General telecom

General telecom

Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.

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charge coupled device (CCD)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A semiconductor image-sensing device that (a) is usually in the form of a plane rectangular matrix of microscopic, individual sensing elements, each of which corresponds to an image pixel, (b) is ...

A sequence of bits transmitted over a communications system for synchronizing crypto-equipment. Some off-line cryptosystems, such as the one-time pad systems, employ message indicators to establish ...

bit string

Telecommunications; General telecom

A sequence of bits. Note: In a bit stream, individual bit strings may be separated by data delimiters. Synonym binary string.

calling-line identification signal

Telecommunications; General telecom

A sequence of characters transmitted to the called terminal to permit identification of the calling line.

called-line identification signal

Telecommunications; General telecom

A sequence of characters transmitted to the calling terminal to permit identification of the called line.

passphrase

Telecommunications; General telecom

A sequence of characters, longer than the acceptable length of a password, that is transformed by a password system into a virtual password of acceptable length.

byte (B)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A sequence of contiguous bits (usually 8) considered as a unit. Note: In pre-1970 literature, "byte" referred to a variable-length bit string. Since that time, the usage has changed so that now it ...