General telecom

General telecom

Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.

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Liquid crystal display (LCD)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A display device that creates characters by means of the action of electrical signals on a matrix of liquid cells that become opaque when energized. Note: A liquid crystal display may be designed to ...

Enhanced graphics adapter (EGA)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A display technology with pixel resolution of 640 x 350, used with early personal computers. Note: EGA has been replaced by newer display technologies.

Dummy load

Telecommunications; General telecom

A dissipative impedance-matched network, usually used at the end of a transmission line to absorb all incident energy. Note: The dummy load usually converts the incident energy to thermal energy.

Point-to-multipoint connexion

Telecommunications; General telecom

A distinctive type of multipoint connection, composed of a central connexion endpoint (central CE) and other, peripheral, CEs, and in which data originating from the central CE are received by all ...

Multimode distortion

Telecommunications; General telecom

A distortion mechanism, occurring in multimode fibers, in which the signal is spread in time because the velocity of propagation of the optical signal is not the same for all modes. Note 1: In the ...