General telecom

General telecom

Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.

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Acoustic delay line

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device that introduces a delay in the propagation of an electrical signal by (a) employing a transducer to convert the signal into an acoustic wave, (b) propagating the acoustic wave through a ...

Input/output (I/O) device

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device that introduces data into or extracts data from a system.

Cheque loop

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device that is attached to interconnect the Go and Return paths of a circuit at the incoming end of a circuit on command to permit maintenance personnel to make a continuity cheque on a loop basis.

Speech synthesiser

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device that is capable of accepting digital or analogue data and developing intelligible speech sounds that correspond to the input data, without resorting to recorded sounds or without simply ...

Uninterruptible power supply (UPS)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device that is inserted between a primary power source, such as a commercial utility, and the primary power input of equipment to be protected, e.g., a computer system, for the purpose of ...

Detector

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device that is responsive to the presence or absence of a stimulus. 2. In an AM radio receiver, a circuit or device that recovers the signal of interest from the modulated wave. Note: In FM ...

Sound navigation and ranging (sonar)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device that is used primarily for the detection and location of underwater objects by reflecting acoustic waves from them, or by the interception of acoustic waves from an underwater, surface, or ...