BC -abbr

  1. before Christ often printed in small capitals and often punctuated
  2. British Columbia

BCD [,bē-(,)sē-'dē] -n

  1. a system of writing numbers in which each decimal digit is represented by its 4-digit binary equivalent
    • 51 in BCD is 0101 0001
  2. bad conduct discharge

BCE -abbr

  1. bachelor of chemical engineering
  2. bachelor of civil engineering
  3. before the Christian Era often punctuated; before the Common Era often punctuated

bcf -abbr

  1. billion cubic feet

BCG vaccine [,bē-(,)sē-'jē-] -n

  1. a vaccine prepared from a living attenuated strain of tubercle bacilli and used to vaccinate human beings against tuberculosis called also BCG

BCh -abbr

  1. bachelor of chemistry

BChE -abbr

  1. bachelor of chemical engineering

BCL -abbr

  1. bachelor of canon law
  2. bachelor of civil law

BCN -abbr

  1. beacon

BCS -abbr

  1. bachelor of chemical science
  2. bachelor of commercial science