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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].

;; __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].

;: Also
** Barrel Nut Connector
** Bayonet Nipple Connector
** Bayonet Nut Coupling
** Baby N Connector
** British Naval Connector

;: Finally, [BNC] may also be the name of an [IRC] 'bouncer' proxy program.

One page links to BNC:

10Base2

Last edited on Monday, March 8, 2004 3:51:38 pm by DavidHallett

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