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Bug: Jargon often used in the computing world to refer to a fault in software (and sometimes hardware) that causes a malfunction. Bugs may range from minor annoyances that are easily worked around to crippling problems. Sometimes a software program can have so many problems it gets characterized as "buggy." According to folklore, the first computer bug was an actual bug. Discovered in 1945 at Harvard, a moth trapped between two electrical relays of the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator caused the whole machine to shut down. It turns out that the person who told the story was already aware of the usage of the term as it dates all the way back to the early telegraph days. Some claim the usage is actually older than that. These days you will see the term applied to any system (computer or otherwise) that runs with any type of program or set of instructions. This could be a keyboard, a hard disk recorder, or even a calculator.

B-Bender	Backbeat	Back-Emf
Backline	Backplane	Backplate
Backup/Back Up	Backward Compatible	Backwards Masking
Badge	Baffle	Baffled Stereo
Bagpipe	Bakelite	Balanced
Balanced Power	Ball-end	Balun
Bambino Guitar	Banana Plug	Band
Band Limit	Bandpass	Band Reject Filter
Bandwidth	Banjo	Banjo Tuners
Banjo Tuners	Bank Select	Bantam
Bar	Bar Bridge	Baritone Guitar
Baroque	Barre Chord	Barrier Miking
Bass	Bass Management	Bass Reflex
Bass Trap	Basswood	Baud
Baud Rate	Baxandall Shelving Curve	Baxandall Tone Controls
Beaming	"Beano" Album	Bear Claws
Beat	Beatboxing	Beat Juggling
Beat matching	Beats (or "Beating")	Bebop
Bel	Bell Filter	Belly
Belt Drive	Beta	Betamax (or shortened to "Beta")
Bezier CurveBezier Curve	Bi-Amp	Bi-Directional
Bi-flex Truss Rod	Bi-phase modulation (Binary Phase-shift keying)	Bi-phase Sync
Bias	Bias Beat	Bias Beat
Bias Beat	Bias Beat	Bichord
Bigsby	"Bikini" Guitar and Bass Ensemble	Bill Putnam, Sr.
Binary	Binaural	Binding
Binding Post	Binhex	BIOS
Birdseye	Bit	Bit Depth
Bit Mapping	Bitonality	Bitsetting
Bit Splitting	Biwa	Blackburst
Black Burst	Black Panel Amp	Blackwood
Blade Switch	Bleed	Blending
BLER	Blind Transfer	Block
Blu-ray	Blue Book	Bluetooth
Blumlein Microphone (or Blumlein Pair)	BMI	BNC
Bobbin	Body Pack	Bolt-in Neck
Bolt-On Neck	Bookmark	Bookmatching
Book Type Field	Boom Operator	Boost (and Cut)
Boot	Boot Camp	Bottleneck
Bouncing	Boundary Microphone	Bout
Boutique Amp	BPM	bps
Bracing	Braided Shield	Breaker
Breakout/ Breakout Box	Breath Controller	Breathing
Breve	Brian May "Red Special"	Brickwall Filter
Brickwall Limiter	Bridge	Bridge Block
Bridged	Bridge Pin	British EQ
Broadband	Brockburst	Brockburst
Broken Chord	Broken Octave	Brownian Movement/Motion
Brown Sound	Bubinga	Bucking
Buffer	Buffer Under-Run	Bug
Bulk Dump/Load	Bullet Truss Rod	Bump (slang)
Burl	Burn	Burn-In
Burns Bison	Burns Bison Bass	Burns Gear-0-Matic
Burns Gear-0-Matic	Burst	Bus
Bus Bar	Buzz Track	Broadcast Wave File (BWF)