| formula bar | A bar at the top of the excel window that you use to enter or edit values or formulas in cells or charts. displays the constant value or formula stored in the active cell. |
| clustered bar chart | A bar chart subtype that compares values across categories. |
| stacked bar chart | A bar chart subtype that shows the relationship of individual items to the whole. |
| vertical ruler | A bar displayed along the left side of a document window. you can use the vertical ruler to adjust the top and bottom page margins and the row height in tables. |
| horizontal ruler | A bar marked off in units of measure (such as inches) that is displayed across the top of the document window. |
| movie controller bar | A bar that allows a user to pause, play, back up or rewind a movie as well as to adjust the volume. |
| code 39 | A barcode symbology standard maintained by american national standards institute (ansi). |
| user control | A base control that provides a way to create a reusable custom control without having to create a new control class. |
| user-defined type | - A base data type that is explicitly defined by using the precompiler typedef directive.
- A user-written extension to the scalar type system in sql server.
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| standard rate | A base rate that you assign to resources [such as people, equipment, or material] and that project uses to calculate resource cost totals. |
| storage key | A base64 encoded identification string required to access storage accounts in azure that is created automatically when creating a storage account. |
| key seed | A base64-encoded 30-byte value that is used in conjunction with a key id to create a content key. |
| standard report | A basic collection and representation of data that helps csrs keep track of key performance indicators (kpis), such as the number of tickets solved or the view count of a knowledgebase article. |
| rom basic | A basic interpreter stored in rom (read-only memory) so that the user can start programming after simply turning on the machine, without having to load basic from a disk or tape. rom basic was a f... |
| canvas panel | A basic layout panel that supports absolute positioning and does not apply any layout policy (for example, auto sizing) to its child elements -€” it is literally a blank canvas. cap (n) |
| graphics primitive | A basic shape (a point, a line, circle, curve, or polygon) that a graphics adapter can manipulate as a discrete entity. |
| external item picker | A bcs feature that allows users of a composite solution to select external data from within an office client application. |
| domain role | A behavior pattern that is assumed by domain entities when participating in role relationships. |
| easing behavior | A behavior that controls how quickly or slowly a property change is animated between keyframes. |
| credential vault service | A behind-the-scene service that is part of credential manager and that actually does the work of creating and managing user credentials to allow users to log on across machines and sites. |
| salary survey reference job | A benchmark job description provided by the administrator of a salary survey (usually a third party) that allows different companies to compare their internal jobs to a standard description found ... |
| internal use rights | A benefit for microsoft partners that gives partner organizations firsthand knowledge of product features and capabilities. |
| pre-tax deduction | A benefit on taxable income to reduce the tax that an employee is liable to pay on gross wages. |
| visual best bet | A best bet that can contain rich visual data, such as a video, image, or piece of html code, in addition to text or links. |
| software asset management | A best practice incorporating a set of proven processes and procedures for managing and optimizing the purchase, deployment, maintenance, utilization, and disposal of software applications within ... |
| logarithmic trendline | A best-fit curved trendline that is used when the rate of change in the data increases or decreases quickly and then levels out. |
| honored bill | A bill of exchange that has been settled. hook (n) |
| sub-bill of material | A bill of material that makes up a component of another bill of material. |
| sub-bom | A bill of material that makes up a component of another bill of material. |
| phantom bill of material | A bill of material used to describe the components of a parent part that will be built as part of a higher-level parent part. the term phantom’ is used to indicate that the part never really exist... |
| phantom bom | A bill of material used to describe the components of a parent part that will be built as part of a higher-level parent part. the term phantom’ is used to indicate that the part never really exist... |
| phantom bill of materials item | A bill of materials item that is produced but not stocked. |
| basic application gateway (large) | A billing meter for the basic application gateway service in azure based on long usage time. |
| basic application gateway (medium) | A billing meter for the basic application gateway service in azure based on mid-sized usage time. |
| basic application gateway (small) | A billing meter for the basic application gateway service in azure based on short usage time. |
| data warehouse unit | A billing meter for the usage of the sql data warehouse service in azure. |
| crash dump | A binary file that a programmer can load into a debugger to analyze the cause of the crash. it contains the contents of the memory when the crash occurred. |
| instrumented module | A binary file that contains profiling probe functions. |
| package resource index file | A binary file used in windows store apps to store resources for all languages, cultures, and scale factors. |
| binary application markup language | A binary representation of the objects and properties declared in an extensible application markup language (xaml) file. |
| huffman tree | A binary tree that minimizes the product of a leaf’s weight and its distance from the root, for all leaves. |
| base 64 encoding | A binary-to-text encoding scheme whereby an arbitrary sequence of bytes is converted to a sequence of printable ascii characters. |
| bind token | A bind token is a character string that uniquely identifies each bound transaction. |
| template binding | A binding between a property on an element in a control template and a property on the control instance to which the template is applied. for example, a button’s background property changes and, b... |
| explicit data context | A binding to a data source within the data context that is specified for the current object or one of its parents. |
| music search | A bing feature that allows the user to find out information about a recording song that is playing on the radio. |
| face scanner | A biometric sensor that analyses data points on your face to recognize or authenticate identity. |
| retinal scanner | A biometric sensor that analyses your eye retina to recognize or authenticate identity. |
| face recognition | A biometric technique that uses the geometry of a person’s face to authenticate identity. limited deployments, such as those for check cashing, are in place. |
| system management bios | A bios developed to enable system-related information, such as information about hardware, to be gathered from computers on a network. |
| smbios | A bios developed to enable system-related information, such as information about hardware, to be gathered from computers on a network. smds (n) |
| plug and play bios | A bios with responsibility for configuring plug and play cards and system-board devices during system power up. provides runtime configuration services for system board devices after startup. |
| dirty bit | A bit used to mark modified data in a cache so that the modifications may be carried over to primary memory. |
| bitwise comparison | A bit-by-bit comparison of identically positioned bits in two numeric expressions. |
| bit-wise comparison | A bit-by-bit comparison of identically positioned bits in two numeric expressions. |
| recovery password file | A bitlocker drive encryption file that uses the naming convention: .bek (including the bitlocker .fve file extension), which contains the recovery key that is required to unseal the volume during ... |
| bitlocker enterprise | A bitlocker extension that adds management capabilities to bitlocker. |
| bitlocker on-write encryption | A bitlocker feature that incrementally encrypts the hard drive as free space is used. |
| raw camera image | A bitmap that the camera obtains and that the developers use to determine additional types of input, such as the size and shape of an object that is placed on the surface screen. |
| biztalk server 2010 management pack | A biztalk enhancement that helps ensure full monitoring capabilities of biztalk applications and infrastructure. it includes features like diagnostics and alerts to help monitor the health of a bi... |
| biztalk settings dashboard | A biztalk feature that biztalk administrators can use to centrally manage and modify biztalk engine settings. administrators can export and import settings from one environment to another, such as... |
| functoid intellisense | A biztalk mapper functionality in which visual cues are provided on the grid surface, when there are errors in functoid configuration. |
| intergroup adapter | A biztalk server adapter that targets intranet/lan communication between two biztalk server groups without requiring intermediate storage. |
| business activity services | A biztalk server feature that enables business users to configure business processes and interact with trading partners. |
| business activity monitoring | A biztalk server feature that gives business users a real-time view of their heterogeneous business processes, enabling them to make important business decisions. |
| whiteboard slide | A blank collaborative slide on which participants can add content by using the annotation tools. |
| text slide | A blank collaborative slide on which participants can type notes or comments. |
| color dodge | A blending mode in which the color channels of the background color are brightened based on the color channels in the foreground color. if the foreground color is black, then it has no effect. any... |
| color burn | A blending mode where the background colors are darkened based on the foreground colors. a black foreground color will result in black, while a white foreground color will have no effect. |
| key protector | A blob (binary large object) that is used to restrict access to a bitlocker-protected disk. |
| block blob | A blob comprised of blocks, each of which is identified by a block id. |
| page blob | A blob that is a collection of pages. a page is a range of data that is identified by its offset from the start of the blob. |
| buffer cache | A block of memory reserved for index and table data pages. |
| lambda function | A block of programming language code that operates as a function but is not named and cannot be called or referenced except through normal flow of operation. for example, the instruction within th... |
| code example | A block of sample code in documentation that is used to demonstrate a concept or process. |
| bonded device | A bluetooth device that has been paired to another one. |
| windows bluetooth stack | A bluetooth stack that is built in the windows operating system. it also supports third-party driver development. |
