Bell & Gossett is a leading manufacturer of pumps, valves, heat exchangers and accessories for plumbing, wastewater and HVAC — including steam and heat transfer — applications. Content for specifying engineers, OEM, plumbing contractors and building managers. B or b is the second letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It represents the voiced bilabial stop in many languages, including English. In some other languages, it is used to represent other bilabial consonants.
Translingual[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From the Ancient Greek letter Β(B, “Beta”).
Letter[edit]
B (lower caseb)
Usage notes[edit]
The letter B (usually its lower case form b) is used in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the bilabial plosive or stop, usually voiced (/b/).
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Etymology 2[edit]
Symbol[edit]
B
Gallery[edit]
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Other representations of B:
Further reading[edit]
English[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Old English letter B, from 7th century replacement by LatinB of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᛒ(B, “beorc”).
Letter[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb, pluralBsorB's)
Usage notes[edit]
In Modern English, the letter B is sometimes silent, e.g. in climb, and debt.
Apostrophes are sometimes used to form plurals of single upper case letters, especially at the start of a sentence:
Usually, though, the apostrophe is avoided when there is no risk of confusion:
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Number[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
B
Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
B (pluralBs)
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Usage notes[edit]
Apostrophes are sometimes used to form plurals of single upper case letters, especially at the start of a sentence:
Usually, though, the apostrophe is avoided when there is no risk of confusion:
Symbol[edit]
B
Derived terms[edit]
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Translations[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
B
Afar[edit]Letter[edit]
B
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American Sign Language[edit]Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French Sign Language sign for the letter B.
Production[edit]
This one-handed ASL sign is produced as follows:
Letter[edit]
(transliteration needed) (StokoeB)
See also[edit]Azerbaijani[edit]Letter[edit]
Bupper case (lower caseb)
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Blagar[edit]Letter[edit]
B
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Catalan[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb)
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Chinese[edit]
Czech[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
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Noun[edit]
B
Dutch[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb)
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Esperanto[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb)
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Finnish[edit]Letter[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb)
Usage notes[edit]
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Noun[edit]
B
German[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb)
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Noun[edit]
Bn (genitiveB, no plural)
Declension[edit]
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German Sign Language[edit]Etymology[edit]
Related to the French Sign Language sign for 'B'.
Production[edit]
This one-handed GSL sign is produced as follows:
Letter[edit]
(transliteration needed)
Ido[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
B (lower caseb)
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Italian[edit]
Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it
Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
Bm or f (lower caseb)
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Latvian[edit]
Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lv
Etymology[edit]
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.
Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
B
B (upper case, lower caseb)
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Malay[edit]
Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ms
Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
B
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Maltese[edit]Letter[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb)
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Portuguese[edit]Letter[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb)
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Romanian[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb)
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Saanich[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
B
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Skolt Sami[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
B (lower caseb)
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Slovene[edit]
Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sl
Letter[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb)
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Somali[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
Bupper case (lower caseb)
Usage notes[edit]
The second letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabicabjad order. It is preceded by ' and followed by T.
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Spanish[edit]Letter[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb)
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Turkish[edit]Letter[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb)
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Vietnamese[edit]Pronunciation[edit]
Letter[edit]
B (lower caseb)
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Zulu[edit]Letter[edit]
B (upper case, lower caseb)
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