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burst page n. Syn. banner, sense 1.
busy-wait vi.
buzz vi. 1. Of a program, to run with no indication of progress and perhaps without guarantee of ever finishing
esp. said of programs thought to be executing tight loops of code. A prog...
BWQ /B-W-Q/ n. [IBM: abbreviation, `Buzz Word Quotient'] The percentage of buzzwords in a speech or documents.
Usually roughly proportional to bogosity. See TLA....
by hand adv. [common] 1.
byte /bi:t/ n. [techspeak] A unit of memory or data equal to the amount used to represent one characte
on modern architectures this is usually 8 bits, but may be 9 on 36-bit machines. Some...
byte sex n. [common] The byte sex of hardware is big-endian or little-endia
ee those entries....
bytesexual /bi:t`sek'shu-*l/ adj.
Bzzzt! Wrong. /bzt rong/ excl. [common; Usenet/Interne
C n. 1. The third letter of the English alphabet.
2. ASCII 1000011. 3....

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