General telecom

General telecom

Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.

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Continuity cheque transponder

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device that is used to interconnect the Go and Return paths of a circuit at the incoming end, and through which the detection of an incoming cheque tone transmits another cheque tone to permit a ...

Smart jack

Telecommunications; General telecom

Flip-flop

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device that may assume either one of two reversible, stable states. Note 1: The flip-flop is used as a basic control element in computer and communications systems. Note 2: In a flip-flop, the ...

Network interface device (NID)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device that performs interface functions, such as code conversion, protocol conversion, and buffering, required for communications to and from a network. 2. A device used primarily within a local ...

Analogue computer

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device that performs operations on data that are represented within the device by continuous variables having a physical resemblance to the quantities being represented. Note: The earliest analogue ...

Transceiver

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device that performs, within one chassis, both transmitting and receiving functions. 2. In military communications, the combination of transmitting and receiving equipment that (a) is in a common ...

Light amplification by stimulated emission of radi

Telecommunications; General telecom

A device that produces a coherent beam of optical radiation by stimulating electronic, ionic, or molecular transitions to higher energy levels so that when they return to lower energy levels they ...