About The Word B
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What's The Definition Of B?
[n] aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations
[n] the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet [n] the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen [n] (atomic or nuclear physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter [n] a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels [n] a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [n] originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins Synonyms | Synonyms for B: atomic number 5 | B complex | B vitamin | bacilli | bacillus | barn | B-complex vitamin | bel | boron | group B | type B | vitamin B | vitamin B complex Related Terms | Find terms related to B: See Also | adermin | alphabetic character | aneurin | antiberiberi factor | antipernicious anemia factor | area unit | biotin | blood group | blood type | borax | chemical element | choline | cobalamin | cyanocobalamin | element | eubacteria | eubacterium | folacin | folate | folic acid | genus Bacillus | hepatoflavin | inositol | kernite | lactoflavin | letter | letter of the alphabet | niacin | nicotinic acid | ovoflavin | pantothen | pantothenic acid | pteroylglutamic acid | pteroylmonoglutamic acid | pyridoxal | pyridoxamine | pyridoxine | riboflavin | Roman alphabet | sound unit | square measure | thiamin | thiamine | true bacteria | vitamin B1 | vitamin B12 | vitamin B2 | vitamin B6 | vitamin Bc | vitamin G | vitamin H | vitamin M | water-soluble vitamin B In Webster's Dictionary \B\ (b[=e])
is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to
Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 196, 220.) It is etymologically
related to p, v, f, w and m, letters representing sounds
having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng.
bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. ferre; Eng. silver and
Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven,
Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr."epta`,
Sanskrit saptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B
(Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual
change from the capital B.
Note: In Music, B is the nominal of the seventh tone in the
model major scale (the scale of C major ), or of the
second tone in it's relative minor scale (that of A
minor ) . B[flat] stands for B flat, the tone a half
step, or semitone, lower than B. In German, B stands
for our B[flat], while our B natural is called H
(pronounced h["a]).
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