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7 AristotlePagaltzis 1 An [Acronym] with many meanings:
2 ;; [British National Corpus | http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/] : A 100 million word linguistic Corpus of British English widely used in computational linguistics. StuartYeates denies all knowledge of the [BNC].
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7 AristotlePagaltzis 4 ;; __B__ayonet __N__eill-__C__oncelman : A physical connection which is used primarily in [10Base2] ethernet and professional/early video recorders as well as workstation monitors with separate cables for [RGB]. [BNC] allows for two lines of a co-axial cable to be connected with a locking nut to reduce the likelyhood of the join separating. A [BNC] connector has a bayonet-type shell with two small knobs on the female connector which lock into spiral slots in the male connector when it is twisted on. Also known as RG58. See also [10Base2] and [Ethernet].
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7 AristotlePagaltzis 6 ;: Also
7 ** Barrel Nut Connector
8 ** Bayonet Nipple Connector
9 ** Bayonet Nut Coupling
10 ** Baby N Connector
11 ** British Naval Connector
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8 DavidHallett 13 ;: Finally, [BNC] may also be the name of an [IRC] 'bouncer' proxy program.