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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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code

Telecommunications; General telecom

A set of unambiguous rules specifying the manner in which data may be represented in a discrete form. Note 1: Codes may be used for brevity or security. Note 2: Use of a code ...

service concurrence

Telecommunications; General telecom

A sharing of an active service among devices or networks. This can include various manipulations to share, extend, or prune membership in a multi-party service or multi-network ...

arithmetic shift

Telecommunications; General telecom

A shift, applied to the representation of a number in a fixed radix numeration system and in a fixed-point representation system, and in which only the characters representing the ...

bridge-to-bridge station

Telecommunications; General telecom

A ship station operating in the port operations service in which messages are restricted to navigational communications and which is capable of operation from the ship's ...

ship's emergency transmitter

Telecommunications; General telecom

A ship's transmitter to be used exclusively on a distress frequency for distress, urgency or safety purposes.

pigtail

Telecommunications; General telecom

A short length of optical fiber that is permanently affixed to an active device, e. G. , LED or laser diode, and is used to couple the device, using a splice or connector, to a ...

fiber pigtail

Telecommunications; General telecom

A short length of optical fiber that is permanently affixed to an active device, e. G. , LED or laser diode, and is used to couple the device, using a splice or connector, to a ...