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Telecommunications

Of or pertaining to the transmission of information over a distance, and the technology used to achieve this communication.

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line speed

Telecommunications; General telecom

The rate at which a carrier is varied to represent the information in a digital signal. Note: Modulation rate and information transfer rate are not necessarily the same. 2. For ...

visual display unit (VDU)

Telecommunications; General telecom

Software or hardware that is used to scrutinize and to display, record, supervise, control, or verify the operations of a system. Note: Possible uses of monitors are to indicate ...

preempting call

Telecommunications; General telecom

See multilevel precedence and preemption.

tasking

Telecommunications; General telecom

The concurrent performance or interleaved execution of two or more tasks. Synonym concurrent operation.