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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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Telecommunications; General telecom

A sequence of data elements, such as bits or characters, considered as a whole.

data stream

Telecommunications; General telecom

A sequence of digitally encoded signals used to represent information in transmission.

clearing

Telecommunications; General telecom

A sequence of events used to disconnect a call and return to the ready state. 2. Removal of data from an information system (IS,) its storage devices, and other peripheral devices ...

calling sequence

Telecommunications; General telecom

A sequence of instructions together with any associated data necessary to perform a call.

microprogram

Telecommunications; General telecom

A sequence of microinstructions that are in special storage where they can be dynamically accessed to perform various functions.

microcode

Telecommunications; General telecom

A sequence of microinstructions that is fixed in storage that is not program-addressable, and that performs specific processing functions.

asynchronous operation

Telecommunications; General telecom

A sequence of operations in which operations are executed out of time coincidence with any event. 2. An operation that occurs without a regular or predictable time relationship to ...