Glossary B

Breaker is defined as a device usually found in the home, on a pole or in a substation. It is designed to open automatically when a fault occurs. It can be operated manually or automatically.

Deutsch: Board

The term board may refer to the following:

• a long, thin, flat piece of wood, wood byproducts or other rigid material, used for various purposes
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Blended whisky is defined by ATF as a mixture which contains straight whisky, or a blend of straight whiskies, at not less than 20 per cent on a proof-gallon basis, excluding alcohol derived from added harmless coloring, flavoring or blending materials, and, separately, or in combination.

The term barrow may refer to the following:

• a male domestic pig that has been castrated before reaching maturation
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A Barge is a cargo-carrying vehicle used primarily by inland water carriers. The basic barges have open tops, but there are covered barges for both dry and liquid cargos.

The term barcode (or bar code) refers to a type of machine -readable code comprised of numbers and parallel lines of varying widths representing relating to an object to which it is attached.

The acronym BHF may refer to the following:

• Buffered oxide etch (also buffered hydrofluoric acid, buffered hf, BHF), a substance (or etchant) used in microfabrication to chemically remove layers from a surface of a wafer during manufacturing
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The acronym BHP may refer to the following:

• Bottom Hole Pressure, an oil and/or gas-related term for the pressure at the bottom of a hole or wellbore
• Boiler Horsepower, the measure of a boiler's capacity to deliver steam to a steam engine
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