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British Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants.
British People of Great Britain.
British Library Method British Library Method Brute force searching. According to legends circulating in the 1970s, in the British Library books are searched for by examining each book sequentially in the first shelf, then the next shelf, continuing until the book is found or the entire library has been searched. The term was referred to in a Dutch coursebook, "Inleiding In De Informatica" Introduction to Informatics from a course given by C.H.A. Koster and Th.A. Zoethout. This was based on a course given at the TU Berlin. [Reference?]
British Standards Institute British Standards Institute BSI The British member of ISO.
British Telecom British Telecom BT The largest telecommunications provider in the UK. Due to regulatory issues, BT had to sell off its interest in McCaw Cellular. BT sold it to AT&T for something like 4B$. BT then invested that in MCI. As a part of the deal, MCI was given BT North America, which was the old Tymnet. MCI laid off about 40% of the Tymnet staff. Home http://www.intervid.co.uk/.
British Telecom Research Laboratories British Telecom Research Laboratories BTRL The laboratories where British Telecom develops many of its new Network services. Home http://www.labs.bt.com/. Address: Martlesham Heath, near Ipswich, Suffolk, UK.