Technology Terms

Bandwidth To Bean (Technology Terms)

Bandwidth Bandwidth (the width of a band of electromagnetic frequencies) is used to mean (1) how fast data flows on a given transmission path, and (2), somewhat more technically, the width of the range of frequencies that an electronic signal occupies on a given transmission medium. Any digital or analog signal has a bandwidth. Generally […]

Becquerel To Binary search (Technology Terms)

Becquerel The becquerel is the derived unit of radioactivity in the International System of Units (SI), symbolized Bq and equal to one disintegration or nuclear transformation per second. Reduced to base SI units, 1 Bq = 1 s-1. The becquerel is named after Antoine Henri Becquerel, the French physicist credited with the discovery of radioactivity. […]

Favorite Technology Quotations

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? —T.S. Elliot The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that many […]

Binary tree To Bit (Technology Terms)

Binary tree A binary tree is a method of placing and locating files (called records or keys) in a database, especially when all the data is known to be in random access memory (RAM). The algorithm finds data by repeatedly dividing the number of ultimately accessible records in half until only one remains. In a […]

Bit bucket To BMAN (Technology Terms)

Bit bucket Computer jargon users say that data which has been lost or thrown away has gone in the bit bucket. (A bit, short for binary digit, is the smallest unit of data in a computer.) For example, once you read an e-mail note and then delete it, it goes into the bit bucket (which […]

BNC To Bourne shell (Technology Terms)

BNC A BNC (Bayonet Neil-Concelman, or sometimes British Naval Connector) connector is used to connect a computer to a coaxial cable in a 10BASE-2 Ethernet network. 10BASE-2 is a 10 MHz baseband network on a cable extending up to 185 meters—the 2 is a rounding up to 200 meters—without a repeater cable. 10BASE-2 Ethernets are […]

Boustrophedon To Brute force cracking (Technology Terms)

Boustrophedon Boustrophedon (from Greek for ox-turning) is writing that proceeds in one direction in one line (such as from left to right) and then in the reverse direction in the next line (such as from right to left). Some ancient languages, including one form of ancient Greek (650 BC), were written this way. The term […]

BSD To Business intelligence (Technology Terms)

BSD BSD (originally: Berkeley Software Distribution) refers to the particular version of the UNIX operating system that was developed at and distributed from the University of California at Berkeley. "BSD" is customarily preceded by a number indicating the particular distribution level of the BSD system (for example, "4.3 BSD”). BSD UNIX has been popular and […]

Business process reengineering To Cache coherence (Technology Terms)

Business process reengineering Business process reengineering (BPR) is the analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises. BPR reached its heyday in the early 1990′s when Michael Hammer and James Champy published their best-selling book, "Reengineering the Corporation." The authors promoted the idea that sometimes radical redesign and reorganization of an enterprise (wiping the […]

Cache memory To Carbon copy (Technology Terms)

Cache memory Cache memory is random access memory (RAM) that a computer microprocessor can access more quickly than it can access regular RAM. As the microprocessor processes data, it looks first in the cache memory and if it finds the data there (from a previous reading of data), it does not have to do the […]

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