General telecom

General telecom

Terms relating to telecommunication or communication through technological means.

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Long-range radio navigation (LORAN)

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A long-range radio navigation position-fixing system consisting of an array of fixed stations that transmit precisely synchronised signals to mobile receivers. Note: A loran receiver measures ...

Conditioned loop

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A loop that has conditioning equipment to obtain the desired line characteristics for voice or data transmission. Note: The conditioning equipment is used to improve the amplitude-vs. -frequency ...

Transparent loopback

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A loopback in which the signal is transmitted beyond the loopback point (the forward signal. )

Non-transparent loopback

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A loopback in which the signal transmitted beyond the loopback point (the forward signal) when the loopback is activated, is not the same as the received signal at the loopback point. The forward ...

Fractal

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A mathematical formula or algorithm that constitutes or defines an efficient way of formulating computer graphics. Fractal graphics translate the natural curves of an object into mathematical ...

Boolean function

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A mathematical function that describes Boolean operations. 2. A switching function in which the number of possible values of the function and each of its independent variables is two.

A mathematical function that maps values from a large (or even very large) domain into a smaller range, and is (a) one-way in that it is computationally infeasible to find any input which maps to any ...