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1. ack, n. View full entry 1898
...A syllable used to represent the letter a in signalling and telephone communications, and in the oral spelling of messages....
2. Ada, n.2 View full entry 1979
...(The name of) a high-level programming language used chiefly in real-time control systems, e.g. for aircraft navigation....
3. Ally Pally, n. View full entry 1933
...The familiar nickname of Alexandra Palace in Muswell Hill, north London, the original headquarters of BBC television....
4. ampere, n. View full entry 1861
...(See quot. 1963). ampere-hourampere-turn...
5. Amperian, adj. View full entry 1866
...Pertaining to Ampère or his theory of electromagnetic currents....
6. ASCII, n. View full entry 1963
...A standard seven-bit character code by which information is stored and transmitted in a computer or a data transmission system....
7. AWACS, n. View full entry 1966
...An airborne long-range radar system for detecting other aircraft, including low-flying ones, and controlling weapons directed against them....
8. awe, n.2 View full entry 1503
...One of the float-boards of an undershot water-wheel, on which the water acts....
9. babbitt, n.1 View full entry 1850
...any of various alloys of tin with smaller quantities of antimony, copper, and usually lead, which are typically used as linings in bearings and other mechanisms in order to reduce friction....
10. Backus–Naur, n. View full entry 1964
...a mode of formally describing the syntax of programming languages using a special notation; abbrev. BNFB....
11. BASIC, n.2 View full entry 1964
...A high-level programming language originally developed as a general-purpose language similar to English and easy to learn, and now widely used with personal computers. ...
12. basket, n. View full entry a1300
...A vessel of wickerwork, made of plaited osiers, cane, rushes, bast, or other materials....
13. baud, n. View full entry 1932
...The unit of speed of telegraphic code transmission, the number of bauds being the reciprocal of the duration in seconds of the unit interval. (Freq. used in sing. with pl....
14. beep, n. View full entry 1951
...The sound made by a horn on a motor car or other vehicle; a short high-pitched sound such as is emitted by an echo-sounder, a radar device, etc. Also attrib....
15. bel, n. View full entry 1929
...A unit, equivalent to ten decibels (see decibel), used in the comparison of two levels of power in an electrical communication circuit. (Non-technical sense in quot. 1958.) ...
16. Benioff, n. View full entry 1936
...Used attrib. and absol. with reference to a type of seismograph invented by Benioff (Bull. Seismol. Soc. Amer.1935, 25 283–309), in which a...
17. big, adj. and adv. View full entry c1300
...Of a person or animal: strong, sturdy, mighty; stout-hearted, courageous. Cf. rich1. Obs....
18. billy, n.3 View full entry 1839
...A cylindrical container, usu. of tin or enamel ware, with a close-fitting lid and a wire handle, used for making tea and for cooking over fires in the open, and for carrying...
19. Biot, n. View full entry 1942
...a dimensionless parameter used in calculations of heat transfer between a solid and a surrounding liquid or gas in a state other than a steady state....
20. Blattnerphone, n. View full entry 1931
...An instrument for recording sound on magnetic tape. Also attrib....
