B

Word B
Character 1
Hyphenation b
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Definitions and meanings of "B"

What do we mean by b?

Barn abbreviation

Bel abbreviation

Bottom quark abbreviation

Breadth abbreviation

The second letter of the modern English alphabet. noun

Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter b. noun

The second in a series. noun

Something shaped like the letter B. noun

The second best or second highest in quality or rank. noun

The seventh tone in the scale of C major or the second tone in the relative minor scale. noun

A key or scale in which B is the tonic. noun

A written or printed note representing this tone. noun

A string, key, or pipe tuned to the pitch of this tone. noun

One of the four major blood groups in the ABO system. Individuals with this blood group have the B antigen on the surface of their red blood cells, and the anti-A antibody in their blood serum. noun

The second letter in order in the English alphabet, as it was in the Phenician, and has been in most other alphabets derived from the Phenician. (See A.)

As a numeral, B was used by the Hebrews and Greeks, as now by the Arabians, for 2.

As a symbol: In music, the seventh tone, or “leading tone,” of the model diatonic scale, or scale of C.

In chem., the symbol of boron.

In ornithology, the accessory femorocaudal muscle, one of the chief classificatory muscles of the leg.

Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

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The word "b" in example sentences

The division-frame itself is closed by having two sheets of zinc run into it as shown in fig. 2, the one marked _b b b b_, and partly drawn out, being of solid sheet zinc; and _a a_, the other in the frame, of perforated zinc; _d_, being the screw-nut (like those in the bee-frames) by means of which it can be drawn out into the observation-frame, &c. ❋ William Augustus Munn (N/A)

Or again, he noticed that if b is the length of the side of a square, then b² represents its area, and b³ the volume of the cube with edge equal to b. ❋ Unknown (1910)

Demz b speshul sunglarsis wif teh mirrer sew u cna sii hoo is following u n teh blak van…..b caerful! ❋ Unknown (2010)

ˆ« M pm (s, t ‰ | a, b ‰) (st ‰) dρ and likewise when (a, b²), ❋ Shimony, Abner (2009)

˜The boy sang™ is simply ˜Sang (b)™, where ˜b™ is a an unstructured symbol that stands for the boy in question (and presents him in a certain way). ❋ Pietroski, Paul (2009)

When the wave is switched off, the photon propagates in the zeroth order of diffraction to polarization analyzers respectively oriented at angles a and b, and when it is switched on the photons propagate in the first order of diffraction to polarization analyzers respectively oriented at angles a² and b². ❋ Shimony, Abner (2009)

Different experiments can be performed on each system, those on 1 designated by a, a², etc. and those on 2 by b, b², etc. ❋ Shimony, Abner (2009)

Nevertheless, in a suitable conversational setting, the phrases (b) and (b²) can be properly used to designate any of the three events: the act that turned on the light, the onset of illumination in the light, and whole process whereby the light has come to be turned on. ❋ Wilson, George (2007)

But we can see that the number of chains in which b is combined with a is equal to the number of chains in which b is not combined with a. In fact we have that P (b | a) = P (~b | ~a) = ❋ Faye, Jan (2005)

The plates themselves are shaped as depicted in Fig. 55, _a, b, c, a_ and _b_ curved to meet the outlines of the shoe, and _c_ shaped so as to wedge tightly over the posterior ends of the side plates, and between them and the shoe. ❋ Harry Caulton Reeks (N/A)

Now instead of running the braces from A C until they meet in a point, as before we stop them at a, and c, and place the straining beam, a c, between them to prevent those points from approaching, suspend the points B and D from them, and start the braces B b and D b-- and, if the truss were longer, would continue on in the same manner as far as needful. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In the illustrations, h, m, and b are the high, intermediate, and low pressure cylinders of one set of engines; as will be seen, each cylinder is on a separate frame connected by girders; directly above the cylinders are the two low and the one high pressure air cylinders, b¹, m¹, and h¹ respectively. ❋ Various (N/A)

B. Axillary artery; b, brachial artery, in the upper part of its course, having h, the median nerve, lying rather to its outer side; b*, the artery in the lower part of its course, with the median nerve to its inner side. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

Limbus laminæ spiralis, with a, the teeth of the first row; b, b’, the auditory teeth of the other rows; c, c’, the interdental grooves and the cells which are lodged in them. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The red arrow, a, a’, indicates the course the lateral cerebrospinal fasciculus takes at the level of the decussation of the pyramids; the blue arrow, b, b’, indicates the course which the sensory fibers take. ❋ Unknown (1918)

The next, "With longyng y am lad," is pretty, though less so: and is in ten-line stanzas of sixes, rhymed _a a b, a a b, b a a b_. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

Suppose, Lotze says in effect, and for simplicity's sake I have to paraphrase him, for his own words are too long to quote -- many distinct beings _a, b, c_, etc., to exist independently of each other: _can a in that case ever act on b_? ❋ William James (1876)

In s [u] ch kompoundz az _lim-lama_, lim (b) - lame; _lim-leas_, lim (b) - less; it woz imposibel tu avoid the interkalashon ov a _b_ in pron [u] nsiashon. ❋ Unknown (1861)

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