confessionalism

confessionalism (countable and uncountable, plural confessionalisms)

Confessionalism (poetry)
Confessionalism (religion)

Her rendition of "Dry Land" from her first album, Back to the Night, was a poetic fusion of music and lyrics that achieved an intimate tone too often sacrificed to confessionalism by other singers.

1977 April 23, Steve Blevins, “Armatrading: "Sit Back And See"”, in Gay Community News, page 11:

(poetry) A style of American poetry that draws on the personal history of the poet.


logline

loglines (plural)
logge-line (alternative)
log lyne (alternative)
logg line (alternative)
logg-line (alternative)
loggline (alternative)
log line (alternative)
log-line (alternative)

First attested in 1613 as logge-line. A compound of log + line.

Screenwriting Tip #12: If you don't know your own logline, you probably don't know what your script is about. Some writers will tell you they don't have a logline. Their screenplay is “too complex” or “too character-driven,” […]

2013, Xander Bennett, Screenwriting Tips, You Hack, page 16:

The first step in outlining is to make sure that your logline, that one-or-two- sentence summary of your movie you first created in chapter 2 (“Jump-starting the Screenplay”), is the best that it can be in capturing what your movie is about now.

2013, Linda Venis, Cut to the Chase: Writing Feature Films with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers' Program, Penguin, →ISBN:

(authorship) A very short summary of a script or screenplay.


introversion

en-noun

introversion (usually uncountable, plural introversions)

/ɪntɹəʊˈvɜːʃən/

/ɪntɹəˈvəɹʒən/

/ɪntɹəˈvəɹʃən/

/ɪntɹoʊˈvəɹʃən/

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From New Latin intrōversio, from intrōvertere (“to turn within”), from Classical Latin intro (“within”) and vertere (“to turn”). Equivalent to introvert + -sion.

Such introversion is merely a matter of form.

1896, Richard Green Moulton, The Literary Study of the Bible, page 50:

(poetry and literature) Arrangement of two similar words, lines, etc. to form the middle part of a structure.


poulter's measure

poulter's measure (plural poulter's measures)

Coined by George Gascoigne in 1576, because it was said that poulters gave 12 eggs for the first dozen and 14 if you bought a second dozen.

Good ladies, ye that have your pleasure in exile
Step in your foot, come take a place and mourn with me awhile.
And such as by their lords do set but little price,
Let them sit still, it skills them not what chance come on the dice.

1547, Earl Surrey, Complaint on the absence of her lover being at sea.:

(poetry) A metre with alternate lines of 12 and 14 syllables.


base communications

(telecommunications, military, US) Communications services, such as the installation, operation, maintenance, augmentation, modification, and rehabilitation of communications networks, systems, facilities, and equipment, including off-post extensions, provided for the operation of a military post, camp, installation, station, or activity.


call delay

call delay (countable and uncountable, plural call delays)

(telecommunications) The delay that occurs when a call arrives at an automatic switching device and no channel or facility is immediately available to process the call.

(telecommunications) The time between the instant a system receives a call attempt and the instant of initiation of ringing at the target device.


kenning

A learned borrowing from Old Norse kenning, from kenna (“to know; to perceive”), from Proto-Germanic *kannijaną (“to make known”); see further at etymology 1. Compare can, keen, ken.

der

[A]s we are all aware, the Skalds used all sorts of kennings from Jewels, Gold, Silver, &c., to betoken Women, &c. Gold is called "The Sea's Blink (Blik)", and so on, and a female is "Gold's Mistress", "The Goddess of the Golden Jewel", and so forth.

1867–1868, George Stephens, “Bracteates”, in The Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, Now First Collected and Deciphered, volume II, London: John Russell Smith; Copenhagen: Michaelsen and Tillge; printed by H. H. Thiele, →OCLC, pages 509–510:

I venture to say that a close study of the style of Piers Plowman would thoroughly dispose of alliteration as chief factor in the kenning-process.

1887 January, Francis B. Gummere, “Wilhelm Bode: Die Kenningar in der angelsächsen Dichtung. Mit Ausblicken auf andere Litteraturen. Darmstadt und Leipzig, 1886. [Strasburg Dissertation].”, in A. Marshall Elliott, editor, Modern Language Notes, volume II, number 1, Baltimore, Md.: [Johns Hopkins Press], →ISSN, →OCLC, column 36:

If we now move to the second helmingr, Kock tries to unscramble the two kenningar[…], but this is over-zealous, since there are ample parallels for such braiding of kenning elements. Finnbogi interprets the kenning 'ǫrbeiðanda bǫðvar jǫkla' contextually, to mean 'the one who provoked the warrior into drawing his sword' (Orkneyinga saga, 202).

2006, Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium: Brepols, →OCLC, page 149:

The original also makes frequent use of the circumlocutory type of poetic expression known as the kenning, which consists (in its simplest form) of a base-word (always a noun, sometimes the second of the two elements in a compound word) accompanied by a determinant (either a noun in the genitive or, in the case of a compound-word kenning, the first of the compound's two elements).

2007, Andrew Wawn with Graham Johnson and John Walter, editors, Constructing Nations, Reconstructing Myth: Essays in Honour of T. A. Shippey (Making in the Middle Ages; 9), Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium: Brepols, →ISBN, page 172:

(poetry) A metaphorical compound or phrase, used especially in Germanic poetry (Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way.

kenning

metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry


call history

en-noun

call history (countable and uncountable, plural call histories)

(telephony) An itemised list of the telephone numbers called from a particular account.

(telephony) A sorted list, derived from the above, showing those numbers called most often.


spudger

1425–75; a variant of late Middle English spuddle (“short knife”).

Place the upper casing on edge and use a spudger to push the keyboard away from the casing, poking the spudger through the holes where the screws were.

A hand-held tool consisting of a short narrow rod with various shaped tools at the ends.

(telecommunications) A hand tool used to work on punch-down blocks without short circuiting electric terminals. It has a hook on one end and a notched blade on the other.

lasta

aforementioned tool in any of the functions


structured wiring

(telecommunications) A planned cabling system which systematically lays out the wiring and wire management necessary for communications, including voice, data, and video.


ROIP

(telecommunications) Radio over IP: ROIP extends VOIP to radio repeaters and base stations.


keepalive

(electronics, communication) A short message sent by one device to another to check that the link between the two is operating, or to prevent this link from being broken due to inactivity.


dipody

From di- + -pody, from Ancient Greek δι- (di-, “two”) and πούς, ποδός (poús, podós, “foot”).


SRES

The network sends a challenge to the mobile at each connection, and the mobile must send an SRES back to the network before it will allow access.

(telecommunications, cryptography) Acronym of signed response (to an authentication challenge on GSM mobile networks).


asynchronous

/eɪˈsɪŋkɹənəs/

Near-synonym: in parallel

(computing, communication) Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other.


duple

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Latin duplus (“twofold, double”). Attested since the 16th century. Doublet of double and doppio.

McGonagall is earnestly trying to gather the resources of a metrical tradition, not subvert it, but the mismatch of duple and triple measure in the first line alone means that, while it’s made of recognisable metrical feet, the line doesn’t feel like it belongs to any specific metrical pattern (iambic, dactylic, anapestic etc) or mode (pastoral, elegy or ballad).

2015, Ben Lerner, “Diary”, in London Review of Books, volume 38, number 12:


compatibility

compatibility (countable and uncountable, plural compatibilities)

Borrowed from New Latin compatibilitās. By surface analysis, compatible + -ity.

съвмести́мост

capability to exist without mutual interference

(telecommunications) the capability of two or more items or components of equipment or material to exist or function in the same system or environment without mutual interference.


SDR

SDR (countable and uncountable, plural SDRs)

software defined radio
software defined radio#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of software defined radio.


private branch exchange

private branch exchange (plural private branch exchanges)

private branch exchanges (plural)
as PBX (abbreviation)

(telecommunications) A telecommunications switching system, physically located at a customer's place of business, that provides internal communication between users and also access to outside (trunk) telephone lines.


time out

en-verb

time out (third-person singular simple present times out, present participle timing out, simple past and past participle timed out)

times out (present singular third-person)
timing out (participle present)
timed out (participle past)
timed out (past)

(transitive, communication) To end (an incomplete task) after a time limit.

aikakatkaista

to end (an incomplete task) after a time limit

The download timed out because your Internet connection was disrupted.

(intransitive, communication) Of a task, to be terminated because it was not completed before a time limit.

joutua aikakatkaistuksi

of a task, to be terminated because it was not completed before a time limit


kavya

(poetry) A highly artificial Sanskrit literary style used by Indian court poets in the early centuries AD.


improvisatore

en-noun

improvisatore (plural improvisatores or improvisatori)

improvisatores (plural)
improvisatori (plural)
improvvisatore (alternative)

There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine.

1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death:

(poetry) An individual who recites impromptu verse, as from a song or poem.


retardation

retardation (countable and uncountable, plural retardations)

/ˌɹitɑɹˈdeɪʃən/

The act of retarding or delaying; hindrance.

(telegraphy) A decrease in the speed of telegraph signalling.


QoS

quality of service
quality of service#English

(computing, telecommunications) Initialism of quality of service.


remote access

(telecommunications) A communication with a data processing facility from a remote location or facility through a data link.

Wide Area Telephone Service
Wide Area Telephone Service

(telecommunications) A PABX service feature that allows a user at a remote location to access by telephone PABX features, such as access to Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) lines.


apologetic apostrophe

apologetic apostrophe (plural apologetic apostrophes)

While not all agreements were carried out as planned, what this attempt at consistency achieved in Smith's case was to give his poetry the appearance of a distinctive literary language, related to English, but having its own identity and forms, and without the distraction for the reader of the apologetic apostrophes.

2009, Margery Palmer McCulloch, Scottish Modernism and Its Contexts 1918-1959:

(sociolinguistics, orthography) An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word.


ring off

en-verb

ring off (third-person singular simple present rings off, present participle ringing off, simple past rang off, past participle rung off)

rings off (present singular third-person)
ringing off (participle present)
rang off (past)
rung off (participle past)

I thanked him and rang off.

2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 68:

(intransitive, telephony, British, Australia) To disconnect at the end of a phone call.


CDR

en-noun

CDR (countable and uncountable, plural CDRs)

(telephony) Initialism of call detail record: a computer record representing a unit of traffic handled by a telephone exchange.


roaming

roaming (countable and uncountable, plural roamings)

(uncountable, telecommunications) The ability to use a cell phone outside of its original registering zone.

تجوال

using a cell phone outside of its original registering zone

(uncountable, computing, telecommunications) The use of a network or service from different locations or devices.

verkkovierailu

using a network or a service from different locations or devices


okurigana

(orthography) In the Japanese language, the kana which follow a stem written with kanji, which record how that stem is inflected, and guides recognition of the appropriate kun'yomi reading (word stem associated with the kanji); for example, く (ku) and かべる (kaberu) in 浮(う)く (uk-u, “to float”, intransitive) and 浮(う)かべる (uk-aberu, “to float”, transitive), or む (mu) and きる (kiru) in 生(う)む (umu, “to birth”) and 生(い)きる (ikiru, “to live”). Perhaps analogous to -st, -nd in English 1st (first), 2nd (second).


black spot

black spot (countable and uncountable, plural black spots)

black spots (plural)
blackspot (alternative)

What if—like so many rural parts of the county—this was a mobile black spot? That was easily tested. No, she had no problem dialling her own home number.

2013, Judith Cutler, Life Sentence, Allison & Busby, →ISBN:

(telecommunications) A location with poor radio signal reception, e.g. for mobile phones.


DSC

DSC (countable and uncountable, plural DSCs)

(nautical, radio telephony) Initialism of digital selective call, a feature that allows a VHF radio to call another VHF selectively (as opposed to a call that is repeated by all receivers that are on within the range of the caller).


teledensity rate

(telecommunications) The number of telephone lines per 100 people in a region.


MMF

MMF (countable and uncountable, plural MMFs)

(telecommunications) Initialism of multimode fibre; a type of an optical fibre which is designed to carry a variety rays of light.


call center

call centers (plural)
call centre (alternative)

→ German: Callcenter

(business, telephony) A communications facility where phone calls are handled; especially, a commercial one for customer service, sales and telemarketing.


dénouement

dénouement (countable and uncountable, plural dénouements)

dénouements (plural)
denouement (alternative)
dénoûment (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from French dénouement (“resolution”, literally “unknotting”).

ubor

Emily was a great favourite with him; and he had always viewed the attachment, at whose dénouement between her and Lorraine, Lady Mandeville meant to preside, as a somewhat foolish romance.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 271:

At last this affair is moving towards the explosive dénouement he has been craving — the revelation, the release of tension, that will shake the universe in one fierce convulsion, and then allow everything to fall back into its rightful place, restored to normality!

2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 830:

(authorship, often figuratively) The conclusion or resolution of a plot; unravelling.


fast busy signal

en-noun

fast busy signal (plural fast busy signals)

(telephony) An audible signal on a voice phone line that sounds more frequently than a standard busy signal, indicating that no transmission path to the called phone number is available.


haikai

haikai (countable and uncountable, plural haikai)

Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)諧(かい) (haikai).

A form of Japanese comic verse, featuring satire and puns.


monometer

(poetry) A line of verse containing a single metrical foot.


cut-out

(telegraphy) A switch that changes the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.


vocalization

vocalization (countable and uncountable, plural vocalizations)

vowelization

supplying vowels/diacritics to Arabic and Hebrew words/texts

(orthography) The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.

تَشْكِيل

supplying the vowels (diacritics), e.g. Arabic and Hebrew

(orthography, phonology) The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.


ABCs

(obsolete, poetry) A type of poem in which the lines start with the letters of the alphabet in order.


book signing

(authorship) An event where an author signs copies of her/his books for fans.


errored

en-adj

errored (comparative more errored, superlative most errored)

more errored (comparative)
most errored (superlative)

If an error is indicated the reperforator deletes the errored line from the tape and signals the transmitter to repeat the line of data.

1958, Electronic Industries Association Engineering Dept., Proceedings of the EIA Conference on Automation Systems for Business and Industry, page 88:

The mean number of errored bits per errored symbol is therefore....

1993, S. Tirro, Satellite Communication Systems Design, Springer, →ISBN, page 445:

An errored second is any one-second interval containing at least one bit error.

2004, Roger L. Freeman, Telecommunication System Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 347:

[definition:] Errored block— A block in which one or more bits are in error.

2004, Vivek Alwayn, Optical Network Design and Implementation, Cisco Press, →ISBN, page 38:

[…]the least-errored neural network topological structure and the optimum rheology parameters were obtained using a genetic algorithm

2006, Jie Han, Tong ji da xue, Jian-Hua Yin, David White, Guoming Lin, Advances in Earth Structures: Research to Practice : Proceedings of Sessions ..., American Society of Civil Engineers, →ISBN, page 91:

(telecommunications) Containing one or more errors; faulty.


MMS

Sending a picture taken with a phonecam as MMS may be fun on occasion, but sending thousands or millions of pictures is not the work of a casual user.

2003, Scott B. Guthery, Mary J. Cronin, Developing MMS Applications:

Multimedia Messaging Service
w:Multimedia Messaging Service

(telecommunications) Initialism of Multimedia Messaging Service.


monophonic

From a similar selection, says M. Remusat, the Coreans have made a monophonic alphabet of nine vowels and fifteen consonants, with which they write their language.

1828 July 7, Peter S. Du Ponceau, “On some Points connected with the Nature of the Chinese Language (enclosure in letter from Basil Hall)”, in The Philosophical magazine, volume 5:

(orthography) having simple one-to-one mapping between letters and phonemes


ogonek

From Polish ogonek (literally “little tail”).

The pangram “Pchnąć w tę łódź jeża lub ośm skrzyń fig” (To push a hedgehog or eight boxes of figs into that boat) highlights a few of the language-specific diacritical marks, such as L with stroke (ł) and ogoneks (ą, ę) necessary to write in Polish—demonstrating how a writing system can accommodate many languages with thorough character inclusion.

2023, Mia Cinelli, Giving Type Meaning: Context and Craft in Typography, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:

(orthography) A hook-shaped diacritical mark ⟨◌̨⟩ attached underneath a vowel, typically to indicate nasalization, as in Ąą, Ęę, Įį, Ǫǫ or Ųų.


payload

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From pay + load. From the early 20th century.

(communication) The actual data in a data stream.


synchronizer

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(film editing) A device for aligning multiple film strips in a replay or editing device.


cheville

Borrowed from French cheville. Doublet of clavicle.

The genius of prose rejects the cheville no less emphatically than the laws of verse; and the cheville, I should perhaps explain to some of my readers, is any meaningless or very watered phrase employed to strike a balance in the sound.

1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Art of Writing:

The practice of using chevilles was very common in old Irish poetry, and a bad practice it was; for many a good poem is quite spoiled by the constant and wearisome recurrence of these chevilles.

1910, Patrick Weston Joyce, English as we speak it in Ireland, chapter 5:

(poetry) A word or phrase whose only function is to make a sentence metrically balanced.


radiogram

Probably either:
* from radio- (prefix denoting radio broadcasting) + -gram (suffix denoting something drawn, written, or otherwise recorded); or
* a clipping of radio(tele)gram.

confix

/ˈɹeɪ.di.əˌɡɹæm/

Sec. 7. That a person, company, or corporation within the jurisdiction of the United States shall not knowingly utter or transmit, or cause to be uttered or transmitted, any false or fraudulent distress signal or call or false or fraudulent signal, call, or other radiogram of any kind.

1912 August 13, “[Laws and Regulations] An Act to Regulate Radio-communication, Approved August 13th, 1912”, in The Year-book of Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony, New York, N.Y.: Wireless Press, published 1917, →OCLC, page 362:

If the War Department at that time had considered it necessary to alert the Hawaiian Department against air and ground attack, it undoubtedly would have so directed instead of sending a long radiogram outlining the various steps that should be taken in connection with sabotage and subversive activities.

1946, Walter C[ampbell] Short, “Statement by Major General Walter C. Short of Events and Conditions Leading Up to the Japanese Attack, December 7, 1941”, in Pearl Harbor Attack: Hearings before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Con. Res. 27: A Concurrent Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of the Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Events and Circumstances Relating thereto: Part 24: Proceedings of Roberts Commission […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 1778:

On 3 June, 1898, Lord Kelvin visited [Guglielmo] Marconi's Alum Bay station, on the Isle of Wight, and sent from there the first paid radiograms.

1963, Linwood S. Howeth, “Birth of Science of Radio and Development of Usable Components”, in History of Communications-electronics in the United States Navy, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:

But in his February 12 radiogram Brett had also ordered Barnes to send two pursuit squadrons to Darwin, one for local protection and the other to provide escort for a convoy to Koepang and to provide cover for its unloading, then to remain at Koepang.

2010, William H. Bartsch, “Part Three: ‘You are Not Forgotten Men’”, in Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941–1942, College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 103:

wireless telegraphy
wireless telegraphy#English

(telegraphy, historical) Synonym of radiotelegram (“a message, like a telegram, transmitted by wireless telegraphy (“telegraphy by radio rather than by transmission cables”)”).

радиограма

message, like a telegram, transmitted by wireless telegraphy — see also radiotelegram


rubai

rubaiyat (plural)
rubais (plural)
ruba'i (alternative)
rubāʿī (alternative)

Borrowed from Arabic رُبَاعِيّ (rubāʕiyy).

(poetry) A quatrain in classical Arabic, Persian, Turkic or Urdu poetry.


black letter

en-noun

black letter (countable and uncountable, plural black letters)

black letters (plural)
blackletter (alternative)
black-letter (alternative)

Also we discovered what is still more curious, an English version of the black-letter Latin.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

The original boldface printing types are the blackletters used by Gutenberg in the 1440s. For the next two centuries, blackletter fonts were widely used not only in Germany but in France, Spain, the Netherlands and England.

2002, Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style (version 2.5), Vancouver: Hartley & Marks, →ISBN, page 103:

(calligraphy) A highly calligraphic Western European script style used from approximately 1150.

(typography) A Northern European style of type based on the script, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page.


pantsing

pantsing (countable and uncountable, plural pantsings)

Here's how to painlessly make pantsing your backup. The unknown can be intimidating. The key to pantsing is to not worry about how it will all hang together. Just start writing.

2017, The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing, Penguin, →ISBN:

(informal, writing) An improvised style of writing without an outline.


cancrine

en-adj

cancrine (comparative more cancrine, superlative most cancrine)

more cancrine (comparative)
most cancrine (superlative)

From Latin cancer (“crab”) + -īnus, as if from *cancrīnus. The poetry sense comes from the fact that most species of crab can walk sideways, either left or right.

[…] the prodigious variety of ſo many kinds of verſe, Leonine, Alexandrine, Acroſtic, Chronologic, Hieroglyphic, Cancrine, Croſs-formed, Labyrinthic, Pyramidal, and a thouſand other follies […]

1772, José Francisco de Isla, translated by Thomas Nugent, The History of the Famous Preacher Friar Gerund de Campazas: Otherwise Gerund Zotes, volume I, London: T. Davies, page 233:

A marble bénitier, vessel for holy water, is surrounded with what Alvarez has denominated a recurrent, or Cancrine verse, which forms the same words beginning at each end: ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ.

1814, “A Short Sketch of a Short Trip to Paris”, in Abraham John Valpy, editor, The Pamphleteer, volume III, number VI, page 532:

(poetry) Palindromic; reading the same forwards or backwards.


spiritus asper

From Latin spīritus asper (literally “rough breath”).

bor

The spiritus asper mark looks like an opening single quote, as in the word εὑρίσκω (heurískõ), the word εὕρηκα (heúrēka), or the word ἕξις (héxis, "habit").

h, as an aspirate, is very frequent in Chinese ; it is generally a stronger aspirate than in English : in the dialects of the south it is often changed into f, in the north into s, or sh. To mark an aspirate after a consonant, we use the Greek spiritus asper in preference to h.

1836 May, “System of Orthography for Chinese words”, in The Chinese Repository, volume V, number I, page 27:

(orthography) A diacritic mark ( ʻ ) in Ancient Greek used to indicate the aspiration of an initial vowel or rho; also used for a similar sound in the Wade–Giles system of romanization for Mandarin Chinese.

examples from the Wade–Giles romanization system


spiritus lenis

Learned borrowing from Latin spīritus lēnis.

lbor

smooth breathing
smooth breathing#English

(orthography) Synonym of smooth breathing.


N-facility

(telecommunications) In the Open Systems Interconnection-Reference Model (OSI-RM), the transfer of data from one layer (N) to the next higher layer (N+1).


overbuilder

(telecommunications) A company that uses or builds on an existing telecommunications operator’s network (which includes telco and cable networks). These are often associated with advanced fiber-optic networks.


escape character

en-noun

escape character (plural escape characters)

In the C programming language, the backslash is an escape character; for example, \n represents a newline.

(computing, telecommunications) A single metacharacter, usually a control code, which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative interpretation. The term escape sequence refers to the escape character and the subsequent character or characters so modified.


vanity number

(telephony) A phone number that is registered as a mnemonic whose letters translate into numbers.

omavalintainen puhelinnumero

Phone number registered with mnemonic letters


PBEM

(games, communication) Initialism of play-by-email; also PBeM.


bit interval

(telecommunications, computing) The time required to send one signal bit.


commonality

commonality (countable and uncountable, plural commonalities)

2003, NASA, Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Transcript, transcript of radio communication,
KLING: FYI I've just lost four separate temperature transducers on the left side of the vehicle, hydraulic return temperatures. (pause) Two of them on system one and one in each of systems 2 and 3.
CAIN: Four hyd return temps?
KLING: To the left outboard and left inboard elevons.
CAIN: OK, is there anything common to them, DSC or MDM or anything? I mean, you're telling me you lost them all at exactly the same time?
KLING: No, not exactly. They were within probably four or five seconds of each other.
CAIN: OK, where are those? Where is that instrumentation located?
KLING: All four of them are located in the aft part of the left wing, right in front of the elevons, elevon actuators. And there is no commonality.
CAIN: No commonality.
(long pause)

(telecommunications) A quality that applies to materiel or systems: (a) possessing like and interchangeable parts or characteristics enabling each to be utilized, or operated and maintained in common; (b) having interchangeable repair parts and/or components; (c) applying to consumable items interchangeably equivalent without adjustment.

yhteensopivuus

telecom: property of having these characteristics


callback

callbacks (plural)
call-back (alternative)

For example, multiple callbacks might be made to a nonanswered number to increase the response rate.

2007, James M. Lepkowski, Clyde Tucker, J. Michael Brick, Advances in Telephone Survey Methodology, page 318:

(telephony) A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.


run in

en-adj

run in (not generally comparable, comparative more run in, superlative most run in)

more run in (comparative)
most run in (superlative)

These headings are run in because a free-hanging style would just be a waste of column inches.

One of the best headings for saving space is the heading that is run in.

1956, Daniel Melcher, Nancy Larrick, Printing and Promotion Handbook:

Third subheadings begin paragraphs (are indented and run in).

1976, American Institute of Physics, Editorial Handbook, page 17:

You can select how far you want subentries indented, how many lines between each entry and alphabetical block, and whether you want the final index indented (each sub- and sub-subheading indented under its parent) or run in (subheadings in paragraph form under the main heading).

1985 April 16, Charles Anderson, “The Ins and Outs of Indexing”, in PC Mag, volume 4, number 8, page 322:

Heading levels 3 through 7 are run in headings — the text that follows the heading appears on the same line as the heading.

1987, Rachel Morgan, Henry McGilton, Introducing UNIX System V, page 333:

Secondary headings are flush left, in regular type, and capitalized headline style. Tertiary headings are run in at the beginning of a paragraph, in bold type, capitalized sentence style, and followed by a period.

2019, Editorial staff, “Guide to Authors”, in Nagoya Journal of Medical Science, archived from the original on 2021-12-23:

participial adjective
participial adjective

Alternative form of run-in (adjective) (styled open when in predicative position)

(participial adjective; editing, typography) (not comparable) Having been run in before or behind previous text.


radio beacon

radio beacons (plural)
radio-beacon (alternative)
radiobeacon (alternative)

(communication, aviation, nautical, navigation) A beacon that emits radio wave signals to guide ships or aircraft or to indicate the position of a ship, aircraft, or other object, person, or vehicle.

emergency position indicating radio beacon


rondeau

From Middle French rondeau, from Old French rondel. Doublet of rondo.

Though we have the English rondels of Occleve and a set of rondeaus in the Rolliad (written by Dr. Lawrence, the friend of Burke, according to Mr. Edmund Gosse, who has given us an admirable essay upon exotic forms of verse), […].

1914, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Poetry and The Renascence of Wonder, page 198:

First of all, the two rondeaux appear in the 1538 version of the previously published Adoleseenee Clementine at the end of the section of poems of the same genre.

1991, Doranne Fenoaltea, David Lee Rubin, The Ladder of High Designs, page 50:

(poetry) A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas.


smartphone

From smart + phone; first usage in the mid-1990s.

(mobile telephony) A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a featurephone.


pantser

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From the expression fly by the seat of one's pants.

(slang, writing) An author who writes their story without a plan or an outline.


forward link

(telecommunications) In radio communications, the link from a fixed location (e.g., a base station) to a mobile user. If the link includes a communications relay satellite, the forward link will consist of both an uplink (base station to satellite) and a downlink (satellite to mobile user).


reverse link

(telecommunications) In radio communications, the link from a mobile user to a fixed base station. If the link includes a communications relay satellite, the reverse link will consist of both an uplink (mobile station to satellite) and a downlink (satellite to base station).


presentity

Blend of presence + entity; first introduced in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETC) RFC 2778.

Users of an instant messaging service are presentities that may show themselves as online, offline, or away.

(Internet, telecommunications) An entity (usually a human) which provides information about its presence (whether it is available and willing to communicate through communication services).


sloka meter

(poetry, Hinduism) A Sanskrit meter consisting of two lines of sixteen syllables each.


spidery

spidery (comparative more spidery, superlative most spidery)

more spidery (comparative)
most spidery (superlative)

(writing, figurative) Cramped or illegible; especially when spiky.


topic sentence

(authorship) A sentence at the beginning of a paragraph indicating the general matter to be discussed later in that paragraph.


sestina

From Italian sestina. Doublet of sextain.

Although the sestina is of medieval French origin, attributed to Arnaut Daniel in the late twelfth century and used by other Gallic poets and by Italians including Petrarch and Dante (from whom it received its Italian name), […]

2002, Annie Finch, Kathrine Varnes, An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 290:

Would he let others toil to support him while he languished all afternoon over his sestinas?

(poetry) A highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet or envoy, for a total of thirty-nine lines.


hardline

hardlines (plural)
hard line (alternative)
hard-line (alternative)

(telephony) A physical wire or cable connection; landline.


ithyphallic

ithyphallic (comparative more ithyphallic, superlative most ithyphallic)

more ithyphallic (comparative)
most ithyphallic (superlative)

/ˌɪθɪˈfælɪk/

/ˌɪθɪˈfælɪk/

Borrowed from Late Latin ithyphallicus, from Ancient Greek ἰθυφαλλικός (ithuphallikós), from ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος (īthŭ́phallos, “phallus carried in festivals of Bacchus; ode sung in honour of the phallus; dance accompanying such an ode; dancer performing such a dance”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). ῑ̓θῠ́φαλλος is derived from ἰθῠ́ς (ithŭ́s) (variant of εὐθῠ́ς (euthŭ́s, “straight”)) + φαλλός (phallós, “penis; image of a penis, phallus”). The English word can be analysed as ithyphallus + -ic.
As regards the noun, compare Latin ithyphallicum (“poem with the same metre as the hymns to Priapus”).

refn

From the collection of the Museum of London in London, England, UK.

cog

(poetry) Pertaining to a metrical combination of two trochees followed by one spondee.


endpoint

endpoints (plural)
end point (alternative)

(networking, telecommunications) The entity at one end of a connection.


chunking

en-noun

chunking (countable and uncountable, plural chunkings)

(writing) A method of presenting information which splits concepts into small pieces or "chunks" of information to make reading and understanding faster and easier, using such methods as bulleted lists, short subheadings, or short sentences with one or two ideas per sentence.


last mile

The problem getting to all these remote customers is still the last mile, no matter how far they live from the switch.

(telecommunications) The portion of the infrastructure that carries communication signals from the main system to the end user's business or home, often involving greater expense to install and maintain, and lower transmission speeds.

son mil

telecommunication: part of infrastructure that connects the end user to the main system


RCS

radar cross section
radar cross section#English

(telecommunications, aviation) Initialism of radar cross section.


vers de societe

(poetry) A type of light poetry suited to the amusement of polite upper-class society.


villanelle

From the French villanelle, from Italian villanella, from villano (“peasant”), from Latin vīllānus (“farmhand”), from vīlla (“estate”). The origin references the pastoral themes originally associated with this form.

By definition the villanelle is restrictive, because it demands nineteen lines on two rhymes in six stanzas, the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the concluding quatrain.

1966, Louise Baughan Murdy, Sound and sense in Dylan Thomas's poetry (Studies in English Literature), The Hague: Mouton & Co, →ISBN, page 96:

(poetry) A type of poem, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.


triolet

The triolet, like the sestina and several other forms of French-derived poetry, is a form of rhyming poetry that has lines that repeat.

2005, Connie Homan Weaver, Poetry a la Carte, Prufrock Press Inc., →ISBN, page 110:

(poetry) An eight-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and whose lines are in iambic tetrameter.


de-emphasis

de-emphases (plural)
deemphasis (alternative)
deëmphasis (alternative)

(telecommunications) A signal distortion, carried out at a receiver, in order to undo the effects of pre-emphasis at the transmitter.

(telecommunications) A reduction of the level of all bits except the first one after a transition.


tapper

(telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.


radio-frequency identification

(radio, telecommunications) The storage and retrieval of data using tags attached to individual packages, animals or people; the tags contain an integrated circuit to store and process the data, and an antenna to transmit and receive such data.


frequency assignment

frequency assignment (plural frequency assignments)

(telecommunications) An authorization, given by an administration, for a radio station to use a radio frequency or radio frequency channel under specified conditions.

(telecommunications) The process of authorizing a specific frequency, group of frequencies, or frequency radio band to be used at a certain location under specified conditions, such as bandwidth, power, azimuth, duty cycle, or modulation.


metricize

en-verb

metricize (third-person singular simple present metricizes, present participle metricizing, simple past and past participle metricized)

metricizes (present singular third-person)
metricizing (participle present)
metricized (participle past)
metricized (past)


WTAI

w:Wireless Telephony Applications Interface

(networking, telecommunications) Initialism of Wireless Telephony Applications Interface: a protocol used in conjunction with the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) to allow a telephone number to be linked to a web page.


FAB

Coined by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson for the TV series Thunderbirds (1965-1966), from fab,
clipping of fabulous.

F.A.B. (alternative)
F. A. B. (alternative)
F-A-B (alternative)
F.-A.-B. (alternative)

"Okay, FAB. Over and out."

1986, Márcio Souza, The order of the day: an unidentified flying opus:

It was great to report back to Mike and Jason on this knowing they were eager to hear that everything was operational. F.A.B. Virgil!

2011, Norman Beech, The Atlantic Job - A Dad and a Lad, FilamentPublishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 69:

“Understood. F.A.B., sir.” Their pilot hung the microphone back on its hook.

2013, Andrez Bergen, Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

(radio, telecommunications, humorous) Used to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood.


callee

(telephony) The person who is called by the caller (on the telephone).

абонат

the person who is getting called by the caller


nonrepudiation

(telecommunications) Assurance that the claimed sender or recipient is in fact the party who sent or received a given message.


monocycle

From mono- + cycle, thus literally "one wheel".

(communication) The first derivative of a Gaussian, often used as an impulse signal.


downlink

(telecommunications) The transmission of a signal from a satellite to a receiving station on earth; or the means of this transmission.

(telecommunications) Transmission of data from a network, usually wireless, to the user.


far-field

(telecommunications) Of or pertaining to the far field.


proration

en-noun

proration (countable and uncountable, plural prorations)

(telecommunications) In budgeting, the proportional distribution or allocation of parameters, such as noise power and transmission losses, among a number of tandem-connected items, such as equipment, cables, links, or trunks, in order to balance the performance of communications circuits.

(telecommunications) In a telephone switching center, the distribution or allocation of equipment or components proportionally among a number of functions, to provide a requisite grade of service.


callout

(communication) An outgoing telephone call.


helpline

(telecommunications) A telephone service (or (by extension) one using email, SMS, or the Web) which offers help to those who call, as either a public emergency service or customer service.


ANI

(US, telephony) Initialism of automatic number identification.


OFDM

orthogonal frequency division multiplexing#English

(electronics, telecommunications) Initialism of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing.

COFDM

coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

FLASH-OFDM

Fast Low-latency Access with Seamless Hand-off — Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

MIMO-OFDM

multiple-input–multiple-output—orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

N-OFDM

non-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

OFDMA

orthogonal frequency division multiple access


PSDU

(telecommunications, initialism) physical layer service data unit.


kigo

(poetry) A seasonal word; a word required in haiku to indicate the season.


(poetry, rare) Used to show an unexpectedly stressed syllable, or where the choice of stress is metrically important, e.g. idiosyncratic caléndar; noun rébel as opposed to verb rebél; áll trádes as a spondee rather than iamb.


LOS

LOS (countable and uncountable, plural LOSs)

LOSs (plural)
L.O.S. (alternative)
L. O. S. (alternative)

(telecommunications) Initialism of loss of signal.


optical switch

optical switch (plural optical switches)

integrated optical circuit
integrated optical circuit

(telecommunications) A switch that can selectively change signals between optical fibers or integrated optical circuits.


slug line

(authorship) A line of abbreviated text at the beginning of each scene in a screenplay that describes the location and time of day.


subcarrier

(telecommunications) A separate signal carried on a main radio transmission, often carrying additional information such as voice or data.


rime riche

(poetry) A form of rhyme with identical sounds, as in "pear" and "pair".


RELP

(telecommunications, dated) Acronym of residual excited linear prediction, a speech coding algorithm.


epical

(poetry) A lengthy, revered narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.


versal

(typography, calligraphy) Ornamental letter that begins a section


IPBX

Internet Protocol
Internet Protocol#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of Internet Protocol private branch exchange: A business telephone system designed to deliver voice over a data network and interoperate with the normal Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).


SNR

(electronics, communication, mathematics) signal-to-noise ratio


T-carrier

(telecommunications) The generic designator for several digitally multiplexed signal carrier systems.


(telecommunications, computing) Recommended Standard 232; the standard for serial binary signals between a DTE and a DCE.


senarius

(poetry) A verse having six metric feet.


party line

(telephony, chiefly historical) A single telephone line which is shared by two or more households. Formerly common from the inception of telephony (1880s) through the mid-twentieth century.


hello girl

/həˈləʊ ˌɡɜːl/

/hɛˈloʊ ˌɡɝl/

From the fact that the telephone operators would greet callers with “Hello” when contacted.

The latest model of the multiple switch-board is in position, and in a few days the "Hello" girls will render complete the inside view of a modern telephone exchange.

1884 September, “The International Electrical Exhibition at Philadelphia, Sept. 2, 1884”, in F. L. Pope, editor, The Electrician and Electrical Engineer. A Monthly Review of Theoretical and Applied Science, volume III, New York, N.Y.: Electrical Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, page 193, column 2:

Surely, we must include the Long-Distance Telephone among the electrical achievements of the year. And if we may add the automatic switch-board, by which the services of the "hello-girl" are to be dispensed with; and if the new company, just formed in Chicago, fulfill its promise to give us telephone service at half the present rates, it will afford us an illustration of "applied science," which I am sure we shall be quick to appreciate.

1893, J[ohn] T. Pettee, “Annual Address: A Review of the Year 1892 by the President”, in Transactions of the Scientific Association, Meriden, Conn., Meriden, Conn.: Press of E. A. Horton & Co., →OCLC, page 17:

The humblest hello-girl along ten thousand miles of wire could teach gentleness, patience, modesty, manners, to the highest duchess in Arthur's land.

1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Sandy’s Tale”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 177:

Now imagine that the main automatic exchange is out of service and all those calls have to be made the old-fashioned way, by hello girls, taking ten times as long.

2001, Ken Follett, chapter 17, in Jackdaws, London: Macmillan, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Dutton, 2002, →ISBN, page 162:

(telephony, informal, dated) A female telephone operator.

sentraalisantra

(informal) female telephone operator — see also telephone girl


hokku

(poetry) Synonym of haiku (“type of Japanese poem”).


allocution

allocution (countable and uncountable, plural allocutions)

Allocution is the dissemination of information by a central unit towards a collectivity of decentral units, the central unit being both the source and the determining actor.

1993, I. Th. M. Snellen and Wim B. H. J. van de Donk (eds.), Public Administration in an Information Age, p. 198 (Google preview)

Bordewijk and van Kaam describe the one-to-many architecture of modern broadcast mass media as ‘allocution’. This is the least responsive type of interactivity because it is not designed to support exchanges. . . . The one-way flow of information is under the programmatic control of the media service provider.

2008, Christina Spurgeon, Advertising and New Media, →ISBN, page 5:

(communication, media) The mode of information dissemination in which media broadcasts are transmitted to multiple receivers with no or very limited capability of a two-way exchange of information.


XPS

XPS (countable and uncountable, plural XPSs)

(X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy): French: XPS

(X-ray photoelectron spectroscope): French: XPS

(communication, computing) Initialism of transmit packet steering, a scaling technique for network traffic processing.


round-trip time

round-trip time (countable and uncountable, plural round-trip times)

(telecommunications) The time elapsed for a message to travel to a remote location and then return.

kierrosaika

time elapsed for a message to somewhere and back


RTT

RTT (countable and uncountable, plural RTTs)

(telecommunications) Initialism of round-trip time.


ring out

en-verb

ring out (third-person singular simple present rings out, present participle ringing out, simple past rang out, past participle rung out)

rings out (present singular third-person)
ringing out (participle present)
rang out (past)
rung out (participle past)

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You can ring out if you dial 9 first and wait for the tone before dialling the number.

(telephony) To make a phone call from an internal phone system to a general telephone network number.


EOT

(computing, telecommunications) Initialism of end of transmission.


diverter

(telecommunications) A device for forwarding calls to another telephone line.


baseband

en-noun

baseband (countable and uncountable, plural basebands)

(telecommunications) The frequency range occupied by a message signal prior to modulation.

(telecommunications, noun adjunct) A method of transmission in which only one frequency channel is used at a time.


bimeter

[…] two poems combine tetrameters with trimeters, and two others tetrameters with bimeters.

1982, Willem Pieter Gerritsen, “Coornhert and Boethius: A Side-Light on the Genesis of Dutch Renaissance Verse”, in D.H. Green, editors, From Wolfram and Petrarch to Goethe and Grass, page 310:

(poetry) A meter wherein each line has two metrical feet.


apostrophically

(orthography, humorous) With apostrophes.


DOCSIS

w:Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification

(telecommunications) Acronym of Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification.


supergroup

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(telecommunications) In the L-carrier system, a multiplexed group of channel groups.


songwriting

songwriting (usually uncountable, plural songwritings)


CCI

co-channel interference
w:Co-channel interference

(telecommunications) Initialism of co-channel interference.


alexandrine

alexandrines (plural)
Alexandrine (alternative)

From Middle French alexandrin. So called from its use in old French poems on Alexander the Great (Roman d'Alexandre, c. 1177).

The dominant metre in Les Fleurs du Mal is the twelve-syllable alexandrine, the defining metre of French versification, with the eight-syllable line a distant runner-up and the ten-syllable line barely visible.

2005, Rachel Killick, “Baudelaire's versification: conservative or radical?”, in Rosemary Lloyd, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 52:

(poetry) A line of poetic meter having twelve syllables, usually divided into two or three equal parts.


Adonic

(poetry) A verse consisting of a dactyl and spondee.


senryū

(poetry) A haiku-like poem of up to 17 syllables that is usually humorous or satirical.


BNC

Bajonet Neil Concelman
BNC connector#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of Bajonet Neil Concelman connector.


virelai

From Old French virelai, alteration (after lai) of vireli.

Now making layes of loue and louers paine, / Bransles, Ballads, virelayes, and verses vaine [...].

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

(historical, poetry) A medieval poetic form consisting of two or more three line units in each stanza, in the form aabaab... and continuing on in that pattern.


(mobile telephony) Abbreviation of 3rd generation, a cellular phone communication standard.


(mobile telephony, retronym) Referring to standards before 2.5G. Includes GSM, DMA, TDMA, iDEN, and PDC.


PDC

Personal Digital Cellular
w:Personal Digital Cellular

(telecommunications) Initialism of Personal Digital Cellular, a 2G mobile standard used in Japan.


out-of-band

In this additional spectrum, in-band signaling was sent down the wires outside the frequencies used for conversation. Actually, the signals were sent across the 3,500- and 3,700-Hz frequencies. Although these worked and were not in the talk path (out of the band) they were limited in the number of tones that could be sent.

2001, Regis J. Bates, Donald W. Gregory, Voice and Data Communications Handbook, page 841:

(telecommunications) Relating to activity outside of a defined telecommunications frequency band.

kaistan ulkopuolinen

telecommunications: outside of a defined telecommunications frequency band

(telecommunications, by extension) Relating to communication on a different channel, or by a different method, from that of the primary communication channel.

kaistan ulkopuolinen

telecommunications: on a different channel, or by a different method


iota subscript

iota subscript (plural iotas subscript or iota subscripts)

iotas subscript (plural)
iota subscripts (plural)

(Greek orthography) A small iota written below an alpha, eta or omega – e.g. in ᾠδή (ōidḗ) – representing a vocalic offglide that was pronounced in early Ancient Greek, but later became silent; invented in the Middle Ages in order to mark those vowels which would originally have had such an offglide.


multiuser

(computing, telecommunications) Of an operating system, etc., having capabilities for serving many users simultaneously.


anacreontic

From Late Latin Anacreonticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀνακρέων (Anakréōn), Anacreon a Greek poet.

(poetry) A short lyrical piece about love and wine.


(poetry) Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is long. Also used alone to mark stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨ˉ⟩.


polyschematic

(poetry) Having unusual or multiple metre.


staple character

staple character (plural staple characters)

The mad scientist was a staple character in many horror films.

(writing, theater, film) A stock character, especially one that is overused.


terzanelle

(poetry) A poetry form which is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima.


contraplex

(telegraphy) Of message signals, passing in opposite directions at the same time.


DRCP

(telecommunications) Initialism of Dynamic Rapid Configuration Protocol, and extension of DHCP.


punctum delens

Unadapted borrowing from Latin pūnctum dēlēns.

ubor

(orthography) A dot placed above a letter to indicate that it is a copying error and should be ignored.

(orthography) A dot placed above a consonant in Irish, when it is written in Gaelic script, to indicate that the consonant is lenited.


civision

(telecommunications) The use of encryption when broadcasting television signals.


monoline

[…] monolines appear everywhere in the art of the Western letter, and have shaped the alphabet's development as much as the edged line of the broad pen.

1984, Margaret Shepherd, Calligraphy Now, page 31:

(calligraphy) A font line of consistent width, as occurs when imitating pencil script.


MDI

en-noun

MDI (countable and uncountable, plural MDIs)

medium-dependent interface
w:Medium-dependent interface

(computer hardware, communication) Initialism of medium-dependent interface.


cutover

cutover (countable and uncountable, plural cutovers)

cutovers (plural)
cut-over (alternative)

After the heat coils were pulled on the old main frame, the remaining step was merely to pull the wooden plugs on the new switchboard by the strings attached to them (which are bunched together) upon a signal given from the old terminal room, indicating the removal of the heat coils above mentioned. By this means the cut-over was accomplished almost momentarily, the process occupying not over two seconds’ time.

1913, Bell Telephone News, volume 2, number 7, page 18:

(telecommunications) The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original connections are then suddenly disconnected.


graveyard poetry

(literature, poetry) A type of morbid poetry which lingers on human mortality, tombs, and burial grounds, popular in the preromantic period of 18th-century Britain.


CNA

(mobile telephony) Initialism of cloud native architecture.


data rate

(telephony) The fee that a cell phone customer is charged for data traffic (sending and receiving data).


OPC

Open Platform Communications
w:Open Platform Communications

(communication, programming) Initialism of Open Platform Communications.


DTMF

(communication) Abbreviation of dual-tone multi-frequency.


acoustic coupler

acoustic coupler (plural acoustic couplers)

The call will be answered with a high-pitched tone; no human voice will be heard. The phone receiver should be placed in the acoustic coupler, if one is used, with the cord in the proper position.

1984, Christine L. Borgman, Effective Online Searching: A Basic Text, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 52:

(dated, telecommunications) A terminal device used to link data terminals and radio sets with the telephone network.


beaconing

beaconing (countable and uncountable, plural beaconings)

(computing, telecommunications) A continuous signaling of error conditions on a LAN, or small packets on a wireless LAN (WLAN).

(computing, telecommunications) In a token ring network, the process of isolating a fault domain with signals, so that recovery actions can take place.


Advanced Encryption Standard
Advanced Encryption Standard

(telecommunications) An IEEE standard specifying security mechanisms for 802.11 networks. 802.11i makes use of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) block cipher. The standard also includes improvements in key management, user authentication through 802.1X and data integrity of headers.


DDI

DDI (countable and uncountable, plural DDIs)

(telecommunications) Initialism of direct dial-in.


erlang

Named after Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang (1878–1929).

named-after

One erlang (1 Erl) is defined as the amount of traffic generated by the user when he or she uses one traffic channel for one hour (this one hour is usually the busy hour of the network).

2004, Ajay R. Mishra, Fundamentals of Cellular Network Planning and Optimisation, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 42:

(telecommunications) A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.


switchroom

(telecommunications) A room, often an entire floor, containing switching equipment, especially for telephone lines.


VSB

(electronics, communication) Initialism of vestigial sideband.


ELT

emergency locator transmitter
emergency locator transmitter#English

(communication, aviation) Initialism of emergency locator transmitter.


PLB

personal locator beacon
personal locator beacon#English

(communication) Initialism of personal locator beacon.


personal locator beacon

en-noun

personal locator beacon (plural personal locator beacons)

(communication) An emergency location radio beacon.


emergency position indicating radio beacon (plural emergency position indicating radio beacons)

(communication, nautical) An emergency location radio beacon, used on ships.


emergency locator transmitter

emergency locator transmitter (plural emergency locator transmitters)

(communication, aviation) An emergency location radio beacon, used on aircraft.


playwriting

playwriting (usually uncountable, plural playwritings)

playwritings (plural)
play-writing (alternative)


metanetwork

metanetworks (plural)
meta-network (alternative)

(communication, management, sociology) A network of networks.


Makaton

From the names of its creators: Margaret Walker, Kathy Johnston and Tony Cornforth.

(communication) A system of communication, including speech, signing, and writing, intended for use by and with people who have language or learning difficulties.


octosyllable

(poetry) line of verse with eight syllables


ambisyllabicity

(poetry, phonetics) The property of a consonant being analysed as acting simultaneously as the coda of one syllable and the onset of the following syllable, as in "upper" or "button".


duobinary

(telecommunications) Being, or pertaining to, a bipolar encoding in which the ones are represented alternately by positive and negative voltages.


dipodic

(poetry) Consisting of two metrical feet.


envoi

envois (plural)
envoy (alternative)
l'envoi (alternative)

From the pulsing throb of the very opening, this was a detailed, incisive playing, culminating in an envoi glowing enough to provide the catharsis this programme so uncompromisingly demanded.

2009 January 28, Erica Jeal, “LSO/Segerstam”, in The Guardian:

(poetry) A short stanza at the end of a poem, used either to address a person or to comment on the preceding body of the poem.


picocell

(telecommunications) A wireless communication system covering a small area, such as a single office or railway station, often used to extend cellular network coverage to indoor areas where signals cannot easily penetrate.


wireline

AT&T rose 16 cents, to $36.79, after the company reported a 17 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit and growth in wireless subscribers and in its regional wireline businesses.

2007 January 26, The Associated Press, “Homes and Treasuries Give Investors a Jolt”, in New York Times:


multipoint

(telecommunications, of a network or line) Connecting multiple service points.


lossful

en-adj

lossful (comparative more lossful, superlative most lossful)

more lossful (comparative)
most lossful (superlative)

Thresholding and neighborhood definition are further lossful transformations which make details of the original application data virtually unrecoverable.

2008, Edward Szewczak, Selected Readings on the Human Side of Information Technology:

(telecommunications, computing) Lossy; involving loss of information.


reperforator

If an error is indicated the reperforator deletes the errored line from the tape and signals the transmitter to repeat the line of data.

1958, Electronic Industries Association Engineering Dept., Proceedings of the EIA Conference on Automation Systems for Business and Industry, page 88:

The reperforator punches the routing indicator, along with the message body, into a tape

1960, Ehrhard A. Rossberg with Helmut E. Korta, Teleprinter Switching, page 217:

Creed's, earlier a world leader in teletype and reperforator equipment, could not or would not manage the transition to manufacture the tape punches

2005, John Robert Ferris, Intelligence and Strategy: Selected Essays, page 176:

(telecommunications) A device for punching a duplicate perforated paper tape of incoming messages for later retransmission.


escape sequence

en-noun

escape sequence (plural escape sequences)

In the C programming language, the backslash is an escape character; for example, \n is an escape sequence which represents a newline.

(computing, telecommunications) An escape character together with subsequent characters, not output as written, but specifying a particular behaviour.


VoSIP

(Internet, telephony) Voice over Secure IP.


SVoSIP

(Internet, telephony) Secure Voice over Secure IP.


SVoIP

(Internet, telephony) Secure Voice over IP.


polymetric

(poetry, music) Involving more than one metre


monometric

(poetry) Of or pertaining to a monometer.


station-to-station

(telecommunications) A method of placing a telephone call in which the calling party will accept the placed call irrespective of respondent. This connection method has largely been superseded by direct dial connections.


tonos

From the Modern Greek τόνος (tónos, “stress, accent”). Doublet of tone.

(orthography and typography) The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ⟨ ΄ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable.


GIP

(telecommunications) Initialism of GSM Interworking Profile (profile that allows a DECT base station to form part of a GSM network, given suitable handsets)


paeon

(poetry) A foot containing any pattern of three short syllables and one long syllable.


synizesis

synizesis (countable and uncountable, plural synizeses)

From Ancient Greek συνίζησις (sunízēsis, “a sitting together”), from σύν (sún, “with”) (English syn-) + ἱζάνω (hizánō, “to sit”).

der

(poetry) A poetic figure of speech in which two consecutive vowel sounds in the same word are pronounced as a single phoneme so that certain words adhere to a particular poetic meter.


(poetry) Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is short. Also used alone to mark a syllable without stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨˘⟩.


layback

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From lay + back (presumably from confusion between lay and lie).

(audio editing) The process of recording the final sound onto the master track.


keyset

(computing, telegraphy) An input device whose few keys can be pressed in many combinations, often simultaneously, to enter different commands or characters.


stornello

en-noun

stornello (plural stornellos or stornelli)

(poetry) An Italian lyric poem or folk song.


calling name

(communication) The name associated with the telephone number or similar identifier of a caller.


Aristophanean

en-adj

Aristophanean (comparative more Aristophanean, superlative most Aristophanean)

more Aristophanean (comparative)
most Aristophanean (superlative)

(dramaturgy, poetry) Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, his plays or his poetry.


crossband

(telecommunications) Receiving on one frequency band and transmitting on another.


false scent

(writing) A misleading expectation created by ambiguous writing


hypercatalexis

Coined in the late 1880s as a back-formation from hypercatalectic, from Latin hypercatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερκαταληκτικός (huperkatalēktikós), from ὑπερ- (huper-, “over”) + καταληκτικός (katalēktikós, “incomplete”)

uder

ὑπερκαταληκτικός

(poetry) The addition of one or two syllables to the last foot of a verse


hypercatalectic

Recorded from circa 1700; from Latin hypercatalēcticus, from Ancient Greek ὑπερκατάληκτος (huperkatálēktos).

der

ὑπερκατάληκτος

(poetry) Which has an extra syllable added to the last dipody (foot of a verse).


MTSO

Mobile Telephone Switching Office
w:Mobile Telephone Switching Office

(telecommunications) Acronym of Mobile Telephone Switching Office.


busy signal

(US, telephony) An audible signal to the calling party that indicates failure to complete the requested connection; an engaged tone


selfie

→ Arabic: سِلْفِي (silfī)

→ Gulf Arabic: سلفي (silfi, salfi)

→ Armenian: սելֆի (selfi)

→ Assamese: চেল্ফি (selphi)

→ Azerbaijani: selfi

→ Belarusian: сэ́лфі (sélfi)

→ Czech: selfíčko

→ Danish: selfie

→ Dutch: selfie

→ Finnish: selfie

→ French: selfie

→ Georgian: სელფი (selpi)

→ German: Selfie

→ Greek: σέλφι (sélfi)

→ Hebrew: סֶלְפִי (sélfi)

→ Hungarian: szelfi, selfie

→ Irish: féinín (calque)

→ Italian: selfie

→ Japanese: セルフィー (serufi)

→ Hebrew: סֶלְפִי (sélfi)

→ Korean: 셀피 (selpi)

→ Latvian: selfijs

→ Lithuanian: selfis

→ Norwegian Bokmål: selfie

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: selfie

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: sjølvi (calque)

→ Papiamentu: selfie

→ Persian: سلفی (selfi)

→ Polish: selfie

→ Portuguese: selfie, sélfie

→ Romanian: selfie

→ Russian: се́лфи (sɛ́lfi)

→ Scottish Gaelic: fèineag (calque)

→ Serbo-Croatian: selfie

→ Slovak: selfie

→ Slovak: svojka (calque)

→ Spanish: selfie, selfi

→ Swedish: selfie

→ Thai: เซลฟี (seel-fîi)

→ Turkish: selfie, özçekim

→ Ukrainian: се́лфі (sélfi)

From self + -ie. Attested since 2002, originally Australian English.

Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped ofer and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) on a set of steps. I had a hole about 1cm long right through my bottom lip. And sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.

2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" https://web.archive.org/web/20131123194231/http://www2b.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/archives/archive32/newposts/169/topic169861.shtm, ABC Online Forum selfie photo

Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. […] No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie.

2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." https://web.archive.org/web/20041126014124/http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcguirk/, Flickr

That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie.

2005, Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index, HOW Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 148:

2012 December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie” http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/12/27/168139129/the-mars-rover-takes-a-selfie, the picture show, National Public Radio

Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.

2013 December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘Selfie-Gate’”, On the Media, National Public Radio

I shall take this photograph myself. This must be what they call a selfie.

2017, Lord Stag, “Say Cheese”, in Lily's Driftwood Bay:

take a selfie

(informal, mobile telephony) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.


selfie

en-verb

selfie (third-person singular simple present selfies, present participle selfying, simple past and past participle selfied)

selfies (present singular third-person)
selfying (participle present)
selfied (participle past)
selfied (past)

(intransitive, informal, mobile telephony) To take a selfie.


ballade

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Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of ballad.

(poetry) A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.


demarc extension

en-noun

demarc extension (plural demarc extensions)

(telecommunications) The transmission path originating from the interface of the access provider's side of a telecommunications circuit Demarcation Point within a premise and ending at the termination point prior to the interface of the edge Customer Premises Equipment. This may include in-segment equipment, media converters and patch cords as required to complete the circuit's transmission path to the edge CPE.


Horatian

en-adj

Horatian (comparative more Horatian, superlative most Horatian)

more Horatian (comparative)
most Horatian (superlative)

There are three typical forms of ode: Horatian, Pindaric and irregular. Horatian odes follow the conventions of Horace, who deliberately imitated the Greek lyricists such as Alcaeus and Anacreon.

Satirical literature can commonly be categorised as Horatian, Juvenalian or Menippean. Horatian satire playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour.

Jonson was the most Horatian of the Elizabethans, both by nature and by study.

1894 May, E. H. Lewis, “The Influence of Horace in English Literature”, in The Quarterly Calendar, Vol. III, No. 1, University of Chicago Press, page 97:

Again nothing could be more Horatian than the high spirits of the introduction of the poem.

1963, C. O. Brink, Horace on Poetry, Volume 1: Prolegomena to the Literary Epistles, Cambridge University Press, page 135:

While these writers would have been familiar with both,^([the Horatian and Juvenalian styles of satire]) some were naturally "attracted to the abrasiveness of Juvenal rather than the suavity of Horace" while others found they were able to express whatever they wanted to express in more Horatian tones.

2022, Jennifer Ferriss-Hill, Roman Satire, BRILL, page 80:

(literature, poetry) Of or pertaining to the Roman poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus; 65–8 BCE) or to his works or style.

horatiusi

of or pertaining to the Roman poet Horace or to his works or style


signalling event

en-noun

signalling event (plural signalling events)

signalling events (plural)
signaling (alternative)

(telecommunications) A change of the state of a communication channel, each state representing a symbol that is to be transmitted.


cywydd

(poetry) A Welsh verse form consisting of rhyming couplets written in cynghanedd.


unhold

en-verb

unhold (third-person singular simple present unholds, present participle unholding, simple past unheld, past participle unheld or unholden)

unholds (present singular third-person)
unholding (participle present)
unheld (past)
unheld (participle past)
unholden (participle past)
un-hold (alternative)

From Middle English unholden, equivalent to un- + hold.

Scroll to Hold, and press the trackball. Your call is now on hold. Follow these steps to unhold your call: […]

2009, Dante Sarigumba, Robert Kao, BlackBerry Bold For Dummies, page 120:

(transitive, telephony) To remove from a "hold" or "on hold" state.


femtocell

(telecommunications) A wireless communication system, smaller than a picocell, typically designed for use in a home or small business.


palimbacchius

(poetry) A metrical foot composed of two long syllables and one short one.


ringdown

(telecommunications) A signal to a telephone operator that both rings a bell and allows a relay to drop.


moraic

moraic theory

(poetry, phonology) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of a mora or morae (a unit of syllable weight in poetry and linguistics).

moraico

of, pertaining to, or consisting of morae


plot hole

plot holes (plural)
plothole (alternative)

Invited to collaborate with Hitch, Shaffer watched several of the director's previous films and noticed in North by Northwest a glaring plot hole; Cary Grant hides aboard a train that he has selected randomly yet, somehow, his pursuers lie in wait aboard the same train.

2012, Allan Brown, Inside the Wicker Man, Birlinn, →ISBN:

(authorship) A gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.


multipath

(telecommunications) A wireless propagation phenomenon that results in a signal reaching the receiving antenna by two or more paths.


rhopalic

en-adj

rhopalic (comparative more rhopalic, superlative most rhopalic)

more rhopalic (comparative)
most rhopalic (superlative)

From Latin rhopalicus, from Ancient Greek ῥόπαλον (rhópalon, “club, bat”).

der

Soapy fired off a rhopalic sentence, that is, one in which each word is one letter longer than the word that precedes it: "I am the only dummy player, perhaps, planning maneuvers calculated brilliantly, nevertheless outstandingly pachydermatous, notwithstanding unconstitutional unprofessionalism."

1986 October 26, Alan Truscott, “Talking About Behavior”, in The New York Times:

(poetry, rhetoric) Having each successive word longer by a letter or syllable.


FSM

en-noun

FSM (countable and uncountable, plural FSMs)

field strength meter
field strength meter#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of field strength meter.


FIN

(telecommunications, US) Initialism of facility ID number.


GBR

(telecommunications) Initialism of guaranteed bitrate.


MNP

MNP (countable and uncountable, plural MNPs)

(telecommunications, uncountable) Initialism of mobile number portability.


to be continued

(writing, television) Used at the end of an episode of a serial publication or program to indicate that the story continues in the next episode.


dequantize

en-verb

dequantize (third-person singular simple present dequantizes, present participle dequantizing, simple past and past participle dequantized)

dequantizes (present singular third-person)
dequantizing (participle present)
dequantized (participle past)
dequantized (past)

(telecommunications) To convert a digital signal to an analog one.


speed-dial

speed-dial (third-person singular simple present speed-dials, present participle speed-dialing or speed-dialling, simple past and past participle speed-dialed or speed-dialled)

speed-dials (present singular third-person)
speed-dialing (participle present)
speed-dialling (participle present)
speed-dialed (participle past)
speed-dialed (past)
speed-dialled (participle past)
speed-dialled (past)

(transitive, telephony) To dial using speed dial.


arsis

en-noun

arsis (countable and uncountable, plural arses)

From Ancient Greek ἄρσις (ársis, “lifting”), from αἴρω (aírō, “I lift”).

it comes to pass that the arsis may effect some change in the order of which it is itself the commencement

1830, Johann Gottfried Jacob Hermann, Hermann's Elements of the Doctrine of Metres:

(poetry) The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.


inband

When dialling a modern telephone, the telephone number is encoded and transmitted inband across the telephone line as a set of audible tones.

(telecommunications) Sent via the same path or method used for primary communication between parties or devices.


PBM

(games, communication) Initialism of play-by-mail.


PBeM

(games, communication) Initialism of play-by-email; also PBEM.


Ma Bell

Like Ma Bell, I've Got The Ill Communications

1994, “Get it together”, in Ill Communication, performed by Beastie Boys:

(US, telecommunications, informal, historical) Collectively, the family of companies associated with American Telephone & Telegraph, providing telephone service in the United States for many years through 1983.


imagism

imagism (usually uncountable, plural imagisms)

/ˈɪmɪd͡ʒɪzəm/

(poetry) A form of poetry utilising precise imagery and clear language.


WAE

(telecommunications) Acronym of Wireless Application Environment.


LEC

local exchange carrier
local exchange carrier#English

(telephony) Abbreviation of local exchange carrier.


fourteener

He writes in well filled fourteeners, with individual words used not only vitally to convey the sense but also as a kind of metrical polyfilla.

1984, Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts, Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography:

(poetry) A (usually iambic) line of fourteen syllables.


radio-telephone

Another interesting feature of the Falaise is that she is provided with a Denny Brown stabiliser to minimise rolling, and amenities for the passenger include the provision of a radio telephone service, which is available on passage.

1947 September and October, “First Southern Railway Post-War Vessel”, in Railway Magazine, page 294:

Recently the L.M.R., in conjunction with Pye Telecommunications and the G.P.O., has been conducting trials between Crewe, Lancaster, Birkenhead, Liverpool and Manchester with a brakevan fitted up with radio-telephone equipment and beamed on G.P.O. radio-telephone stations in the Manchester and Liverpool area.

1960 April, “Talking of Trains: Telephones in trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 197:

In accordance with Southampton Docks practice for shunting engines during the past four years, a radio-telephone in the cab allows two-way conversation with the Dock Traffic Control Office.

1962 September, “Diesels take over at Southampton Docks”, in Modern Railways, page 171:

(telephony) Alternative spelling of radiotelephone.


expositionary

en-adj

expositionary (comparative more expositionary, superlative most expositionary)

more expositionary (comparative)
most expositionary (superlative)


multilink

(telecommunications) Of or pertaining to more than one telecommunications link.


antepenultima

From Latin antepaenultima, antepenultima (“antepenultimate”); feminine gender, agreeing with syllaba (“syllable”)).

(poetry) The last syllable of a word except two


ringback

(telecommunications) The sound transmitted back to a caller to indicate that the telephone they are calling is ringing.

'But you've been engaged an awfully long time: I had to use ringback in the end and that's expensive, but this is important so never mind.'

(telecommunications) A telephone feature allowing a person to receive an automatic call back when a busy line becomes free.


readback

Deverbal from read back, as in read that back to me, please.

(aviation, telecommunications) The repetition of a message one has received, in order to acknowledge it and to demonstrate accurate comprehension (especially of commands).

OK, now let's do a readback before you send this off.

The judge ordered a readback of a portion of the testimony.

(dictation, stenography) The reading aloud by a transcriptionist, court reporter, or stenographer of draft correspondence or of testimony previously taken down in dictation, usually at the request of the presiding judge or parties involved in a deposition (courtroom contexts) or of the manager dictating the correspondence (business contexts).


anceps

Borrowed from Latin anceps (literally “double-headed”).

bor

(poetry, Greek and Latin meter) A syllable that can be either short or long.


refarming

(US, Australia, telecommunications) The abolition of existing band allocations in the radio spectrum and the more efficient reallocation of the spectrum into smaller bands.


OTA

en-noun

OTA (countable and uncountable, plural OTAs)

(computing, communication) Initialism of over-the-air.


netphone

(telephony) A telephone that connects through the Internet.


genre fiction

genre fiction (usually uncountable, plural genre fictions)

Genre fiction encourages a focus on one aspect at the expense of others. This can produce an obsessive, powerful work. But a literary novel has, somewhere, to open out into the universal.

2014 April 22, Anita Mason, “Genre fiction radiates from a literary centre”, in The Guardian:

(authorship) Fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre (such as mystery, romance, or horror) with an existing audience.


cableco

Clipping of cable company, perhaps modelled on telco.

clipping of

perhaps modelled on <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">telco</i>

Both telcos and cablecos can deploy fiber backbone networks at a fraction of the cost of FTTH or even FTTC...

1996, Bruce L. Egan, Information superhighways revisited: the economics of multimedia, page 159:

(telecommunications) A company that offers cable services (television, Internet, etc.).


broken rhyme

The lofty passes of the mountain he has left to the more skilful climber, and hath contented himself with wandering round its base, picking up the blossoms that were scattered at his feet; or with endeavouring to portray some rustic pictures in broken rhyme.

1874, John King, Rustic Pictures and Broken Rhymes:

(poetry) The splitting of the final word in a line of poetry (onto the next line) such that a rhyme is formed from a syllable other than the last.


rule of three

the rule of three (canonical)
the Rule of Three (alternative)

(writing, rhetoric, comedy) A rule which states that things which come in groups of three are inherently funnier or more effective than things which come in groups of other sizes.

(writing, rhetoric, comedy) Specifically, the technique of having a setup in advance, a reminder to keep it fresh in the audience's memory, and then a payoff.


antag

(informal, fiction, writing) Clipping of antagonist.


roamable

(computing, telecommunications) Supporting roaming (the use of a network or service from different locations or devices).


pentina

(poetry) A fixed verse form consisting of five stanzas of five lines each, normally followed by a two-line envoi.


primary rate interface

en-noun

primary rate interface (plural primary rate interfaces)

(telecommunications) an ISDN service delivered over T1, E1 or J1 datalines, with delivery of connections between 1472 kilobits per second and 1984 kilobits per second (kibibits)


ur-poem

(literature, poetry) A poem that is believed to be a precursor or prototype to a more modern class of poetry; usually a hypothetical 'mother poem' of a genre.


PABX

private automatic branch exchange
private branch exchange#English

(telephony) Initialism of private automatic branch exchange.


DTD

DTD (countable and uncountable, plural DTDs)

(computing, telecommunications) Initialism of Data Transfer Device.

(physics, telecommunications) Initialism of Double Talk Detection.


roger that

Extension of roger for received in radio traffic (by 1950), the pronoun referring to the last information received; in use by 1969, popularised at first by radio transmissions from NASA's Apollo missions, later in military fiction.

1969 "Capsule Communicator: '11, this is Houston. We've completed the trunnion zero bias setting. You can retrieve the computer and go to BLOCK.' Commander (Neil A. Armstrong): 'Roger that. Thank you.' ", Apollo 11 Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription (Tape 4/5, mission time 5h 16 min), 16 July 1969.

1974 "This is the book for everybody who ever groaned under the onslaught of trivia transmitted by the astronauts ('This sunset is really something, Houston...' 'Roger that...'). review of M. Collins, "Carrying the Fire", Flying Magazine, November 1974, p. 108.

1989 "'It's going to blow visibility to shit, too.' 'Roger that.'" Tom Clancy, Clear and Present Danger, p. 506.

(radio telecommunications) Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)


ITU-T

International Telecommunication Union
International Telecommunication Union

(telecommunications) ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector, one of the three sectors (divisions or units) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)


choric

(poetry) Intended to be sung by a choir or chorus (e.g. a hymn)


multiexchange

(chemistry or telecommunications) Involving more than one exchange.


semisyllable

(orthography) A glyph from a semisyllabary.


superband

superband (countable and uncountable, plural superbands)

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(uncountable, telecommunications) A transmission band used in cable television in Europe.


kyrielle

"I said 'pantoum,' sir—besides which, gentlemen, we have the triolet, the kyrielle, the virelai, the vilanelle——"

1918, Jeffery Farnol, Our Admirable Betty:

(poetry) A form of French verse written in rhyming couplets or quatrains, sometimes with a religious theme.

kyrielle

A form of poetic verse written in rhyming couplets or quatrains


Baby Bell

(US, telecommunications, informal) Any of the Regional Bell Operating Companies resulting from the division of AT&T Corporation into a number of smaller companies in the 1980s as part of an antitrust agreement.


demarc

(telecommunications) The point of demarcation where the provider's network (and responsibility) ends and that of the customer begins.


rotary phone

(telephony) A telephone with a rotary dial.


GoS

grade of service
grade of service#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of grade of service.


teledensity

(telecommunications) A measurement of the number of telephones in a region, compared with the number of inhabitants.


Aristophanic

en-adj

Aristophanic (comparative more Aristophanic, superlative most Aristophanic)

more Aristophanic (comparative)
most Aristophanic (superlative)

In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent.

1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:


ECIS

w:European Committee for Interoperable Systems

(computing, telecommunications) Initialism of European Committee for Interoperable Systems.


antipoetry

(poetry) A literary movement that attempts to break away from the normal conventions of poetry.

antirunous

poetry that breaks away from normal conventions


closed form

en-noun

closed form (countable and uncountable, plural closed forms)

(poetry) A type of poetry with regular structure, such as meter or a rhyming pattern.


antibacchius

(poetry) A rare metrical foot consisting of two accented syllables followed by one unaccented syllable.


dochmiac

From Ancient Greek δοχμιακός (dokhmiakós, “dochmiac”), from δόχμιος (dókhmios) (see dochmius).

bor

(poetry) Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius.


heptastich

(poetry) A seven-lined or seven-versed poem.


human microphone

By linking the word to the body and the crowd, the human microphone transformed an obstacle into an important asset for the social movements in the street.

2013 January 8, Rossana Reguillo, “Human Mic: Technologies for Democracy”, in North American Congress on Latin America, retrieved 2013-01-09:

(communication) A means of delivering a speech to a large group of people, wherein persons gathered around the speaker repeat the speaker's words, thus amplifying the voice of the speaker without the need for amplification equipment.


monorhyme

Until 1629 no other rhyme scheme approaches the importance of monorhyme; in 1655–1729 alternating rhyme numbers over half of the total output, and for two of the next three generations it drops down to about a third.

2013, David Malkiel, Stones Speak - Hebrew Tombstones from Padua, 1529-1862, page 36:

(poetry) A poem or rhyme scheme whose lines all end with the same rhyme.


epodic

en-adj

epodic (comparative more epodic, superlative most epodic)

more epodic (comparative)
most epodic (superlative)

epodic forms

epodic meter

epodic literature

(poetry) Pertaining to or resembling an epode.


speedshift

(telecommunications) A renegotiation of the data rate over a telecommunications link.


dispondee

Latin dispondeus, from Ancient Greek [Term?].

(poetry) A double spondee; a metrical foot consisting of four long syllables.


ictic

(poetry) of a syllable in verse, carrying the beat.


pentastich

(poetry) Any composition consisting of five verses.


multinumber

a multinumber dialling system

(telecommunications) Relating to more than one telephone number.


tripedal

From Latin tripedalis, from tri- + pes, pedis (“a foot”).


antistrophic

(poetry) Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.


pseudowire

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(computing, telecommunications) An emulation of a point-to-point connection over a packet-switching network.


brachycatalectic

(poetry) A verse that is two syllables short for a metre.


ditrochee

(poetry) A double trochee; a metrical foot made up of two trochees.


tetracolon

en-noun

tetracolon (plural tetracolons or tetracola)

the two verses would form a beautiful tetracolon, the first line answering to the third, and the second to the fourth

1791, Henry Dimock, Notes Critical and Explanatory:

(poetry) A stanza or division in lyric poetry, consisting of four verses or lines.


dual SIM

dual + SIM (i.e. Subscriber Identity Module)

(mobile telephony) holding two SIM cards


triple SIM

triple + SIM (i.e. Subscriber Identity Module)

(mobile telephony) holding three SIM cards


pentapody

From penta- + -pody, from Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte, “five”) and πούς, ποδός (poús, podós, “foot”).

(poetry) A measure, verse, or series consisting of five feet.


mismeter

en-verb

mismeter (third-person singular simple present mismeters, present participle mismetering, simple past and past participle mismetered)

mismeters (present singular third-person)
mismetering (participle present)
mismetered (participle past)
mismetered (past)
mismetre (alternative)

(transitive, poetry) To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.


epitrite

Compare French épitrite, Latin epitritus, Ancient Greek ἐπίτριτος (epítritos).

(poetry, Ancient Greek and Latin prosody) A metrical foot consisting of three long syllables and one short syllable.


xDSL

digital subscriber line
digital subscriber line

(telecommunications) Any of various digital subscriber line technologies, such as ADSL, HDSL, and VDSL.


autobaud

(telecommunications) The automatic detection of a suitable baud rate by examining the incoming data.


commatic

en-adj

commatic (comparative more commatic, superlative most commatic)

more commatic (comparative)
most commatic (superlative)

Borrowed from Late Latin commaticus, from Ancient Greek κομματικός (kommatikós). See comma.

(poetry) Having short clauses or sentences, often separated with commas


semiped

From Latin semipes, semipedis, from semi- (“half”) + pes, pedis (“a foot”).


tiercet

(poetry) A triplet; three lines, or three lines rhyming together.


keysender

Electronic keysenders feeding electronic exchange equipment and electromechanical keysenders feeding electromechanical exchange equipment are well known.

(telecommunications) A device that transmits information about which buttons are pressed.


Ariostan

Ariostan (comparative more Ariostan, superlative most Ariostan)

more Ariostan (comparative)
most Ariostan (superlative)

(poetry) Characteristic of the Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533).


proceleusmatic

From Latin proceleusmaticus, from Ancient Greek προκελευσματικός (prokeleusmatikós), to rouse to action beforehand, to incite.

der

προκελευσματικός

(poetry) A metrical foot consisting of four short syllables.


proceleusmatic

en-adj

proceleusmatic (comparative more proceleusmatic, superlative most proceleusmatic)

more proceleusmatic (comparative)
most proceleusmatic (superlative)

der

προκελευσματικός

(poetry, not comparable) Consisting of four short syllables; composed of metrical feet of four short syllables each.


diiambus

(poetry) A double iambus; a metrical foot consisting of two iambs.


Archilochian

en-adj

Archilochian (comparative more Archilochian, superlative most Archilochian)

more Archilochian (comparative)
most Archilochian (superlative)

Archilochian meter

(poetry) Of or pertaining to the Ancient Greek satirical poet Archilochus and his style.

greater Archilochian

a verse consisting of four dactyls and three trochees

lesser Archilochian

a verse comprising two dactyls and a length


dactylar

(poetry) Pertaining to dactyl; dactylic.


Asclepiad

(verse form): First used by the Ancient Greek poet Asclepius.

(poetry) A choriambic verse consisting of four metrical feet: a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.


REN

ringer equivalence number
ringer equivalence number#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of ringer equivalence number.


heptachord

From Ancient Greek ἑπτάχορδος (heptákhordos, “seven-stringed”), from ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”) + χορδή (khordḗ, “chord”). Compare French heptacorde.

der

(poetry) A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.


sextain

From Latin sextus (“sixth”), from sex (“six”). Compare Italian sestina. Doublet of sestina.

(poetry) A stanza of six lines; a sestine or sestina.


interdigit

(telecommunications) Between digits (as when dialling a number)


choriambus

en-noun

choriambus (plural choriambuses or choriambi)

choriambuses (plural)
choriambi (plural)

From Latin choriambus, from Ancient Greek. Equivalent to choreus + iambus.

(poetry) A metrical foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the others short; a choreus, or trochee, united with an iambus.


correption

correption (countable and uncountable, plural correptions)

From Latin correptio (“seizure”), from corripere (“to seize”).


superframe

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(computing, telecommunications) A frame (chunk of data) comprising several subframes.


midframe

(computing, telecommunications) During a frame; before the completion of a discrete chunk of data.


dochmius

From Latin dochmius, from Ancient Greek δόχμιος (dókhmios, “oblique; dochmius”).

bor

Yet there is good reason to doubt the existence of any such; —good reason to think, that dochmiuses belong to the triple rhythm

1843, William O'Brien, The Ancient Rhythmical Art Recovered, page 6:

This chorus, which consists almost entirely of dochmii, is so corrupt as to present various problems of an almost insoluble character, although portions of it have yielded to the brilliant emendatory efforts of Hermann.

1910, R. J. Walker, Anti Mias: An Essay in Isometry, page 228:

Every dochmius is catalectic, representing an original phrase of nine primary times.

1912, John Williams White, The Verse of Greek Comedy, page 296:

(poetry) A metrical foot of five syllables used in Greek tragedy for highly anguished scenes. The metrical pattern is typically: short-long-long-short-long.


homoioptoton

homoioptota (plural)
homoeoptoton (alternative)

From Ancient Greek ὁμοιóπτωτον (homoióptōton, “in a like case”).

der

(rhetoric, poetry) A rhetorical figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.


molossus

molossuses (plural)
molossi (plural)
molosse (alternative)

From Latin molossus, from Ancient Greek μολοσσός (molossós), properly "belonging to the Molossians", a people in the eastern part of Epirus.

(poetry) A metrical foot of three long syllables.


tripody

From tri + -pody, from Ancient Greek τρι- (tri-, “three”) and πούς, ποδός (poús, podós, “foot”).

(poetry) Three metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.


CPE

en-noun

CPE (countable and uncountable, plural CPEs)

(telephony) Abbreviation of customer-premises equipment.


cymoscope

cymoscopes (plural)
cymatoscope (alternative)
kumascope (alternative)

First attested as cymatoscope in 1903 and as cymoscope in 1905; formed as cȳm- (the short stem of the Latin cȳma, from the Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma), kūma, “wave”) + -o- + -scope. Cymatoscope is philologically prescribed in place of cymoscope because it preserves the long stem (κῡμᾰτ- (kūmăt-), kūmat-) of its ultimate Ancient Greek etymon, which properly does not form compounds on its short stem (κῡμ- (kūm-), kūm-).

Apparatus belonging to any of these groups might all be called a cymoscope, or wave-detector.

(wireless telegraphy, disused) A detector of electromagnetic waves.


LTE

LTE (countable and uncountable, plural LTEs)

Long Term Evolution
long term evolution#English

(communication, mobile) Initialism of Long Term Evolution, a telephone and mobile broadband communication standard.