| bot | robot, program that simulates a user in a MUD game or in a group chat on the Internet (Computers); parasitic larva of a botfly isim | en |
| bot | Board of Transportation The City agency charged with operating the subways from consolidation to the mid 50s Predecessor to the NYCTA | en |
| bot | A program that automates mundane or repetitive tasks and runs [usually] 24 hours a day 7 days a week regardless of whether the user is logged-on Somewhat similar to an agent, bots can be used to explore the World Wide Web, retrieving a particular document, following all the hyperlinks in it and generating a catalog of the results Many search engines such as Alta Vista and InfoSeek use such bots Also referred to as a "spider" or "crawler " | en |
| bot | is an abbreviation of robot but used in a software context A bot automates acomputing function | en |
| bot | Slang expression for robot, a program that runs automatically Among the uses for bots are to locate information on the World Wide Web and for the automatic collection of email addresses | en |
| bot | Short for "robot" Refers to Internet programs designed to run automatically | en |
| bot | It is assumed that an xAIML interpreter is part of a larger application generically termed a bot, which carries the larger functional set of interaction based on xAIML This document does not constrain the specific behavior of a bot | en |
| bot | Bot is short for "robot " It is a program on an IRC-or undernet-system, which acts as a real person by accepting certain commands and responding | en |
| bot | Automated avatar or utility, usually programmed with AW SDK | en |
| bot | The larva of a bot fly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles | en |
| bot | To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting that thing's usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes | en |
| bot | To bugger | en |
| bot | A physical robot | en |
| bot | A piece of software designed to complete a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account | en |
| bot | botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human | en |
| bot | See Bots | en |
| bot | n A software agent found on IRC channels e g Zakim | en |
| bot | A slang term originating from the word "robot" It is used to describe a program that automates a task This could be searching the Internet for new sites to add to a database or sorting your incoming e-mail | en |
| bot | - Short for Robot A program designed to search for information on the Internet with little human intervention | en |
| bot | Short for Robot, but this is a special automated program designed to search the Web Search engines use bots regularly to trawl the internet for web pages and key words to store in the search engine database | en |
| bot | Short for "robot " An automated program On the Internet, the most common bots are the programs, also called spiders or crawlers, that access websites and gather their content for search engine indexes | en |
| bot | Short for robot, a program designed to search the Internet looking for information Bots can also refer to any short piece of programming that performs a specific function | en |
| bot | Short for infobot, robot, or knowbot; a program used to search the Internet for data | en |
| bot | A bot is a computer program that carries out tasks for other programs or users, especially on the Internet. A software program that imitates the behavior of a human, as by querying search engines or participating in chatroom or IRC discussions. a computer program that performs the same operation many times in a row, for example one that searches for information on the Internet as part of a search engine | en |
| bot | Derived from the word "robot," a bot is a software program that performs repetitive functions, such as indexing information on the Internet | en |
| bot | Shorthand for 'robot', generally used to refer to an automated program used to process data with minimal human intervention | en |
| bot | real BoT (mag) total face-on magnitude corrected for galactic and internal extinction and for redshift U_Botreal (U - B)oT (mag) total U-B color index corrected for galactic and internal extinction and for redshift m_25real m-arcmin-25 (mag/sq-min) mean surface brightness in magnitudes per square arcmin within the muB=25 0 B-m/ss elliptical isophote of major axis log D25 and axis ration log R25 as in RC2 ME_m25real Mean error in mi-arcmin-25 (mag/sq-min) HIreal HI (mag) corrected neutral hydrogen index: the difference mo21-BoT between the corrected face-on 21cm emission line mag and the BT corrected mag V3Kint V3K (km/sec) the weighted mean velocity corrected to the reference frame defined by the 3K microwave background Go back to main index webmaster@ucolick org A Service of the Computing Support Group UCO/Lick Observatory University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Tel: +1 408 459 2630 Fax: +1 408 454 9863 | en |
| bot | Short for "robot," also known as a shopping agent, shopping bot, shopbot, etc A program or Web site that searched several sites for information for the user, such as finding the lowest price on something you want to buy | en |
| bot | build, operate, transfer - a type of contract under which a (usually foreign) company builds something (usually an infrastructure project, such as a power station or a bridge or a road), runs it for an agreed period (say 20 years) and then gives it to the state The idea is that it will have made a good return on its investment in that period | en |
| bot | An automated software program that can execute certain commands when it receives a specific input The web searching bots, also known as spiders and crawlers, search the Web by retrieving a certain document and recording the information and links found on it They then generate catalogs of the sites they have searched which can later be accessed by a search engine Bots also function in chat rooms (IRC) They will do things like greet people when they enter a chat room, advertise web sites or special deals, or kick people out of chat rooms with an accompanying nasty message | en |
| bot | In MUDs, a character whose on-screen actions stem from a program rather than a real person In Internet searching, an automated search agent that explores the Internet autonomously, and reports back to the user when the search conditions have been successfully fulfilled | en |
| bot | Internet Also known as software agents, bots are "software robots" that work for human being across computer networks, undertaking tasks such as search operations More information on bots can be found at www botspot com | en |
| bot | Short for "robot " Describes programs, usually run on a server, that automate tasks like forwarding or sorting e-mail | en |
| bot | Short for robot, this term is often used interchangeably with "intelligent agent " It is a tool for sifting through data and can be tailored to perform a specific function (e g shopping bot) | en |