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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

The set of attributes of an entity, described at a particular time, when that set is extended to every occurrence of that entity within a prescribed boundary. 2. The complete set ...

Block Holder

Telecommunications; General telecom

The Service Provider to which a thousands-block (NXX-X) has been assigned for use.

secondary service area

Telecommunications; General telecom

The service area of a broadcast station served by the skywave and not subject to objectionable interference and in which the signal is subject to intermittent variations in ...

primary service area

Telecommunications; General telecom

The service area of a broadcast station in which the groundwave is not subject to objectionable interference or objectionable fading.

time server

Telecommunications; General telecom

The server maintaining and distributing the correct date and time over a computer network. Note: There is usually a special time-distribution protocol.

serial transmission

Telecommunications; General telecom

The sequential transmission of the signal elements of a group representing a character or other entity of data. Note: The characters are transmitted in a sequence over a single ...

Julian date

Telecommunications; General telecom

The sequential day count reckoned consecutively beginning January 1, 4713 B. C. Note: The Julian date on January 1, 1990, was 2,446,892. 2. The sequential day count of the days of ...