General telecom

General telecom

Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.

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Floating head

Telecommunications; General telecom

A magnetic head floating on a layer of air away from the recording surface. Synonyms air-floating head, flying head.

Merchant-ship broadcast system (MERCAST)

Telecommunications; General telecom

A maritime shore-to-ship broadcast system in which the ocean areas are divided into primary broadcast areas each covered by a high-powered shore radio station that broadcasts simultaneously on one ...

Equipotential ground plane

Telecommunications; General telecom

A mass, or bonded masses, of conducting material that offer a negligible impedance to current flow. Note: Equipotential ground planes may be in direct contact with the earth or may be physically ...

Waveguide

Telecommunications; General telecom

A material medium that confines and guides a propagating electromagnetic wave. Note 1: In the microwave regime, a waveguide normally consists of a hollow metallic conductor, usually rectangular, ...

Optically active material

Telecommunications; General telecom

A material that rotates the plane of polarisation of light that passes through it.

Unit impulse

Telecommunications; General telecom

A mathematical artifice consisting of an impulse of infinite amplitude and zero width, and having an area of unity. Note: The unit impulse is useful for the mathematical expression of the impulse ...

Closed-loop transfer function

Telecommunications; General telecom

A mathematical expression (algorithm) describing the net result of the effects of a closed (feedback) loop on the input signal to the circuits enclosed by the loop. Note 1: The closed-loop transfer ...