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    Acronyms & abbreviations - B

    BA Bus Adapter
    BAF Biological Air Filter
    BAM Bone Analysis Module
    BAR Browsing, Analysis and Reporting system
    BAT Battery
    BB Broad Band/Bread-Board
    BBM Bread-Board Model
    BC Basic Cover
    Basic Coverage
    Bit Conditioner
    BCE Battery Control Electronic
    BCF Black Command File
    BCPKT Broadcast Packet
    BCR Battery Charge Regulator
    BD Bypass Data
    BDC Baseline Data Collection
    BDR Battery Discharge Regulator
    BEE Best Engineering Estimate
    BEP Back End Processor
    BER Burst Excess Rate
    Bit Error Rate
    BERT Bit Error Rate Tests
    BET-method Brunauer, Emmet and Teller-method (for surface-area characterization)
    BGB BioGloveBox
    BGP Border Gateway Protocol
    BGO Bismuth Germanate Oxide
    BI Business Intelligence applications
    bin Binary
    BioLab Biological Laboratory (multi-user facility)
    BIS British Interplanetary Society
    BITE Built-In Test Equipment
    Bits/s Bits per second
    BIV VEGA Integration Building
    BK Back - Up
    BLK Block
    BM Breadboard Model
    BMD Battery Mode Detector Status (Signal)
    BMP Image file name extension, Bitmap
    BMTC Biotechnology Mammalian Tissue Culture facility
    BNC Bayonet N-Connector (Standard Coaxial Connector)
    BNSC British National Space Centre
    BO Business Objects
    BOL Beginning of Life
    BOM Beginning of Mission
    BOT Beginning of Tape
    BP Broadcast Packet
    BPF Band-Pass Filter
    BPR Budget Preparation and Revision
    bps bits per second
    BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying
    bR Bacteriorhodopsin
    BRAT Bit-Rate-Allocation Table
    BRI  Basic-Rate Interface
    BRIC Countries Brazil, Russia, India, China
    BSSC Board for Software Standardisation and Control
    BSI British Standards Institute
    BSLD Baseline Service-Level Definition
    BSM Belgian Soyuz Mission
    BT British Telecom
    BTW By The Way
    BW Black and White

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