
Original — December 1991
UM4.6:CS6003
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B&G Acronym: Bias and Gain
Baby N Connector (BNC)
A type of connector for coaxial cable; used for a variety of applications in
PROVOX systems.
Batch A specific quantity of a given product, produced in a single complete
processing procedure.
Baud The unit of measurement of serial transmission speed for digital data.
Baud usually means bits per second, but may have a different meaning if
the encoding method used is frequency multiplexing.
BCD Acronym: Binary-Coded Decimal
Bias A value added to a controller input or output, as part of a control
strategy. For example, bias can determine the nominal setting of a
control valve for a steady-state process.
Bias and Gain A primary control algorithm which calculates its output by adding a bias
value to the process variable and then multiplying the result by a gain
value. A bias and gain algorithm is often appropriate for maintaining a
ratio between two products.
Binary Involving two characteristics, conditions, or possibilities. For example,
base-two numbers (numbers that use only the digits 0 and 1) are binary
numbers.
Binary-Coded Decimal (BCD)
A digital encoding system for decimal numbers: a set of four binary digits
represents each decimal digit, 0 through 9.
Bit (Binary Digit) A single place in a binary number. The only possible values for a bit are
0 and 1.
BNC Acronym: Baby N Connector
British Standards Institute (BSI)
An independent organization that defines industrial and technical
standards, used in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
BSI Acronym: British Standards Institute
Buffer 1. A storage device that compensates for different rates of data flow, or
time occurrences of events, when transmitting data from one device to
another.
2. An isolating circuit that prevents a driven circuit from influencing the
driving circuit.
B&G - Buf
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