Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BCD

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Definitions of BCD

1. (astronomy) Initialism of blue compact dwarf.
2. (computing, electronics) Initialism of binary-coded decimal.
3. (computing) Initialism of Boot Configuration Data.
4. (cycling) Initialism of bolt circle diameter (a measurement of the various sizes of chainring).
5. (military) Initialism of bad-conduct discharge.
6. (underwater diving) Initialism of buoyancy control device.
7. Initialism of behind closed doors.
8. (psychology, professional credential) Initialism of board-certified diplomate.

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Examples of Using BCD in a Sentence

• In computing and electronic systems, binary-coded decimal (BCD) is a class of binary encodings of decimal numbers where each digit is represented by a fixed number of bits, usually four or eight.
• BCD (character encoding), a 6-bit superset of binary-coded decimal derived from the binary encoding of the same name.
• For alphabetic characters the setting of bits is derived from the zone and digit punches of the IBM 80 column punched card character code: B,A from 12, B from 11, and A from 0; the setting of bits 8,4,2,1 from BCD encoding of the 1 through 9 punches.
• A buoyancy compensator (BC), also called a buoyancy control device (BCD), stabilizer, stabilisor, stab jacket, wing or adjustable buoyancy life jacket (ABLJ), depending on design, is a type of diving equipment which is worn by divers to establish neutral buoyancy underwater and positive buoyancy at the surface, when needed.
• The bolt circle's measurement is called the bolt circle diameter (BCD), also called the pitch circle diameter (PCD).
• The combined IBM 528 reader and punch behaved like the separate Hollerith units on the earlier DEUCE Mark I machines; however, it was also provided with hardware conversion of alphanumeric data to BCD on input, and vice versa on output.
• Instructions such as 'ADD' were divided into data-size dependent variants such as ADDB, ADDW, ADDL, ADDP, ADDF for add byte, word, longword, packed BCD and single-precision floating point, respectively.
• In addition, the x87 part supports a unique 18-digit (ten-byte) BCD format that can be loaded into and stored from the floating point registers, from where ordinary FP computations can be performed.
• The most significant nibble (bits 30,29,28,27) is the leftmost (or most significant) of a BCD coded numeric datum.
• NGC 1705 is a peculiar lenticular galaxy and a blue compact dwarf galaxy (BCD) in the southern constellation of Pictor, positioned less than a degree to the east of Iota Pictoris, and is undergoing a starburst.
• 2010 – Air Travel BCD: The first of the extremely compact fold-up buoyancy compensators suitable for carry-on luggage in air travel.
• Includes ar, as, bcd, cal, cat, chdir, chmod, chown, cmp, cp, date, dc, df, du, ed, find, glob, init, ld, ln, ls, mail, mesg, mkdir, mkfs, mount, mv, nm, od, pr, rm, rmdir, roff, sh, sort, stat, strip, su, sum, tty, umount, wc, who, write; also precursors of fsck, reboot, and adb.
• The smallest addressable word is a 4-bit nibble which can hold one binary-coded decimal (BCD) digit.
• Maine's Supreme Judicial Court created a statewide Business and Consumer Docket (BCD), which includes within its jurisdiction complex case types that might be found on other states' business and commercial court dockets; but also includes, for example, class actions and complex consumer rights cases arising out of business or government dealings.
• The BCD math libraries internally used by the calculator were rewritten in platform-independent C code run natively rather than System RPL code executed in an emulator.
• The dish became even more widely known when Hee Sook Lee, a first-generation Korean immigrant, opened her sundubu restaurant, BCD Tofu, in Vermont Avenue, Koreatown, and expanded it into a national chain.
• For maximum range and precision, the formats merge part of the exponent and significand into a combination field, and compress the remainder of the significand using either a decimal integer encoding (which uses Densely Packed Decimal, or DPD, a compressed form of BCD) encoding or conventional binary integer encoding.
• CIS also includes a set of six instructions (CVT) to convert BCD numbers between packed and unpacked formats, as well as to and from binary values.
• Type of reference: First Confirmed Date (FCD) / Last or Best Confirmed Date (LCD or BCD) / Customer Request Date (CRD).
• Feddersen, Jan: Connie Francis, companion book to 5 CD retrospective "Lass mir die bunten Träume", Bear Family Records BCD 15 786 EI, Hambergen 1994.
• Tango Perpétuel – BUDA Musique BCD 92630-2 (1995) (CD) (France) – works by Ernesto Nazareth, Juan José Castro, Igor Stravinsky, Gerardo Hernán Matos-Rodríguez, Astor Piazzolla, Ernesto Baffa, Alberto Ginastera, Kurt Weill, Darius Milhaud, Jacob Gades, Alberto Neuman, Isaac Albéniz, Maurice Ohana, Giacomo Puccini, Erik Satie (1995).
• Other six-bit encodings with completely different mappings, such as some FIELDATA variants or Transcode, are sometimes incorrectly termed BCD.
• Binary data types such as two's complement integers, BCD, packed decimals, floats, calendars and Booleans.
• A, B, C, D, E, F, AB, BC, CD, DE, EF, ABC, BCD, CDE, DEF, ABCD, BCDE, CDEF, ABCDE, BCDEF, and ABCDEF.
• Feddersen, Jan: Connie Francis, companion book to 5 CD retrospective "Lass mir die bunten Träume", Bear Family Records BCD 15 786 EI, Hambergen 1994.

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