BASIC

An all purpose auxiliary language suited for Business, Administrative, Scientific, Instructional and Commercial uses.

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BASIC

Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Course.

A 'peoples' high-level computer programming language. BASIC has a history far longer than many other contemporary languages, and is still used by many in the hobby and professional programming communities.

BC

The British Council

United Kingdom's international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations.

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BICS

Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills

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BIOS

Pronounced "bye-ose," an acronym for basic input/output system. The BIOS is built-in software that determines what a computer can do without accessing programs from a disk. On PCs, the BIOS contains all the code required to control the keyboard, display screen, disk drives, serial communications, and a number of miscellaneous functions.

BSE

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), a cattle disease that causes the brain to waste away. It takes about 4-7 years for cattle to show symptoms of the disease after being exposed to it, but once symptoms become visible the cattle die within weeks. One way this disease is spread is by feeding the meat from infected cattle to other cattle (meat from infected sheep may also cause the disease). .. DJN