BLT

Synonym for blit. This is the original form of blit and the ancestor of bitblt. It referred to any large bit-field copy or move operation (one resource-intensive memory-shuffling operation done on pre-paged versions of ITS, WAITS, and TOPS-10 was sardonically referred to as “The Big BLT”). The jargon usage has outlasted the PDP-10 BLock Transfer instruction from which BLT derives; nowadays, the assembler mnemonic BLT almost always means “Branch if Less Than zero”.

Battalion Landing Team, main body of infantrymen that make up a MEU.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce
  Synonym: bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich

The acronym BLT may refer to one of the following:

• The bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich
• Baselland Transport, a Swiss railway company
• BitBLT - Short for "Bit Block Transfer", an operation in computer graphics
• BLT theorem, or bounded linear transformation

Acronyms

• Barking Lizards Technologies, a game developer based in Richardson, Texas
• Bizarre Love Triangle, a single by British band New Order
• Black liberation theology
• Block-transfer instruction, a machine language instruction for PDP-10 computers

Other uses

• B'Elanna Torres, a fictional character in Star Trek: Voyager whose initials are "BLT".^[1]
• Bilinear transform, a complex conformal mapping in mathematics

References

1. ^ "Flesh and Blood". Star Trek: Voyager. 2000-11-29. No. 9, season 7.

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