1. A bandwidth is the amount of data a network link can handle.
2. Bandwidth is the signaling frequency supported by a circuit. It is generally accepted to mean the capacity provided by a particular circuit expressed as a data transfer rate (bits/second). The term is also used to express a requirement for such capacity.
Information Security Manual

1. A base, commonly referred to as a base course, is layer of specified or selected material of planned thickness ‑ constructed on the sub-grade, the natural foundation, or sub-base ‑ for the purpose of distributing load, providing drainage, or upon which a wearing surface or a drainage structure is placed.
2. Base is the layer of material immediately beneath the pavement’s surface layer. It may be a layer of crushed tone, crushed or uncrushed gravel and sand, or various combinations of materials. It may also be treated with asphalt to bind it together, or it may be left untreated (see also Flexible Base and Stabilized Base).

1. A batch is a quantity of like transactions that have been grouped together to be processed as one lot.
2. A batch is a quantity of like transactions that have been grouped together to be processed as one lot in the Financial Information Management System (FIMS) front-end and back-end.
Finance Division
3. A batch is the quantity of finished material produced from each separate mixture of ingredients.
Manual of Testing Procedures

1. A berm is a mound of earth, generally of triangular (or trapezoidal) cross-section, that parallels a roadway and serves as a noise barrier.
2. A berm is the area between back slope and the right of way (ROW) line.A berm is a ledge or shelf that breaks the continuity of a slope.

1. A bidder is any firm or company submitting a proposal to provide ROW services based on a qualifications/price method.
Right of Way Manual
2. A bidder is an individual, firm, or corporation or any combination thereof submitting a proposal for obtaining a highway construction contract.

1. A bitmap is a black-and-white only, raster-based image.
2. Bitmap can refer to the stair-stepped look, whether accidental or not, that is the result of displaying, scanning or printing an image at low resolution.
Communications Manual

1. Bitumen is a class of dark brown or black cementitious substances, which contain high concentrations of hydrocarbons. Asphalts, tars, and pitches are common types.
Manual of Testing Procedures
2. Bitumen is a mixture of hydrocarbons of natural or pyrogenous origin, or a combination of both, frequently accompanied by nonmetallic derivatives which may be gaseous, liquid, semisolid or solid; and which are completely soluble in carbon disulphide.
Asphalt Institute

1. A bridge is a structure, including supports, erected over a depression or an obstruction, such as water, a highway, or a railway; having a roadway or track for carrying traffic or other moving loads; and having an opening measured along the center of the roadway of more than 20 feet between faces of abutments, spring lines of arches, or extreme ends of the openings for multiple box culverts or multiple pipes that are 60 inches or more in diameter and that have a clear distance between openings of less than half of the smallest pipe diameter.
Bridge Inspection Manual
2. A bridge is a product that connects a local area network (LAN) to another local area network that uses the same protocol (for example, Ethernet or Token Ring network.).
Information Security Manual

1. A buffer zone is undeveloped, open spaces which border a highway.
2. A buffer zone is an area which provides a degree of insulation from effects.

1. Bulk specific gravity of aggregates is the ratio of the oven-dry weight of the aggregate to the bulk volume of the aggregate particles.
2. Bulk specific gravity of bituminous mixtures is the ratio of the weight of the compacted bituminous mixture specimen to the bulk volume of the specimen
Manual of Testing Procedures

• primarily for the purchase, sale, lease, and/or rental of personal and /or real property, and/or the manufacturing, processing and/or marketing of products, commodities, and any other personal property; or
• primarily for the sale of services to the public; or
• primarily for outdoor advertising purposes, when the display must be moved as part of the highway project; or
• by a nonprofit organization that has established it nonprofit status under applicable Federal and State laws.

NOTE: The Business Opportunity Program has been discontinued. It was replaced by DBE/HUB/SBE Progams.