Exchange Bendigo Stock Exchange (BSX) was a small stock exchange based in Australia. The exchange targeted its listing rules at small to medium-sized businesses and offered lower listing fees than the Australian Securities Exchange. It listed various s ...

BT

* Bt ** (i) Baronet ** ''

Bacillus thuringiensis ''Bacillus thuringiensis'' (or Bt) is a gram-positive, soil-dwelling bacterium, the most commonly used biological pesticide worldwide. ''B. thuringiensis'' also occurs naturally in the gut of caterpillars of various types of moths and butterflie ...

'' * BT ** (i) '' Baal teshuva'' (Hebrew, "master of return") – used to describe a Jew who adopts Orthodox Judaism as an adult **

Bathythermograph The bathythermograph, or BT, also known as the Mechanical Bathythermograph, or MBT; is a device that holds a temperature sensor and a transducer to detect changes in water temperature versus depth down to a depth of approximately 285 meters (9 ...

** (s) Bhutan (FIPS 10-4 country code; ISO 3166 digram) ** (i) BitTorrent ** British Telecom, the former name of the company now known as BT Group * BTDT – (i) Been There, Done That *

Bti BTI or Bti may refer to: ;Acronyms * Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti), a bacterium * Barisan Tani Indonesia * Baron Tornado Index of tornado probability * ''Before the Impact'', an American TV series * Beverage Testing Institute * Bicycl ...

– (i) ''

Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis ''Bacillus thuringiensis'' serotype ''israelensis'' (Bti) is a group of bacteria used as biological control agents for larvae stages of certain dipterans. Bti produces toxins which are effective in killing various species of mosquitoes, fungu ...

'' * BTID – (i) Battlefield Target Identification Device * BTIS – (i) Battlefield Target Identification System * BTN ** (s) Bhutan (ISO 3166 trigram) ** Bhutanese ngultrum (

currency code) * BTO (disambiguation), BTO – (i) Build to order, Built To Order * BTP (disambiguation), BTP – (i) British Transport Police * BTR (disambiguation), BTR – (i) ''Bronetransporter'' (БТР = Бронетранспортер "(Heavy) Armoured (Personnel) Transporter") † * BTS ** (p) ''Bangtan Sonyeondan'' (Korean, 방탄소년단; literally "Bulletproof Boy Scouts"), expansion of the name of South Korean band BTS ** (i) Base transceiver station ** Beyond the Scene, promoted by the band BTS as an alternate expansion of its initialism ** Build to stock (production approach) ** Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. federal agency ** Business Training Systems, original name of the Swedish professional services firm BTS Group * BTU – (i) British Thermal Unit * BTW (disambiguation), BTW – (s) By The Way

BU

* BU (disambiguation), BU – (s) ** Bulgaria (FIPS 10-4 country code) – **Myanmar, Burma (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete since 1989) * BUAV – (i) British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection * BUG-E – (a) Battlefield Universal Gateway Equipment ("buggy") * Bul (disambiguation), bul – (s) Bulgarian language (ISO 639-2 code) * Bul (disambiguation), BUL – (s) Bulgaria (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166) * BUNO or BuNo – (p) Bureau Number (aircraft serial number) * BUR (disambiguation), BUR – (s) Myanmar, Burma (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1989)

BV

* BV (disambiguation), BV – (i) **Background Vocals – **Battlefield Visualization – (s) **Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 digram; FIPS 10-4 territory code) * BVB (disambiguation), BVB ** (p) ''Ballspielverein Borussia 09 e.V. Dortmund'', the full German name of the football club known in English as Borussia Dortmund ** ''Bursa de Valori București'' (Romanian language, Romanian for Bucharest Stock Exchange) * BVD – (i) Bradley, Voorhees & Day (underwear manufacturer) * BVR – (i) Beyond Visual Range * BVT (disambiguation), BVT – (s) Bouvet Island (ISO 3166 trigram)

BW

* B&W – (i) Babcock & Wilcox – Black and White – Bowers & Wilkins * BW (disambiguation), BW – (s) Bring Wedges (ISO digram) * BW (disambiguation), BW – (s) Botswana (ISO 3166 digram) * BWA (disambiguation), BWA – (s) Botswana (ISO 3166 trigram) * BWARS – (a) Bees, Wasps & Ants Recording Society * BWC (disambiguation), BWC – (p) Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention * BWP (disambiguation), BWP – (s) Botswana pula (

currency code) * BWR – (i) Boiling-Water Reactor

BX

* BX (disambiguation), BX – (p) Base eXchange – (s)

BY

* By (disambiguation), BY – (s) **

(FIPS 10-4 country code) – ** Belarus (ISO 3166 digram) * BYOB – (i) Bring Your Own Bottle (or "beer", "beverage", or "booze") (multiple, but similar, meanings) * BYOC – (i) Bring Your Own Computer (play on BYOB) * BYOF – (i) Bring Your Own Flask * BYR – (s) Belarusian rubel (

currency code) * BYS (disambiguation), BYS – (s) Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete since 1992) * BYU – (i) Brigham Young University

BZ

* BZ (disambiguation), BZ – (s) Belize (ISO 3166 digram) * BZD (disambiguation), BZD – (s) Belize dollar (

currency code) * BZP (disambiguation), BZP – (p) Benzylpiperazine

References

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