"line noise" meaning in English

See line noise in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} line noise (uncountable)
  1. (computing) Spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-line_noise-en-noun-Ft2ETv-S Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  2. (programming) Data that looks random, as when outputting a binary file as text. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Programming
    Sense id: en-line_noise-en-noun-8TtHShMJ Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
  3. (computing, derogatory) Incomprehensible source code or other textual material (often due to terseness or overuse of operators). Tags: derogatory, uncountable Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-line_noise-en-noun-BQmhZWxD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 26 51 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Download JSON data for line noise meaning in English (2.7kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "line noise (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link."
      ],
      "id": "en-line_noise-en-noun-Ft2ETv-S",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) Spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Programming",
          "orig": "en:Programming",
          "parents": [
            "Computing",
            "Software engineering",
            "Technology",
            "Computer science",
            "Engineering",
            "Software",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Media",
            "Fundamental",
            "Communication"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Data that looks random, as when outputting a binary file as text."
      ],
      "id": "en-line_noise-en-noun-8TtHShMJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "programming",
          "programming#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "binary",
          "binary"
        ],
        [
          "text",
          "text"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(programming) Data that looks random, as when outputting a binary file as text."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "programming",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 26 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2000, Simon Cozens, Ten Perl Myths, perl.com,\nIn short, Perl doesn't write illegible Perl, people do. If you can stop yourself being one of them, we can agree that Perl's reputation for looking like line noise is no more than a myth."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Incomprehensible source code or other textual material (often due to terseness or overuse of operators)."
      ],
      "id": "en-line_noise-en-noun-BQmhZWxD",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "Incomprehensible",
          "incomprehensible"
        ],
        [
          "source code",
          "source code"
        ],
        [
          "terseness",
          "terse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, derogatory) Incomprehensible source code or other textual material (often due to terseness or overuse of operators)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "line noise"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "line noise (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) Spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Programming"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Data that looks random, as when outputting a binary file as text."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "programming",
          "programming#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "binary",
          "binary"
        ],
        [
          "text",
          "text"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(programming) Data that looks random, as when outputting a binary file as text."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "programming",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2000, Simon Cozens, Ten Perl Myths, perl.com,\nIn short, Perl doesn't write illegible Perl, people do. If you can stop yourself being one of them, we can agree that Perl's reputation for looking like line noise is no more than a myth."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Incomprehensible source code or other textual material (often due to terseness or overuse of operators)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "Incomprehensible",
          "incomprehensible"
        ],
        [
          "source code",
          "source code"
        ],
        [
          "terseness",
          "terse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, derogatory) Incomprehensible source code or other textual material (often due to terseness or overuse of operators)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "line noise"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.