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  • big-endian — 1.   (data, architecture)   A computer architecture in which, within a given multi-byte numeric representation, the most significant byte has the lowest address (the word is stored "big-end-first"). Most processors, including the IBM 370 family, the PDP-10, the Motorola microprocessor families, and most of the various RISC designs current in mid-1993, are big-endian. See -endian. 2.   (networking, standard)   A backward electronic mail address. The world now follows the Internet hostname standard (see FQDN) and writes e-mail addresses starting with the name of the computer and ending up with the country code (e.g. [email protected]). In the United Kingdom the Joint Networking Team decided to do it the other way round (e.g. [email protected]) before the Internet domain standard was established. Most gateway sites required ad-hockery in their mailers to handle this. By July 1994 this parochial idiosyncracy was on the way out and mailers started to reject big-endian addresses. By about 1996, people would look at you strangely if you suggested such a bizarre thing might ever have existed.
  • big-headed — If you describe someone as big-headed, you disapprove of them because they think they are very clever and know everything.
  • big-league — Sports. of or belonging to a major league: a big-league pitcher.
  • bigarreaux — a large, heart-shaped variety of sweet cherry, having firm flesh.
  • bighearted — quick to give or forgive; generous or magnanimous
  • bikini wax — a treatment to remove hair from the bikini line with hot wax
  • bilharzial — relating to bilharzia
  • biliterate — able to read and write in two languages.
  • bill gates — (person)   William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. He was a computer nerd who dropped out of Harvard and one of the first programmers to oppose software piracy ("Open Letter to Hobbyists," Computer Notes, February 3, 1976).
  • billbergia — any bromeliad of the tropical American genus Billbergia, having stiff leaves and flowers with showy, variously colored bracts.
  • billethead — a carved ornamental scroll or volute terminating a stem or cutwater at its upper end in place of a figurehead.
  • billy goat — A billy goat is a male goat.
  • bilocation — the existence of something in two places at the same time
  • bimaculate — marked with two spots.
  • bimaternal — having the genetic material of two mothers but no father
  • bimestrial — lasting for two months
  • bimetallic — consisting of two metals
  • bimodality — the state of being bimodal
  • binational — involving two nations
  • binghamton — city in SC N.Y., on the Susquehanna River: pop. 47,000
  • bingo card — a prepaid postcard inserted in a magazine by its publisher to enable a reader to order free information about advertised products.
  • bingo hall — a building owned by a commercial company in which bingo is played by large numbers of people
  • binoculars — Binoculars consist of two small telescopes joined together side by side, which you look through in order to look at things that are a long way away.
  • binoxalate — an acid containing the group HC 2 O 4 –, as ammonium binoxalate, C 2 H 5 NO 4 ⋅H 2 O.
  • binucleate — having two nuclei
  • biobanking — the practice of creating large-scale repositories of human biological material (eg blood, urine, tissue samples, DNA, etc) designed to further medical research
  • biobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • biocellate — (of animals and plants) marked with two eyelike spots or ocelli
  • bioclastic — (of deposits, esp limestones) derived from shell fragments or similar organic remains
  • biodegrade — to decompose (something)
  • biodynamic — the branch of biology dealing with energy or the activity of living organisms (opposed to biostatics).
  • bioethanol — a biofuel based on alcohol which may be combined with petrol for use in vehicles
  • biographee — a person whose biography has been written
  • biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.
  • biographic — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • biological — Biological is used to describe processes and states that occur in the bodies and cells of living things.
  • biomagnify — to undergo biological magnification.
  • biomedical — Biomedical research examines the effects of drugs and medical techniques on the biological systems of living creatures.
  • bionically — utilizing electronic devices and mechanical parts to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous, or intricate tasks, as by supplementing or duplicating parts of the body: The scientist used a bionic arm to examine the radioactive material.
  • bioorganic — pertaining to the composition and biological activity of carbon-based compounds, especially those of laboratory rather than biogenic origin (contrasted with bioinorganic).
  • bioplastic — plastic suitable for use as a biomaterial.
  • bioprivacy — the state of freedom from others having unauthorized access to biometric data about oneself
  • bioreactor — a machine for growing organisms
  • bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
  • biostatics — the branch of biology that deals with the structure of organisms in relation to their function
  • biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
  • biotically — from a biotic point of view
  • biowarfare — biological warfare.
  • biparental — from two parents
  • biparietal — relating to or connected to both parietal bones
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