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Newer page: version 7 Last edited on Monday, March 8, 2004 9:44:33 am by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
Older page: version 5 Last edited on Sunday, March 7, 2004 10:37:27 pm by StuartYeates Revert
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-! BNC 
+An [Acronym] with many meanings:  
+;; [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].  
  
-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]. 
+;; __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 ]. 
  
-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.  
+;: Also  
+** Barrel Nut Connector  
+** Bayonet Nipple Connector  
+** Bayonet Nut Coupling  
+** Baby N Connector  
+** British Naval Connector  
  
-BNC is an [Acronym ] for many many things:  
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-* Bayonet Neill Concelman connector  
-* Bayonet Nipple Connector  
-* Bayonet Nut Coupling  
-* Baby N Connector  
-* British Naval Connector  
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-BNC is also the name of an [IRC] 'bouncer' proxy program.  
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-See also  
-* [10Base2]  
-* [Ethernet]  
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-[Acronym] for __B__ritish __N__ational __C__orpus.  
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-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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-http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/  
+;: Finally, [ BNC] may also the name of an [IRC] 'bouncer' proxy program.