B What does B stand for? The Free Dictionary

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• Scales
• Derived ligatures, abbreviations, signs and symbols
• Related words
• In other languages
• Other definitions for b (3 of
• Words That Start With B

In computer science, B is the symbol for byte, a unit of information storage. (sometimes l.c.) a grade or mark indicating that academic work, a product, etc., is good but not of the highest quality. N., pl. Bs B's, bs b's.

The second letter of the English alphabet, a consonant. The second letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script. The second letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called bí and written in the Latin script. The second letter of the Welsh alphabet, called bi and written in the Latin script. The second letter of the Turkish alphabet, called be and written in the Latin script. The second letter of the Spanish alphabet, called be and written in the Latin script.

Scales

I mean- after / before a meal? With what foods? Etc. People love creating abbreviations … and what’s the easiest abbreviation to create? One that is one letter … voila, here’sB. In fact, this abbreviation has been in use since at least 2005, according to Urban Dictionary entries.

The production version of the language as used on GCOS, including language and runtime library. B was derived from BCPL, and its name may possibly be a contraction of BCPL. Thompson's coworker Dennis Ritchie speculated that the name might be based on Bon, an earlier, but unrelated, programming language that Thompson designed for use on Multics. However, in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia, the label B is sometimes used for what, above, is called B-flat, and the note a semitone below C is called H. The ordinal number second, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called bee and written in the Latin script.

Derived ligatures, abbreviations, signs and symbols

Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. The blood-type B emoji (🅱️) was added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, and became a popular internet meme in 2018 where letters would be replaced with the emoji. The seventh tone of the ascending C major scale.

This article is about a programming language developed at Bell Labs. For "b" language of Meertens and Pemberton, see ABC . For other uses, see B .

Related words

The second letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script. The second letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script. The third letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called bé and written in the Latin script.

These Old English Latin alphabets supplanted the earlier runes, whose use was fully banned under King Canute in the early 11th century. The Norman Conquest popularised the Carolingian half-uncial forms which latter developed into blackletter ⟨⟩. Around 1300, letter case was increasingly distinguished, with upper- and lower-case B taking separate meanings. The present forms of the English cursive B were developed by the 17th century. Starting in 1971 Ritchie made changes to the language while converting its compiler to produce machine code, most notably adding data typing for variables. During 1971 and 1972 B evolved into "New B" and then C.

Other definitions for b (7 of

For example, compare the various cognates of the word brother. It is the seventh least frequently used letter in the English language , with a frequency of about 1.5% in words. In English, it is sometimes silent.

This article is about the letter of the Latin alphabet. For the similar Greek letter, see Beta. For the similar Cyrillic letter, see Ve . For the German letter confused with "B", see ß.

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The second letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script. The third letter of the Polish alphabet, called be and written in the Latin script. The second letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script. The second letter of the Norwegian Bokmål alphabet, written in the Latin script. The second letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script. The second letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

This occurs particularly in words ending in ⟨mb⟩, such as lamb and bomb, some of which originally had a /b/ sound, while some had the letter ⟨b⟩ added by analogy . The ⟨b⟩ in debt, doubt, subtle, and related words was added in the 16th century as an etymological spelling, intended to make the words more like their Latin originals . B Language Reference Manual, Thinkage Ltd.