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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | B5 // [common] Abbreviation for "Babylon 5", a science-fiction TV series as revered among hackers as was the original Star Trek. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: B5 |
| Specialty definitions using "B5": hilgardite. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | So if I capsize on your thighs high tide, B5 you sunk my battleship (The Bad Touch; performing artist: Bloodhound Gang) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "B5" is generally used as an alphabetical symbol -- approximately 71.70% of the time. "B5" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Alphabetical Symbol | 71.7% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Unclassified Items | 28.3% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "B5": Cytochrome b5 ♦ vitamin B5 ♦ Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid). Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 35 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 00110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B 5 |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0035 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3623 |
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