Definitions for "B"
Keywords:  alphabet, roman, gomito, septem, sieben
is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 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 the Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.
the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet
The letter 'B' is the second letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is bee .
The B-6th Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) Express is a service of the New York City Subway. It is colored orange on route signs, station signs, and the official subway map, since it runs over the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan. Its normal service pattern is from 145th Street in Harlem, Manhattan, to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, running local north of 59th Street–Columbus Circle and express south of it.
B and B+ are services on the S-train network in Copenhagen. They run between Høje Taastrup and Holte and provide stopping services on the S-train system's Tåstrup radial and the inner part of the Hillerød radial.
B was the name of a programming language developed at Bell Labs. It is almost extinct, as it was replaced by the C language. It was mostly the work of Ken Thompson with contributions from Dennis Ritchie, and first appeared in 1969 or thereabouts.
aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil
a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder
a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels
(physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter
Keywords:  antigen, red, carry, cells, group
the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen
originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins
The referent of the musical note B varies by location.