NFC

NFC (countable and uncountable, plural NFCs)

Initialism
* (unicode): in the Unicode sense, a compound of NF (“Normalization Form”) + C (“Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition”).

compound

near field communication
near field communication#English

(communication, mobile) Initialism of near field communication.


cleardown

(telecommunications) The termination of a call.


semiduplex

(telecommunications) Providing communication in both directions, but only one direction at a time, not simultaneously.


epode

From Ancient Greek ἐπῳδός (epōidós); see epi-, ode.

(poetry) The after song; the part of a lyric or choral ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe.

(poetry) A kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one.


B-story

In the B-story, Bart goes from metaphorically crying wolf to literally crying wolf when a timber wolf escapes from Krusty’s studio after getting freaked by loud noises. The wild beast ultimately menaces Bart in his schoolroom before Groundskeeper Willie strips down and saves the day by defeating the wolf in combat.

2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

(authorship) A subplot that appears in a screenplay or script for a movie or television show; a subplot that concerns the side-characters or less important aspects of a television show.


Glyconian

Named after Glycon, an Ancient Greek poet, said to have written in this form.

(poetry) A kind of verse in Ancient Greek and Latin poetry, consisting of a spondee, a choriambus, and a pyrrhic.


overmodulation

(telecommunications) The condition where the instantaneous level of the modulating signal exceeds the value necessary to produce 100% modulation of the carrier, resulting in distortion.


ASCIIfy

en-verb

ASCIIfy (third-person singular simple present ASCIIfies, present participle ASCIIfying, simple past and past participle ASCIIfied)

ASCIIfies (present singular third-person)
ASCIIfying (participle present)
ASCIIfied (participle past)
ASCIIfied (past)
asciify (alternative)

(orthography) To reduce extended Latin text to characters of the ASCII character set.


dead zone

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When you are in a dead zone, most of your call drops or your phone doesn't work at all.

2005, Andrew Mennen, It's Your Call: The Complete Guide to Mobile Phones, Relianz Communications Pty Ltd, →ISBN, page 74:

(telecommunications) A region where mobile phones do not operate because there is no base station or repeater nearby.


Abgesang

/ˈɑp.ɡəˌzɑŋ/

Borrowed from German Abgesang; ab- (“down, from”) + Gesang (“song”).

(prosody, poetry, usually capitalized) Repetition of the same word or phrases for emphasis; epistrophe, especially the concluding section.


near field

near fields (plural)
near-field (alternative)

(electronics, communication) The region within about half a wavelength from an electrically small antenna. More specifically it is the region within the radiansphere.


digital footprint

en-noun

digital footprint (plural digital footprints)

On the other hand, a positive digital footprint can enhance a person's reputation.

2012, Nicholas Croce, Enhancing Your Academic Digital Footprint, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 6:

A person's digital footprint is essentially a digital first impression. As I mention in Chapter 1, a child's digital footprint includes all information related to that child posted online.

2013, Amy Lupold Bair, Raising Digital Families For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

What you most likely found through researching your digital footprint before you branded yourself is that you are a very creative individual who used a vast number of new media tools and technologies […]

2015, James Cohen, Thomas Kenny, Producing New and Digital Media […] , CRC Press, →ISBN, page 239:

(telecommunications) Digital evidence of a person's activities and interactions with others on the Internet, TV, mobile devices, etc.

дигитална следа

digital evidence of a person's activities on the Internet


ultra high frequency

(telecommunications) The frequency area from 300 MHz through 3 GHz, commonly used for TV broadcasting.


super high frequency

(telecommunications) The frequency area from 3 GHz through 30 GHz, commonly used for microwave devices, WLAN, and radars.


cursèd

en-adj

cursèd (comparative more cursèd, superlative most cursèd)

more cursèd (comparative)
most cursèd (superlative)

(poetry) Alternative form of cursed; used to specify a disyllabic pronunciation


conducted interference

(telecommunications) Interference resulting from noise or unwanted signals entering a device by conductive coupling, i.e., by direct coupling.

(telecommunications) An undesired voltage or current generated within, or conducted into, a receiver, transmitter, or associated equipment, and appearing at the antenna terminals.


monopody

(poetry) A measure of a single metrical foot.

(poetry, rare) A line comprising one such measure.


ringer equivalence number

en-noun

ringer equivalence number (plural ringer equivalence numbers)

(telecommunications) A number denoting the electrical load of a telephone ringer circuit on a particular line.


SDLC

(communication) Synchronous Data Link Control


answerback

(telecommunications) A response to a message, originally in radio but now through other media.


jazz poetry

(poetry, jazz) A form of poetry of the 1920s employing jazz-like rhythm or a feeling of improvisation.


model-based design

model-based design (plural model-based designs)

(electronics, communication, signal processing, mathematics, software testing) A mathematical and visual method of addressing problems associated with designing complex control, signal processing and communication systems.


long term evolution

(telephony, mobile telephony) A standard marketed as 4G LTE for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminals.


4G LTE

(telephony, mobile telephony) Synonym of LTE (Long Term Evolution)


LE LL

Low Energy Link Layer
w:Low Energy Link Layer

(computing, communication) Initialism of Low Energy Link Layer.


BLE

Using BLE, a merchant or other provider can define more targeted "micro-locations" to trigger an alert, in some cases requiring that you be in the presence of an iBeacon in order to validate a Passbook entry.

2013 June 19, Daniel Eran Dilger, “Inside iOS 7: iBeacons enhance apps' location awareness via Bluetooth LE”, in Apple Insider:

Bluetooth Low Energy
w:Bluetooth Low Energy

(computing, telecommunications) Initialism of Bluetooth Low Energy.


dodecameter

/ˌdəʊdɛˈkæmɪtə(ɹ)/

(poetry) A complex line that consists of twelve metric feet.


flash cut

(chiefly telecommunications) A change made to a complex system with immediate effect, one made without a phase-in period.


Thuluth

(art, chiefly calligraphy) An Arabic script style.


choliamb

From Latin choliambus, from Ancient Greek χωλίαμβος (khōlíambos).


choliambic

(poetry) Employing or relating to choliambs, or limping iambs.


penthemimeris

/ˌpɛnθɪˈmɪməɹɪs/

From Latin penthēmimeris, from Ancient Greek πενθημιμερής (penthēmimerḗs, “having five half-feet”): πέντε (pénte, “five”) + ἡμι- (hēmi-) + μέρος (méros, “part, metrical foot”).

der

πενθημιμερής

penthemim (alternative)
penthemimer (alternative)
penthemimeres (alternative)

(poetry) A prosal group of two and a half feet.


guard band

guard bands (plural)
guardband (alternative)

(radio, telecommunications) An unused part of the radio spectrum between bands, for the purpose of preventing interference.


DLU

Digital Line Unit
w:de:Digital Line Unit

(telecommunications, EWSD) Initialism of Digital Line Unit.


subinterface

(telecommunications, computing, networking) A division of one physical interface into multiple logical interfaces.


villancico

From Spanish villancico, from villano (“peasant”), from Medieval Latin vīllānus (“villager”).

The villancicos are strophic, but they tend not to extend to the many strophes of narration that were typical of the romance. A standard form for a villancico strophe is ABBA, in which the first A is called the estribillo (refrain), the Bs represent the statement of the music for the copla (stanza) twice (as copla and mudanza), and the return of the estribillo as the vuelta.

2014, James Haar, editor, European Music, 1520–1640, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 447:

(music, poetry) A traditional Spanish (or Portuguese) folk song with short stanzas and a refrain; now especially common as a Christmas carol.

gabon-kanta

traditional Spanish or Portuguese folk song


black noise

(physics, telecommunications) Technical silence; noise that has a frequency spectrum of predominantly zero power level over all frequencies except for a few narrow bands or spikes.


homochronous

In fact, the various multiplexes in the network are homochronous.

1969, White Book, volume 3, International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee:

Two signals having different nominal signaling rates, and not stemming from the same clock or from homochronous clocks are usually heterochronous.

1980, Glossary of telecommunication terms, United States Federal Supply Service, page 55:

(telecommunications) Of two signals, such that their corresponding significant instants are displaced by a constant interval of time.


(telephony) Abbreviation of Number 1A Electronic Switching System.


(telephony) Number 1A voice storage system.


(telephony) Number 1 electronic automatic exchange.


(telephony) Abbreviation of Number 1 Electronic Switching System.


(telephony) Initialism of one-gigabaud fiber channel.


(telecommunications) Initialism of one-party message rate.


Priapean

(poetry) A kind of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three metrical feet each, generally having a trochee in the first and fourth feet and an amphimacer in the third; applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each.


amoebaeum

From the neuter of Latin amoebaeus, from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβαῖος (amoibaîos, “alternate”).

bor

The third eclogue of Virgil is an amoebaeum.

(poetry) A poem in which people are represented speaking alternately.

amebeu

poem in which persons are represented as speaking alternately


FTTN

(telecommunications) Initialism of fibre to the node.


Parnassian

en-adj

Parnassian (comparative more Parnassian, superlative most Parnassian)

more Parnassian (comparative)
most Parnassian (superlative)

From Parnassus, from Latin Parnassus, from Ancient Greek Παρνασσός (Parnassós).

[…] at last, — this is the point to be marked, - they can see things in this Parnassian way and describe them in this Parnassian tongue, without further effort of inspiration.

1864, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems and prose, Penguin Books, published 1954, page 157:

But in Parnassian pieces you feel that if you were the poet you could have gone on as he has done, you see yourself doing it, only with the difference that if you actually try you find you cannot write his Parnassian.

1864, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems and prose, Penguin Books, published 1954, page 158:

'Behold', 'dream a dream', 'mingle': these here have something of the plangent tremulousness which comes when Tennyson is writing 'Parnassian' verse.

1989, Christopher Bruce Ricks, Tennyson, →ISBN, page 212:

One might be tempted to read this conjoining of exoticism and sensuality as a Parnassian exercise, until one reads the rest of the poem: […]

c. 2002, Émile J. Talbot, Reading Nelligan, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 166:

(poetry, from Gerard Manley Hopkins' writings) Describing a style of poetry or language which can only be created by poets, but not in the language of inspiration.


rhyme royal

en-noun

rhyme royal (countable and uncountable, plural rhymes royal)

rhymes royal (plural)
rime royal (alternative)

This term was reportedly first used in the mid-1800s.

Perhaps the most engaging of the Rowley poems are "An Excelente Balade of Charitie," written in the rhyme royal; and "The Bristowe Tragedie," in the common ballad stanza.

1898, Henry Augustin Beers, chapter 10, in 18th Century: A History of English Romanticism:

(uncountable, poetry) A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400).

Chaucer for years before the Prologue to LGW had been writing heroic couplets at the close of each of his rhymes royal.

1938 Jan, H. S. V. Jones, “Brief Mention”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 37, number 1, page 126:

(countable, poetry) A single stanza of this form.


dodoitsu

(poetry) A specific form of Japanese poem without rhyme, having lines of 7-7-7-5 morae.


kharja

Borrowed from Arabic خَرْجَة (ḵarja, literally “final”).

bor+

(poetry) The final refrain of a muwashshah.


thirteener

thirteeners (plural)
Thirteener (alternative)

From thirteen + -er (suffix denoting people characterized by something, or people or things to which certain measurements or numbers apply).

affix

oner · twoer · fiver · sixer · Sevener · niner · tenner · elevener · twelver · fourteener · fifteener · sixteener · hundreder · thousander · twenty-five-thousander

[T]he peculiar Latin thir'''teener so popular in the Middle Ages, and best known by the lines attributed to Mapes—Meum est propositum in taberna mori [My purpose is to die in a tavern].

1910, George Saintsbury, “Origins of Lines and Stanzas”, in Historical Manual of English Prosody, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, book IV (Auxiliary Apparatus), page 325:

By the third decade of the eighteenth century, the syllabic line that really threatened to stay was an uncouth thing of thirteen syllables (counting the obligative feminine terminal), with a caesura after the seventh syllable: […] The order of the stresses in the thirteener went in jumps and jolts and varied from line to line. The only rule (followed only by purists) was that the seventh, caesural, syllable must bear a beat.

1964, Vladimir Nabokov, “The Origination of Metrical Verse in Russia”, in Notes on Prosody […] (Bollingen Series; LXXIIa), New York, N.Y.: Bollingen Foundation, →OCLC, page 35:

The lines are almost uniformly decasyllabic (though the syntax breaks up the iambs early in the sequence), and there are some notable exceptions which mainly cluster toward the end of the final sonnet (one line is a thirteener).

1992, Peter Quartermain, “‘Not at All Surprised by Science’: Louis Zukofsky’s First Half of ‘A’ – 9”, in Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 74:

The term "poulter's measure"—a poulter was a poultry retailer—was originally a joke-name based on the fact that if one bought a dozen eggs in Tudor England a thirteenth was free, like the later "baker's dozen." Thirteener, or poulter's measure, meant couplets (two rhymed lines), the first with six accents or strong beats, the second with seven (often with twelve beats, then fourteen). […] The resembles the standard ballad rhythm, as in Samual Coleridge's famous Rime of the Ancient Mariner: "Water, water, everywhere / And not a drop to drink."

1999, Alan Hager, “The Narrative Source of Romeo and Juliet”, in Understanding Romeo and Juliet: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents (Literature in Context), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 70:

[…] I would first agree with [Earl] Wasserman that the last line ["[shapes] Which walk upon the sea, and chaunt melodiously"] alludes to Jesus walking on water, the point of the allusion being the kerygmatic expression of a form of transcendence, which is more or less specified by the way the other hemistych of this remarkably balanced thirteener – "and chaunt melodiously" – recalls how it is on the breath of enamored air and song that all the vigorously launched members and voices of this scene are sustaining their courses.

2011, Edward T. Duffy, “Recounting Reverses, Recovering the Initiative: Act II of Prometheus Unbound”, in The Constitution of Shelley’s Poetry: The Argument of Language in Prometheus Unbound (Anthem Nineteenth-century Series), London; New York, N.Y.: Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 144:

(poetry) A thirteen-syllable line or series of lines in a poem.


paradelle

Coined by Billy Collins circa 1997; believed to be from a blend of parody + villanelle.

(poetry) A ridiculously restrictive poetic form consisting of four sestets that must repeat lines and reuse all previous words according to a fixed pattern.


crossed line

(telephony) situation when portions of a second call are audible to persons on a telephone connection.


oxia

From the Ancient Greek ὀξεῖᾰ (oxeîă), an elliptical use for ἡ ὀξεῖᾰ προσῳδῐ́ᾱ (hē oxeîă prosōidĭ́ā, “the acute accent”) — ἡ (hē, the nominative feminine singular form of ὁ, ho, “the”, the definite article) + ὀξεῖᾰ (okseia, the nominative feminine singular form of ὀξῠ́ς, oksus, “sharp”, of sound “shrill”, of tones “high-pitched”) + προσῳδῐ́ᾱ (prosōdiā, “variation in pitch of the speaking voice”, “pronunciation of a syllable on a certain pitch”, “a mark [i.e., a diacritic] indicating normally unwritten differences of pronunciation, viz. vowel quantity, breathing, and pitch”).

(orthography and typography) An Ancient Greek pitch-marking diacritic: ⟨ ´ ⟩; written atop vowels, it denotes high pitch on short vowels, and rising pitch on long vowels and diphthongs.

οξεία

Ancient Greek diacritic marking high or rising pitch


chapter book

Such books are typically divided into short chapters, to suit limited attention spans.

(authorship) An illustrated storybook intended for intermediate readers, generally aged from 7 to 10.


secretary hand

en-noun

secretary hand (countable and uncountable, plural secretary hands)

secretary hands (plural)
Secretary hand (alternative)

It is written in three different Secretary hands: the first finishing at stanza 9 but with stanzas unnumbered,[…].

1961, Bernard Mellor, The Poems of Sir Francis Hubert, page 280:

When Mercy Harvey advised the nobleman to imitate her handwriting, she specified that he should write the address on the outside of the letter in "a small raggid secretary hand."

1998, Eve Rachele Sanders, Gender and Literacy on Stage in Early Modern England, page 173:

There are five scribes, all using variations on Secretary hands consistent with the third quarter of the fifteenth century.

2004, “Introduction”, in Stephen H. A. Shepherd, editor, Turpines Story, page xvi:

While originating at the end of the medieval period, the secretary hand was not widely employed until the early modern period, by which time it had completely displaced the earlier court hands.

2004, “Introduction”, in Helen Ostovich, Elizabeth Sauer, editors, Reading Early Modern Women: An Anthology of Texts in Manuscript and Print, 1550 - 1700, page 7:

Most authors, including dramatists, used both a separate secretary and an italic hand; in many cases the secretary hand was used for composing (that is, cursive or fluent) writing and italic for more formal copying.

2006, Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood, page 84:

(historical, calligraphy) A style of handwriting developed in Europe and used during the 16th and 17th centuries for writing English, German, Welsh and Gaelic; a variety of this style.


chancery hand

chancery hands (plural)
Chancery hand (alternative)

It begins like a transcript, at the top of the page, without the least appearance or form of an intended original : it is written in the common secretary hand of ,the age, which Crawford mistook for a chancery hand;[…].

1819, Malcolm Laing, The History of Scotland, volume 1, page 373:

Her name, from Crawford's example of it, seems to me to be written in the same chancery hand, which renders the supposed forgery a mere copy, mistaken by Welwood for the original.

1830, John Pinkerton, The Literary Correspondence of John Pinkerton, Esq., volume 2, page 112:

But, unlike his posterity, Hercolani did not carry this sort of pleasantry too far, and his book remains a splendid specimen of the late chancery hand distinguished by decorative treatment of the ascenders and descenders and a discreet flourishing of initial and terminal letters.

2009, Stanley Morison, Selected Essays on the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print, page 165:

(calligraphy, historical) Either of two styles of handwriting: a written form of black letter used in France and England from about 1350, developed in the Lateran chancelry in the 13th century, or a style of cursive handwriting introduced in the 1420s by Niccolò de' Niccoli, developed from humanist minuscule; a variety of either of these styles.


Carolingian minuscule

Carolingian minuscule (usually uncountable, plural Carolingian minuscules)

The Carolingian minuscule, which we have already found brought to perfection at Tours and at other centres of France, was the literary hand of the Frankish Empire, and extended its influence and was gradually adopted in neighbouring countries.

1912, Edward Maunde Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography, published 2013, page 403:

The Carolingian empire did not endure past the 9th century; yet Carolingian minuscule survived in France well into the 12th century, as it continued to be the preferred style of writing in monastic book production.

1995, William W. Kibler, editor, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, page 1304:

Later Merovingian hands, however, often from Italy and drawing heavily from half uncials, prefigured the later Carolingian minuscule and achieved a certain graceful legibility.

2001, Steven Roger Fischer, History of Writing, published 2003, page 247:

(calligraphy, historical) A script developed to standardise writing in the Latin alphabet throughout the Holy Roman Empire, used between approximately 800 and 1200 CE.

Written in black ink in Carolingian minuscules, holdings are identified by reference to the vill in which they were situated and their assessment is noted, whilst the lord in 1086 is indicated by an interlineation in red in the same hand.

2000, David Roffe, Domesday: The Inquest and the Book, page 85:

(calligraphy, usually in the plural) A character written in the script.


Leonine verse

Leonine verse (countable and uncountable, plural Leonine verses)

(poetry) A kind of medieval Latin verse, generally alternative hexameter and pentameter, with rhyming at the middle and end of a line (that is, internal rhyme); also, the form of such verse.


male rhyme

male rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural male rhymes)

(poetry) A rhyme in which only the last syllable agrees, as in "laid", "afraid", "dismayed".


protag

When things have gotten as bad as they can get for the protags, with seemingly no way out, just as they are about to be overpowered by the superior horrific force, something enables them to triumph […]

2008, Robert Brewer, The Craft & Business Of Writing, page 116:

(informal, fiction, writing) Clipping of protagonist.


Polybius square

Polybius square (plural Polybius squares)

From Polybius + square (“grid”). It was invented by the Ancient Greek historian and scholar Polybius.

(telecommunications, historical) A character code represented by two sets of six lit torches, used to send messages character by character, in a two point visual fire telegraph. The character code is generated by encoding characters in a grid, where each character generates two numbers, uniquely representing each character as a pair of numbers.


nonwireline

(telecommunications) Not being or relating to a landline.


logaoedic

/lɒɡəˈiːdɪk/

From Latin logaoedicus, from Ancient Greek λογᾰοιδῐκός (logăoidĭkós), from λόγος (lógos, “speech, prose”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”).

affix

logaedic (alternative)
logaœdic (alternative)

Hence this metre was frequently used by the Æolians, and their strophes were principally formed by connecting logaœdic rhythms with trochees, iambi, and Æolic dactyls.

1840, Karl Otfried Müller (author of the original German), George Cornewall Lewis (translator of chapters I–XXII), “The Æolic School of Lyric Poetry.” (chapter XIII, pages 164–189), in History of the Literature of Ancient Greece (Library of Useful Knowledge), volume I, London: printed by William Clowes and Sons for Baldwin and Cradock, page 171:

The Glyconeus, which has a logaœdic order.

1844, Major, Guide Gr. Trag., second edition, page 159:

Anapæstic Logaœdics are identical in their rhythm with…Logaœdic Dactyls.

1855, Linwood, Greek Tragic Metres, page 79:

The essential difference between choreic and logaoedic rhythm is that of ictus.

1883, Jebb, Œdipus Tyran., Introduction, page 72:

(poetry) Of any metre rhythmically intermediate between ordinary speech (or prose) and song (or poetry), typically combining dactyls and trochees.

logaœdique

of metres rhythmically between speech and song


logaoedic

logaoedics (plural)
logaedic (alternative)
logaœdic (alternative)

/lɒɡəˈiːdɪk/

Chorees and logaoedics can be extended to Series of six measures.

1879, J. W. White, transl., Schmidt’s Rhythmic & Metric, § 21, page 65:


round-trip delay time

en-noun

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

(less common, telecommunications) Round-trip time.


software defined radio

software defined radio (plural software defined radios)

digital signal processor
digital signal processor

analog-to-digital converter
analog-to-digital converter

digital-to-analog converter
digital-to-analog converter

(telecommunications) A radio that creates and receives radio signals through software controlled DSPs (digital signal processors) with ADCs (analog-to-digital converters) and DACs (digital-to-analog converters).

sound card

a software controlled audio source and receiver that uses ADCs, DACs, and DSPs


brevis in longo

(poetry, Greek and Latin meter) The situation where a short syllable at the end of a line can be counted as long.


supermastergroup

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(telecommunications) A group of mastergroups.


mastergroup

(telecommunications) A group of supergroups.


DECT

(telecommunications) Initialism of digital enhanced cordless telecommunications (a standard originated in Europe that is primarily used for creating cordless phone systems).


FCD

(telecommunications) Initialism of floating car data (“a method to determine the traffic speed on a road network”).


undecasyllabic

The subdivision forms octave stanzas of the Italian form, undecasyllabic triple measure, in feminine rhyme, of triple alternating lines, with a finishing couplet.

1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Central America. 1886-1887, page 61:

(linguistics, poetry) Having eleven syllables.


smooth breathing

smooth breathing (plural smooth breathings)

(orthography) A diacritic mark (᾿/◌̓) in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Greek used to indicate the absence of aspiration for an initial vowel, and sometimes for rho, e.g. ἀ, ῤ


selfie stick

For example, photography shop Artworkfoto in Funan DigitaLife Mall sells about five selfie sticks every day.

2014 March 30, Benson Ang, “Selfie sticks are hot”, in The Sunday Times, Singapore, page L4:

We snapped another selfie (one of the guys, Royston out of our newly acquired Singapore Zopim office, introduced the Exchange to the selfie stick, and that photo is now legendary.)

2014, Mikkel Svane, Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business, John Wiley & Sons (2014), pages 176-177, published 8 December

The needs of selfie takers feed into new product development such as a selfie stick that allows the ul-jang angle, a mirrorless DSLR camera with a 180-degree tilting LCD window, a motion-detecting shutter, and a camera with wireless internet for transferring images.

2015 January, Yoo Jin Kwon, Kyoung-Nan Kwon, “Consuming the Objectified Self: The Quest for Authentic Self”, in Asian Social Science, page 310:

(mobile telephony) An extendable monopod arm onto which a smartphone or camera can be mounted in order to take wide-angle photographs of oneself.


Manchester coding

Developed at the University of Manchester in England.

(telecommunications) A line code in which the encoding of each data bit has at least one transition and occupies the same time.


partheniac

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “maiden; virgin”) + -ac.

bor

(Ancient Greek and Latin poetry) of or pertaining to some form of irregular anapestic meter


partheniac

partheniacs (plural)
Partheniac (alternative)

(Ancient Greek and Latin poetry, obsolete) a line of partheniac meter


Partheniac

From Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “maiden; virgin”) + -ac.

(Ancient Greek and Latin poetry, obsolete) Alternative form of partheniac.


Partheniac

Partheniacs (plural)
partheniac (alternative)


isosyllabism

From isosyllabic + -ism, from iso- + syllabic.

(linguistics, poetry) the use of isosyllabic verse


isosyllabic

(linguistics, poetry) of or pertaining to metrical systems in which syllables are of equal length

isosyllabique

of meters with syllables of equal length


anisosyllabic

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From aniso- + syllabic or an- + iso- + syllabic.

(linguistics, poetry) of or pertaining to metrical systems in which syllables are of differing lengths

anisosillabico

of meters with syllables of differing length


anisosyllabism

From anisosyllabic + -ism, from an- + iso- + syllabic.

(linguistics, poetry) the use of anisosyllabic verse


isosyllabicity

From isosyllabic + -ity, from iso- + syllabic.


(mobile telephony) Abbreviation of 4th generation, a cellular phone communication standard.


dial-around

(telecommunications, chiefly attributive) A service that allows an international (or other) telephone call to be made indirectly through another number, thus avoiding the usual call routing and potentially saving money.


iOS

From i- + OS. Many Apple products have an i- prefix in their names.

Not all of my vibecoding experiments have been successful. I've been struggling for weeks to build an "inbox autopilot" tool capable of responding to my emails automatically, in my writing style. I've encountered roadblocks when trying to integrate A.I. work flows into apps like Google Photos and iOS Voice Memos, which aren't designed to play well with third-party add-ons.

2025 February 27, “Not a Coder? With A.I., Just Having an Idea Can Be Enough.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2025-03-14:

(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile operating system (OS) created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.


Alcmanian

en-adj

Alcmanian (comparative more Alcmanian, superlative most Alcmanian)

more Alcmanian (comparative)
most Alcmanian (superlative)

(poetry) A verse comprising four dactyls, a dactylic tetrameter.


ghost call

(telephony) A telephone call for which, when the recipient of the call answers, there is no one on the other end.


radiotelegram

wireless telegraphy
wireless telegraphy#English

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


ottava rima

en-noun

ottava rima (usually uncountable, plural ottave rime)

/ɒˌtɑːvə ˈɹiːmə/

/oʊˌtɑvə ˈɹimə/

Borrowed from Italian ottava rima (literally “eighth rhyme”).

bor

(poetry) An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet (ab ab ab cc).

օկտավ

arrangement of stanzas of eight lines rhyming ab ab ab cc


diplex

(telegraphy) Involving the transmission of two messages in the same direction at the same time.


anticoherer

(historical, telegraphy) A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this device increase its resistance several times.


technography

en-noun

technography (countable and uncountable, plural technographies)

(telecommunications) Live capture of meeting notes while projecting the real-time transcription to participants.


autocoherer

(historical, wireless telegraphy) A self-restoring coherer, such as a microphonic detector.


hopset

(telecommunications) A set of frequencies available for use by a wireless network.


Hamming code

Named after American mathematician Richard Hamming (1915–1998).

named-after

(telecommunications) Any of a family of linear error-correcting codes that generalize the Hamming(7,4)-code invented by Richard Hamming in 1950.


RX

(electronics, telecommunications) Abbreviation of receive.


RX

en-noun

RX (countable and uncountable, plural RXs)

(electronics, telecommunications) Abbreviation of receiver.


HSPA

(communication, mobile) Initialism of High Speed Packet Access, amalgamation of two mobile telephony protocols that extends and improves the performance of existing 3G networks by using the WCDMA protocols.


WCDMA

(communication, mobile) Initialism of Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, an air interface standard found in 3G mobile telecommunications networks.


NPAPI

(communication, mobile) Initialism of Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface, a cross-platform plugin architecture used by some Web browsers.


ESnet

(communication) Abbreviation of Energy Sciences Network, a high-speed computer network serving DOE scientists and their collaborators worldwide.


arsic

(poetry) Of the elevation of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word, usually the part of the word or phrase upon which the stress or accent falls.

(poetry) Of the part of the metrical foot upon which such an elevation falls.


mailgram

Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores, Inc. has been the target of a national mailgram campaign since March 13. Complaints have been received from major investors, and demonstrations have been held at several restaurants.

1991 May 4, Jacob Smith Yang, “Cracking Down On Cracker Barrel”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

(telegraphy) A telegraphic message transmitted electronically from the sender to a post office and then printed and delivered to the recipient via physical post.


capcode

[…] to overcome the paging network limitation on the amount of data that may be sent to a single address, or capcode in paging terminology, messages are sent on groups of pooled addresses and received at the user end on corresponding pools of addresses.

2011, John M. Payne et al., System and method for transmission of data, US Patent 8572279 (PDF version):

(telecommunications) The address of a specific pager in a paging network


self-publish

en-verb

self-publish (third-person singular simple present self-publishes, present participle self-publishing, simple past and past participle self-published)

self-publishes (present singular third-person)
self-publishing (participle present)
self-published (participle past)
self-published (past)
self-pub (alternative)
selfpub (alternative)

(authorship) To publish a work independently, without the assistance of a publishing company.


trad-pub

trad-pubs (plural)
tradpub (alternative)
trad pub (alternative)

traditional publisher
traditional publisher

(authorship) A work that has been published through a third-party publishing company, or a traditional publisher.


trad-pub

trad-pub (third-person singular simple present trad-pubs, present participle trad-pubbing, simple past and past participle trad-pubbed)

trad-pubs (present singular third-person)
trad-pubbing (participle present)
trad-pubbed (participle past)
trad-pubbed (past)
tradpub (alternative)
trad pub (alternative)

(authorship, informal) To publish a work via a third-party publishing company, or traditional publisher.


MCU

multipoint control unit
multipoint control unit#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of multipoint control unit.


lineman splice

(telecommunications, electronics) A method of tightly joining two ends of metal wire by twisting each around the other.


rat-tail splice

en-noun

rat-tail splice (plural rat-tail splices)

(knotting, telecommunications) A simple method of joining two ends of metal wire by twisting them together.


Western Union splice

Western Union splice (plural Western Union splices)

In reference to the communication company Western Union.

(electronics, telecommunications) A method of tightly joining two ends of metal wire by twisting each around the other.


said-bookism

From The Said Book + -ism; coined by James Blish, writing under the pen name William Atheling Jr., after The Said Book, the title of a booklet for aspiring writers listing countless alternatives to the word “said” in writing dialogue.

Jim Blish once dedicated a book to me. He introduced me to the music of Charles Ives, to the taste of Vander Flip, to the urgency of avoiding the said-bookism, to the concept of the watershed, to the pleasures of Indo-Ceylonese food.

1980, Harlan Ellison, Shatterday, Houghton Mifflin, Dedication

(authorship, rare) A verb (such as "explained", "shouted", or "uttered") used to indicate dialogue when writing fiction, chosen so as to avoid using the word "said".

(authorship, uncountable) The studious avoidance, in writing dialogue, of the word "said".


OPC UA

(communication, programming) Abbreviation of OPC Unified Architecture (an industrial M2M communication protocol for interoperability developed by the OPC Foundation).


OPC DA

(communication, programming) Initialism of OPC Data Access, the first of a group of specifications known as the Classic OPC Specifications.


OPC HDA

(communication, programming) Initialism of OPC Historical Data Access, a group of standards of the OPC Foundation that provides COM specifications for communicating data from devices, like databases, and applications that provide historical data.


HDA

(communication) Initialism of historical data access, an OPC standard.


OPC AE

(communication, programming) Initialism of OPC Alarms & Events, an OPC Specification for alarms and events.


GRX

(telecommunications) GPRS roaming exchange


hamburger menu

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, mobile telephony) A dropdown menu whose presence is indicated by a hamburger icon (i.e. the triple bar ≡).


hamburger icon

The three lines suggest a stylised hamburger, i.e. a layer of meat between two layers of bread.

(graphical user interface, mobile telephony) A symbol consisting of three parallel horizontal lines (i.e. the triple bar ≡), used to indicate a dropdown menu.


hamburger button

hamburger button (plural hamburger buttons)

(graphical user interface, mobile telephony) A button displaying the hamburger icon (three parallel horizontal lines: ≡), used to activate a dropdown menu.


heptapody

From hepta- + -pody, from Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”) and πούς, ποδός (poús, podós, “foot”).

(poetry) A measure or series consisting of seven feet.


local loop

(telecommunications) The physical link or circuit that connects from the demarcation point of the customer premises to the edge of the common carrier or telecommunications service provider's network.


phonopore

(historical, telecommunications) An invention allowing telephonic voice communications to be transmitted over existing Morse code telegraph infrastructure.


demon dialing

From the Demon Dialer product from Zoom Telephonics, Inc., a telephone device produced in the 1980s which repeatedly dialed busy telephone numbers under control of an extension phone.

(telephony) The use of a computer to dial a number repeatedly (usually to a crowded modem pool) in an attempt to gain access immediately after another user has hung up.


ISI

intersymbol interference
w:intersymbol interference

(telecommunications) Abbreviation of intersymbol interference.


RBOC

Regional Bell Operating Company
w:Regional Bell Operating Company

(US, telecommunications) Initialism of Regional Bell Operating Company.


PLMN

(telecommunications) Initialism of Public Land Mobile Network.


Catullan

en-adj

Catullan (comparative more Catullan, superlative most Catullan)

more Catullan (comparative)
most Catullan (superlative)

He does so chiefly by employing graphic language (especially related to passive homosexual acts) which calls into sexual question the virility of the Catullan persona.

1996, Christopher John Nappa, The man and the mask : persona, character, and technique in the poems of Catullus:

(poetry) Of or relating to the ancient poet Catullus.


hexapody

en-noun

hexapody (countable and uncountable, plural hexapodies)

From hexa- + -pody, from Ancient Greek ἑξα- (hexa-, “six”) and πούς, ποδός (poús, podós, “foot”).

(poetry, countable) A verse or measure of six metrical feet.


TNC

threaded Neill–Concelman
TNC connector#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of threaded Neill–Concelman connector.


(mobile telephony) Abbreviation of 5th generation, a mobile network communication standard.


homeset

homesets (plural)
home-set (alternative)
home set (alternative)

The larger homeset dish (perhaps as large as two meters) would be much more difficult to mount than the .6-meter BSS-band dish used by STC and other operators.

1983, Mary Louise Hollowell, The cable/broadband communications books: 1982-1983, →ISBN:

DBS is the system of broadcasting television signals in the 12.2-12.7 GHz band from a very high power satellite in geostationary orbit (GSO) directly to a "homeset."

1993, Hsiao-Yun Hu, The development of cable television and satellite, page 68:

direct broadcast satellite
direct broadcast satellite

(telecommunications) The equipment (satellite) for receiving signals from a direct broadcast satellite service.


single-user

(computing, telecommunications) Of an operating system, etc., only capable of serving one user at a time, not many users simultaneously.


throwbox

We identify that an information dissemination technique that exploits the throwbox infrastructure can cover only a fixed number of popular places irrespective of the time spent.

2016, Sudipta Saha, Animesh Mukherjee, Niloy Ganguly, “Coverage analysis of information dissemination in throwbox-augmented DTN”, in arXiv:

(telecommunications) A stationary access point used to forward data in a delay-tolerant network.


redialer

redialers (plural)
redialler (alternative)

(telecommunications) A device that forwards a dialed number to another destination.


in full flow

Clattenburg pulled play back and infuriated Pardew a second time when Joel Ward carried on in a promising position despite being fouled by Marcos Rojo, only to be stopped in full flow by the official.

2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC:

(talking, acting or moving) rapidly, with no sign of stopping


quality of service

(telecommunications) The overall performance of a telephony or computer network, based on error rates, throughput, transmission delay, etc.


hendecameter

(poetry, rare) A line of verse containing eleven metrical feet.


TL;DW

TL (canonical)
DW (canonical)
tl;dw (alternative)

(online communication) Initialism of too long; didn’t watch, signaling that a video message lacked communicative efficacy because of its length.


VSAT

very small aperture terminal
very small aperture terminal#English

(telecommunications) Acronym of very small aperture terminal.


unfooted

an unfooted schwa


waterfilling

From water + filling, by analogy with the behaviour of water when it finds a uniform level according to Pascal's law.

Moreover, we derive the solution to the latter subproblem, that we dub non-homogeneous waterfilling (a variation on the MIMO waterfilling solution), and underline an inherent desirable feature: its ability to turn-off streams exhibiting low-SINR, thereby greatly speeding up the convergence of the proposed algorithm.

2016, Hadi Ghauch, Taejoon Kim, Mats Bengtsson, Mikael Skoglund, “Separability and Sum-Rate Maximization in MIMO Interfering Networks”, in arXiv:

(telecommunications) The situation where each channel in a communication network is amplified to a sufficient level to compensate for impairments.


zero out

en-verb

zero out (third-person singular simple present zeroes out or zeros out, present participle zeroing out, simple past and past participle zeroed out)

zeroes out (present singular third-person)
zeros out (present singular third-person)
zeroing out (participle present)
zeroed out (participle past)
zeroed out (past)

(telecommunications, intransitive) To press or dial 0 in order to escape a voicemail recording facility and speak to an operator.


Centrex

private branch exchange
private branch exchange

(telecommunications) A service similar to a private branch exchange, but providing switching at the central office instead of at the customer's premises.


ACD

en-noun

ACD (countable and uncountable, plural ACDs)

automatic call distributor
automatic call distributor#English

(telephony, call routing, countable) Initialism of automatic call distributor.

automated call distribution
automated call distribution#English

(telephony, call routing, uncountable) Initialism of automated call distribution.


VoLTE

(telecommunications) voice over long term evolution


RTC

(telecommunications) Initialism of real-time communications.


telephone girl

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-telephone girl.wav

I've just had a row with a telephone girl, a telephone girl, my brain's in a whirl.

1915, W. David, J. Barnett, Hermann Darewski, “Which Switch is the Switch, Miss, for Ipswich?”:

(telephony, dated) A female telephone operator.


WebRTC

(telecommunications) An open source technology that enables real-time communication (RTC) such as data, voice or video, directly from a Web browser.


EDGE

Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
w:Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution

(mobile telephony) Acronym of Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution.


monorimed

(poetry) Alternative form of monorhymed.


(mobile telephony, retronym) Referring to standards before 2.75G.


GSM-R

(railway, telecommunications) Initialism of GSM Rail(way).


voice over IP

Subject: Voice over IP and/or OSI? Message: Am looking for information on software/hardware to allow voice transmission over IP and/or OSI stacks. Please post or mail direct. Thanks in advance.

1992 April 10, Steve Johnson, “Voice over IP and/or OSI?”, in comp.sys.sun.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-01, message-ID <534@trwacs.fp.trw.com>:

Is there an application that will let use broadcast audio and let individual machines 'tune in' on the connection?? Will we get decent bandwidth (i.e. sample rates at 32 or 48 kHz) or the crappy bandwidth like 8.192 kHz used for voice over IP (i.e. NeVOT) ??

1993 September 26, Jim Doyle, “Listening to CDs over the LAN ??”, in comp.sys.sgi.apps (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-01, message-ID <284o3jINNmc2@ymir.cs.umass.edu>:

A router, by definition, cannot carry isochronous traffic such as voice. Some hard-core Internet fanatics, who detest telephone companies for a living (something about being chased away from the pay phone they were phreaking as a kid), will try to run voice over IP. It is like teaching a pig to sing: It won't sound good, and it annoys the pig.

1993 October 9, Fred R. Goldstein, “Re: How Will Routers Compete Against Digital Switches?”, in comp.dcom.telecom (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-01, message-ID <telecom13.690.10@eecs.nwu.edu>:

(Internet, telephony) Voice over Internet Protocol (also "VoIP"), a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls.


TNs

(telecommunications) Initialism of total notspot.


FUP

(mobile telephony) Initialism of fair usage policy.


candlestick telephone

candlestick telephone (plural candlestick telephones)

(telephony, historical) An early style of telephone with a mouthpiece (transmitter) mounted at the top of its stand, and a receiver that was held by the user to the ear during a call. When not in use, the receiver rested in the fork of the switch hook protruding to the side of the stand, thereby disconnecting the audio circuit from the network.


saturnian

en-adj

saturnian (comparative more saturnian, superlative most saturnian)

more saturnian (comparative)
most saturnian (superlative)


tenson

Kolsen himself (op. cit., II, p. 16) remarks that it seems surprising that, at this early stage in a career which dated only from about 1165 (cf. Jeanroy, op. cit. II, p. 51, note 2), Giraut should address his interlocutor, Raimbaut, in the familiar second person in contrast with his much more formal manner a few years later in the tenson on trobar clus, placed by Pattison shortly before Christmas, 1170 (op. cit., p. 23). One may wonder why Giraut should write his part of the tenson with such deference to Raimbaut if they had met and written together as early as 1166.

1976, Peire Rogier, Derek E. T. Nicholson, The Poems of the Troubadour Peire Rogier, →ISBN, page 25:

Another type of medieval text that could highlight conflicting perspectives is the Provencal lyric form called the tenson. The tenson involves a dialogue between two voices that take turns discussing a subject, either in alternating stanzas or in two groups of stanzas that mirror each other in form. In most cases, the two halves of a tenson are attributed to different poets, who in effect engage in an exchange or debate that is then presented as a single work, creating a paradox of unity and difference, closure and inconclusiveness.

1998, Rosemarie Potz McGerr, Chaucer's Open Books: Resistance to Closure in Medieval Discourse, →ISBN:

In Gryll Grange, however, the tenson functions as the basis for the advancement of the plot (which is the production of an Aristophanic comedy) and characterises the continual debate between what is uttered (e.g^([sic]) the name Palestine Soup) and what is not uttered (the word-associational etymology that Dr. Opimian offers for the name).

2014, David Musgrave, Grotesque Anatomies: Menippean Satire since the Renaissance, →ISBN:

(poetry) A form of lyric poem used by troubadours in Provençal in which two voices present different sides of an argument, in alternate stanzas, lines, or groups of lines with identical structure.


repeatered

repeatered (comparative more repeatered, superlative most repeatered)

more repeatered (comparative)
most repeatered (superlative)

(telecommunications) Fitted with repeaters, as on a transmission line


exit code

(telephony) A sequence of digits that must be dialled before the target number when placing an international call from a given country.


Tx

(uncountable, electronics, telecommunications) Abbreviation of transmission.


full duplex

(telecommunications) Describing a duplex system in which both parties can communicate with each other simultaneously


half duplex

(telecommunications) Synonym of semiduplex.


earth station

(telecommunications) an Earth-based radio station which relays signals to and from communications satellites.

jordstation

Earth-based satellite communications station


microformal

Other microformal characteristics also mark these traditional, oral tales, such as the absence of the necessary enjambment — the basic element is the line or the hemistich, as also in the romancero -- and what Parry calls the thrift of formulaic art ("each position in the verse tends to allow one way rather than many ways of saying any one thing" if we are speaking of a single bard), a quality also found in Hesiod.

1993, Claudio Guillén, The challenge of comparative literature - Volume 42, page 174:

Shakespeare's microformal analysis is the commensurate response to a world of forms emerging into and out of relation.

2010, Michael Carl Schoenfeldt, Michael Schoenfeldt, A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, →ISBN, page 254:

Each of these pieces deals with the microformal elements of the text in ways that underpin my larger, structural argument about the imaginative effect of the text.

2015, Evelyn Reynolds, “Beowulf's Poetics of Absorption: Narrative Syntax and the Illusion of Stability in the Fight with Grendel's Mother”, in Essays in Medieval Studies, volume 31:

(literature, poetry) Pertaining to the characteristics and patterns of lines or phrases, as opposed to the structure of the entire work.


maqta

(poetry) The last couplet of a ghazal, typically incorporating the poet's pen name in a creative way.


silent h

Examples include the silent h in ghost (to match Dutch gheest, which later became geest), aghast, ghastly and gherkin.

2019, Carson Stewart, History of the English Language, page 178:

(orthography) A letter ⟨h⟩ that is written but not pronounced.


batchim

batchims (plural)
batchim (plural)
patchim (alternative)

(orthography) The final consonant (or consonant cluster) at the end of a Korean syllable.


Turing switch

Named after Alan Turing, though not based on his research.

(networking, telecommunications) A logical construction modelling the operation of the network switch, just as in theoretical computer science a Turing machine models the operation of a computer.


WebVTT

(communication) Acronym of Web Video Text Tracks.


lekythion

lekythia (plural)
lecythion (alternative)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ληκύθιον (lēkúthion, “small oil-flask”), in reference to a passage in Aristophanes' comedy The Frogs.

bor

(poetry) In classical Greek and Latin poetry, a metric pattern defined by a sequence of seven alternating long and short syllables at the end of a verse.


freewrite

en-verb

freewrite (third-person singular simple present freewrites, present participle freewriting, simple past freewrote, past participle freewritten)

freewrites (present singular third-person)
freewriting (participle present)
freewrote (past)
freewritten (participle past)

(writing) To write continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling, grammar, or topic.


freewrite

(writing) Something that is freewritten.


botherance

en-noun

botherance (countable and uncountable, plural botherances)

(telecommunications, informal) Distracting chatter on a radio link shared by emergency services, relating to ongoing situations other than what one is dealing with.


internal monologue

internal monologue (plural internal monologues)

(communication, psychology) The inner voice of a person which provides a running verbal monologue of their thoughts, important in planning, problem solving, self-reflection, etc.

anauralia

the absence of auditory imagery, particularly the lack of an inner voice.


acromonogrammatic

(poetry) Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.


DTM

(telecommunications) Synonym of D2M: Initialism of direct-to-mobile.


store and forward

(telecommunications) The technique of having information sent to an intermediate station where it is kept and later relayed to its destination.


beige box

Beige box (phreaking)
gray-box testing
white box (software engineering)

(telephony, hacking) A device used in phreaking, technically equivalent to a telephone company lineman's handset: a telephone fitted with alligator clips to attach it to a line.


brown box

(telephony) A device used in phreaking that allows the creation of a party line from two telephone lines.

gray-box testing
white box (software engineering)


postcursor

(telecommunications) Of intersymbol interference: caused by the preceding symbol.


spot beam

spot beams (plural)
spotbeam (alternative)

(telecommunications) A satellite signal that is specially concentrated in power (i.e. sent by a high-gain antenna) so that it will cover only a limited geographic area on Earth.


(Canada, US, telephony) Alternative form of 411.


vocabularyclept

From vocabulary + Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō, “I steal”).

It seems reasonable that vocabularyclept poems should be signed first by the poet of combination and second by the poet of permutation, since combination necessarily precedes permutation.

1973, Howard W. Bergerson, Palindromes and Anagrams, page 22:

The second text is just a rearrangement by word of the first; it can be seen as a “vocabularyclept” text created from the first. Here's an even simpler vocabularyclept example: This movie was a great experience, and not disappointing. This movie was not a great experience, and disappointing.

2016, Nick Montfort, Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, page 200:

(poetry) Being a form of poem that is a rearrangement of the words of an existing work.


spondaical

(poetry) Having or relating to spondees.


en:2006 transatlantic aircraft plot security reaction

(Canada, US, telephony) Alternative form of 311.


point-to-point

From point (“individual element in a larger whole; specific location or place; topic of discussion or debate”) + to + point.

Travelling directly from a starting point to an ending point, or from one point to another in a series of points without passing through any intermediate points.

(telecommunications) Employing a simple network topology with a dedicated link between two endpoints.

punt a punt

employing a simple network topology with a dedicated link between two endpoints


dialout

dialout (countable and uncountable, plural dialouts)

(telecommunications) connection to an external network via modem etc.


LNP

LNP (countable and uncountable, plural LNPs)

(telecommunications, uncountable) Initialism of local number portability.


galliambus

From Latin Galli + iambus. Used by the Galli, priests of the Phrygian goddess Cybele. The first element, Ancient Greek γάλλος (gállos), was said by Ovid to be named after a Phrygian river.

(poetry) A verse consisting of four Ionics a minore, with variations and substitutions.


lenvoy

The First parte of the Mirour on its first appearance, in 1574, included sixteen tragedies and ended with the tragedy of Nennius, after which a conclusion was made in a lenvoy of five stanzas.

1946 [1574], Lily B. Campbell, “Introduction”, in John Higgins, Thomas Blenerhasset, The Mirror for Magistrates, page 7:

Ladies! Lenvoy to you that have this prize; I reed ye hold your owne, if you be wise.

1815, Thomas Park, Heliconia: A Selection of English Poetry (1575-1604), page 134:

For at the end of Bk. II. there is a lenvoy, commencing "Rome, remember of thy foundation"; it is one of the best of Lydgate's remarkable lenvoys, rendered pompous and sonorous by the monotony of its rhyme-system, for it has only three rhymes in its 126 lines (133 in Tottel's)!

1898, Wilbraham Fitzjohn Trench, A Mirror for Magistrates: Its Origin and Influence, page 20:


redondilla

From Spanish redondilla. Doublet of rondelle.

(poetry) An early verse form in which the first and fourth and the second and third lines of the stanza generally rhymed.

(poetry) In later Spanish use, a verse of six and eight syllables in general, whether making perfect rhymes or assonances only.


LoRa

(acronym, communication) a wireless data communication technology


miurus

From Ancient Greek μείουρος (meíouros), from μείων (meíōn, “curtailed, lesser”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).

(poetry) A dactylic hexameter with short penultimate syllable.


OOLR

(telecommunications) Abbreviation of overall objective loudness rating.


SIT

(telecommunications) Initialism of special information tone.


broadcast radiation

(telecommunications) The accumulation of broadcast and multicast traffic on a computer network.


broadcast storm

broadcast storm (plural broadcast storms)

(telecommunications) Extreme amounts of broadcast traffic over a computer network, typically caused by a loop in the network topology.


dicatalectic

(poetry) doubly catalectic, at both the middle and the end of the verse


dialogue tag

Not every paragraph of dialogue needs to have a dialogue tag attached to it.

Sometimes inexperienced writers will discover the useful tool of tacking on detail to a dialog tag with a present participal or adverbial phrase: "It's too late," she said, closing the door.

2000, Tom Romano, Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers, →ISBN, page 63:

A dialogue tag has to indicate sound

2004, Leslie Wainger, Writing a Romance Novel For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons:

An alternative style forsakes italics altogether and assigns a dialogue tag: This is going nowhere, he thought.

2011, Deborah Halverson, Writing Young Adult Fiction For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons:

A line of dialogue followed by a dialogue tag looks like this: “Nothing suits me better than a fried egg on toast early in the morning,” Billy said.

2015, Kris James with Laura E. Koons and Stefanie Spangler Buswell, Beyond the Style Manual: Bundle #1, Red Adept Publishing:

(narratology, authorship) A sentence part that attributes a piece of written dialogue to its speaker. (e.g. In "Get out of here," he said, "he said" is a dialogue tag.)


radioplay

(authorship) A script for a story to be produced as a radio show, such as a radio drama.


A-story

(authorship) The main plot in a story, especially a television show.


self-edit

en-verb

self-edit (third-person singular simple present self-edits, present participle self-editing, simple past and past participle self-edited)

self-edits (present singular third-person)
self-editing (participle present)
self-edited (participle past)
self-edited (past)

(authorship) To edit one's own writing while it is being written.


narrative hook

(authorship) A highly exciting opening to a book intended to peak a reader's interest.


page-one rewrite

en-noun

page-one rewrite (plural page-one rewrites)

page-one rewrites (plural)
page one rewrite (alternative)

(authorship) A complete rewrite from the beginning, most commonly of a screenplay.


book tour

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(authorship) A series of public events performed by authors in order to promote a newly-released book, including book signings, media appearances, etc.


expository lump

expository lump (plural expository lumps)

(authorship) A portion of a story that contains an excessive amount of exposition.


earn out

en-verb

earn out (third-person singular simple present earns out, present participle earning out, simple past and past participle earned out or earnt out)

earns out (present singular third-person)
earning out (participle present)
earned out (participle past)
earned out (past)
earnt out (participle past)
earnt out (past)

Until the total of advances in that contract has been earned out by royalties from any or all books in that contract, the author will not receive additional royalties.

2014, Richard Curtis, Mastering the Business of Writing:

(authorship) To make more money from a book than it cost to run an advertising campaign for it; to make enough in royalties to cover the advance a book received.


Spenserian stanza

en-noun

Spenserian stanza (plural Spenserian stanzas)

Invented by English poet Edmund Spenser (1552/53–1599) for his epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590–96).

(poetry) A strophe of eight decasyllabic lines and an alexandrine, having three rhymes: the first and third; the second, fourth, fifth, and seventh; and the sixth, eighth, and ninth (ABABBCBCC).


elegiac pentameter

(poetry) A poetic metre of six dactylic feet, the third and sixth shortened to a single long syllable.


marsiya

From Persian مرثیه (marsiye), from Arabic مَرْثِيَة (marṯiya).

(poetry) An elegiac poem written to commemorate the martyrdom and valour of Hussain ibn Ali and his comrades of the Karbala'.


free-hanging

(editing, typography; said of headings or list items) Not run in; on a separate line (or multiple separate lines) defined by hard returns.


common carrier

(US, telecommunications) A company providing public telecommunications facilities.


kionedon

From Ancient Greek κιονηδόν (kionēdón), from κίων (kíōn, “pillar”) + -ηδον (-ēdon, “adverbial suffix”).

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) in a vertical manner, as on a pillar (kion); in vertical lines from top to bottom.


kionedon

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Written in a vertical manner, as on a pillar (kion)


kionedon

(historical, calligraphy, of writing) Writing that is vertical, as on a pillar (kion)


refarmed

(US, Australia, telecommunications) having undergone refarming


orthographic neighbour

orthographic neighbour (plural orthographic neighbours)

orthographic neighbours (plural)
orthographic neighbor (alternative)

For example, given the word 'cat', the words 'bat', 'fat', 'mat', 'cab', etc. are considered orthographic neighbors.

n.d. Wisconsin Medical College, "MCWord: An Orthographic Wordform Database" (Definitions)

To go even further, the issue concerning the influence of the emotional characteristics of orthographic neighbours has never been investigated directly to our knowledge.

2010 Pamela Gobin and Stéphanie Mathey, "The influence of emotional orthographic neighbourhood in visual word recognition," Current psychology letters [Online], Vol. 26, Issue 1, 2010 | 2010, Online since 07 October 2010, connection on 30 September 2016. URL : http://cpl.revues.org/4984

(orthography) A word that differs from another word of the same length by only one letter.


orthographic neighborhood

orthographic neighborhood (plural orthographic neighborhoods)

orthographic neighborhoods (plural)
orthographic neighbourhood (alternative)

In summary, the present experiments have shown that addition and deletion neighbors form part of a word’s orthographic neighborhood.

2009, Colin J. Davis, “Re(de)fining the Orthographic Neighborhood: The Role of Addition and Deletion Neighbors in Lexical Decision and Reading”, in Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 35(5): 1550-1570:

(orthography) The set of words that can be formed by changing one letter while maintaining letter positions.


misscan

en-verb

misscan (third-person singular simple present misscans, present participle misscanning, simple past and past participle misscanned)

misscans (present singular third-person)
misscanning (participle present)
misscanned (participle past)
misscanned (past)


dialytika

The oxia and varia are represented using the regular acute and grave accent characters, the dialytika with the regular diaeresis character, and the psili and dasia are represented using the regular combining-comma-above and combining-reversed-comma-above characters.

2003, Richard Gillam, “The Greek Alphabet”, in Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer’s Guide to the Encoding Standard, Boston, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, part II (Unicode in Depth: A Guided Tour of the Character Repertoire), chapter 7 (Scripts of Europe), page 240:

(orthography and typography) A diaeresis or trema in the Greek alphabet


NOMA

non-orthogonal multiple access
non-orthogonal multiple access#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of non-orthogonal multiple access.


line card

line cards (plural)
linecard (alternative)

(electronics, telecommunications) A modular electronic circuit designed to fit on a separate PCB and interface with a telecommunications access network.


multilinking

(telecommunications) A form of inverse multiplexing.


biolet

(poetry) A six-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABbaBA.


brachy

Mostly clippings of various scientific terms prefixed with brachy- (short), from the Ancient Greek βραχύ (brakhú).

(orthography, printing) A breve, as applied to Ancient Greek <˘>.


enjamb

enjamb (third-person singular simple present enjambs, present participle enjambing, simple past and past participle enjambed)

enjambs (present singular third-person)
enjambing (participle present)
enjambed (participle past)
enjambed (past)

(poetry) To carry a sentence over to the next line without a pause.


serpentine verse

en-noun

serpentine verse (countable and uncountable, plural serpentine verses)

(poetry) A form of verse constructed so as to begin and end with the same word.


COCOT

(telecommunications) Initialism of Customer-Owned Coin-Operated Telephone.


submessage

(telecommunications) A message that makes up part of another message.


punchdown

(telecommunications) A kind of electrical connection often used in telephony, having solid copper wires that are punched down into short open-ended slots which are a type of insulation-displacement connector. The slots contain blades which cut through the wire's insulation as it is punched down, and hold the wire in position while making electrical contact.


rhyme letter

(poetry) The repeated letter or letter sequence in alliteration.


bridgeline

bridgelines (plural)
bridge line (alternative)

(telecommunications) A kind of telephone line allowing numerous people to come together in a conference call.


caudation

From the Medieval Latin caudātus, from the Classical Latin cauda (“tail”).

To make it a bit easier to follow, each added letter is underlined, and insertions/hydrations/ caudations are parenthesized.

1978, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics - Volumes 11-12:

As with the voice, this physicality is natural and flexible, a background of four-beat lines, grouped into four five-line stanzas (a central section flanked by anacrusis and caudation) with occasional moves to five- or six- beat lines, and occasional catalexis ("unrealized"/"silent" beats), always at stanzaic ends.

1996, Language and Literature - Volume 21, page 102:

(writing) A section appended to the end of a word, line, or poem.

There is no adequate reporting system in use that can afford to treat words otherwise than as Hamlet's mother treated her heart, "cleave them in twain and fling away the basser half;" but in script the "baser half" in variably the final portion, and we get in the sentences of the curt style a jumble of inchoate nouns, paraplegic verbs and amputated adjectives, truncated of their tails and dependent each for its re-caudation on the accurate re-cordation (ahem !) of an equally deficient context.

1893, The National Stenographer - Volume 4, page 210:

But besides these examples there are two other ways of expanding the sonnet; by doubling and by caudation.

1956, Louis Lavater, The Sonnet in Australasia, a Survey and Selection:

In it, aided by diagrams and equations, you can learn of caudation and lateral expansion, doubling and interlacing.


transmux

en-verb

transmux (third-person singular simple present transmuxes, present participle transmuxing, simple past and past participle transmuxed)

transmuxes (present singular third-person)
transmuxing (participle present)
transmuxed (participle past)
transmuxed (past)

(telecommunications) Convert in realtime one telecommunications signal format to another, eg from SONET to DS3.


stoichedon

From Ancient Greek στοιχηδόν (stoikhēdón), from στοῖχος (stoîkhos, “row”) + -ηδον (-ēdon, “in the manner of”).

(historical, calligraphy) An epigraphical form in which the letters are arranged as rows and columns within a grid arrangement.


FTTH

(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the home.


softswitch

(telecommunications) A central device in a telephone network that connects phone lines using software in a computer.


Meliboean

From the name of a shepherd in Virgil's first eclogue.


MVNO

The MVNO will be a new phenomenon in most countries at the advent of UMTS. MVNO's will be marketing mobile services but will not own radio network assets nor licenses to use the radio spectrum.

2002, Tomi T. Ahonen, Joe Barrett, Services for UMTS: Creating Killer Applications in 3G, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 257:

mobile virtual network operator
mobile virtual network operator#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of mobile virtual network operator.


flying white

zh-l

飛白／飞白 (fēibái)

(Chinese calligraphy) A kind of calligraphic technique that involves applying a relatively dry brush at high speed to create dry, streaky strokes.


tree-and-branch

The headend cable modem handles the medium access control (MAC) protocol which is necessary for point-to-multipoint operation on the tree-and-branch network.

1998, D. W. Faulkner, A. L. Harmer, Broadband Access and Network Management: NOC '98:

The PSTN we have been describing utilizes a star configuration. But this is not the only configuration being applied in today's telecommunications world. The cable television (CATV) companies, for instance, use a tree-and-branch technology.

2004, Stephan S. Jones, The Basics of Telecommunications, page 11:

Figure 1.1 Tree-and-branch cable topology.

2004, Walter S. Ciciora, Michael Adams, Modern Cable Television Technology, page 15:

(telecommunications) Of cable television and similar networks: consisting of a main central cable with a separate cable branching off it to each subscriber.


star-sixty-nine (alternative)
star sixty-nine (alternative)
star 69 (alternative)

(US, Canada, telephony) The telephone number used for last-call return services.


en-verb

*69 (third-person singular simple present *69s, present participle *69ing, simple past and past participle *69ed)

(Canada, US, telephony, transitive, intransitive) To use the last-call return service


self-clocking

(telecommunications, electronics) Of a signal: able to be decoded without the need for a separate source of synchronization.


subscriber trunk dialling

This NER microwave radio telephone link will bring subscriber trunk dialling facilities to no fewer than 3,000 railway telephones at York, Newcastle, Darlington, Middlesbrough and Leeds and points as far north as Berwick-upon-Tweed.

1964 August, “The NER's microwave radio-telephone begins work”, in Modern Railways, page 130:

(telephony, British spelling) A system of automatic connection of trunk calls through dialling a phone number without operator assistance.


BUD

en-noun

BUD (countable and uncountable, plural BUDs)

I spend substantially less time fiddling with the 4dtv than I did with my HTS Premier 70, to say the least. As far as quality goes, it puts the SLD to shame. With the BUD my 53" picture is outstanding. With DTV/USSB it looked like crap.

1998 March 1, Guy R Tann, “Re: IPG ON 4DTV”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv (Usenet):

(informal, telecommunications) Initialism of big ugly dish.


MIMO

(electronics, telecommunications) Ellipsis of MIMO technology (“multiple-input multiple-output technology”).

MIMO-ODFM

MIMO orthogonal frequency division multiplexing


chosen one

Many of these fantasy novels feature a main character portrayed as a chosen one who will save everyone else.

Qui-Gon: He... is the Chosen One. He... will bring balance... Train him.

1999, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace:

(informal, authorship) A character in a narrative work who is predestined to save the world or accomplish some other grand and heroic deed; one who is predestined to become the one.


popcrete

Blend of pop art + concrete, coined by Augusto de Campos; see concrete poem.

(poetry) A genre of concrete poems assembled from images rather than words.


big ugly dish

television receive-only
television receive-only

(informal, telecommunications) A C-band satellite dish used by television receive-only (TVRO) systems, ranging from 4 to 16 feet in diameter.


minidish

I looked at it and there is almost nothing there for me that I do not already receive with a combination of my analog $200 receiver and my $99 DBS minidish. On the contrary, there are quite a few channels that have gone digital that I receive (for a fee) thru the minidish.

1998 March 1, PELOPAS KIATOY KORINTHIAS, “Re: IPG ON 4DTV”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv (Usenet):

(telecommunications) A small-sized satellite dish.


dishowner

Many U.S. dishowners have purchased (and received) the HDD-200 from Canadian retailers, as they received the first shipments. The HDD is now available from U.S. retailers, but the price is much higher than in Canada after currency exchange rates are applied.

2000 April 19, I Want My DTV!, “Re: Lastest^([sic]) info on HDD200 availabilty?”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv (Usenet):

(telecommunications) A person who owns a satellite dish.


pizza dish

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From its similarity in shape and size to a pizza.

True, many former C-banders have traded in their BUDs for pizza dishes. […] Most of those programmers are smart: they offer C-band *and* pizza dish programming. So, for every C-band customer lost to pizza, they gain a pizza client. Conversely, it is these pizza dish clients who are enabling programmers to continue to provide C-band programming.

2006 January 30, Maxodyne, “Re: 4DTV Future 2006”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv (Usenet):

(informal, telecommunications) A Kᵤ-band satellite dish used by direct broadcast satellite systems, ranging from 18 to 31 inches in diameter.


C-bander

True, many former C-banders have traded in their BUDs for pizza dishes. Also true, as the numbers of C-band equipment owners decline, prices may rise for C-band components. […] Residential C-banders have been, and will continue to ride on the back of commercial C-band technology.

(telecommunications) A person who uses a C-band television receive-only (TVRO) system for viewing television.


supertrunk

In the past, supertrunks were often constructed using coaxial cable.

1990, Stuart N. Brotman, Telephone Company and Cable Television Competition: Key Technical, Economic, Legal, and Policy Issues, page 71:

A client installed a supertrunk circuit in June 2000, […]

2003, M. S. Mastel, Telecom Audit, page 42:

The system also incorporates fiber supertrunks to reduce amplifier cascades, making the cost savings quite significant with this approach.

2013, David Goff, Fiber Optic Video Transmission: The Complete Guide:

(telecommunications) A low-loss, dual cable underground link that offers high speed and high bandwidth


supertrunking

(telecommunications) The use of a supertrunk.


iPadOS

Apple is rolling out the public beta of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 on Thursday. We have a full (and lengthy) preview guide on both operating systems here, and now we’re breaking down how to get the public beta on your iPhone or iPad.

2020 July 9, Jacob Krol, “Here’s how to get the iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 public beta”, in CNN:

(computing, mobile telephony) A mobile operating system (OS) created and developed by Apple Inc. used for its tablets.


eSIM

From e- + SIM (“subscriber identity module”).

Before using an eSIM, you must add it to your iPhone and configure it. Only one eSIM can be active at a time, but you can easily switch back and forth between eSIMs.

2021, Guy Hart-Davis, Teach Yourself Visually iPhone 12, 12 Pro, and 12 Pro Max, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 106:

(telecommunications) Initialism of embedded SIM (“virtual SIM that is integrated in the cellular device”).


low-noise block downconverter

low-noise block downconverter (plural low-noise block downconverters)

(communication) A device that amplifies a high frequency band of radio spectrum and converts it to a lower frequency used in satellite communications.


haikuist

(poetry) A person who writes haiku; a haiku poet.


haikuish

en-adj

haikuish (comparative more haikuish, superlative most haikuish)

more haikuish (comparative)
most haikuish (superlative)

(poetry) Resembling or characteristic of haiku; haikulike.


doha

(poetry) A form of self-contained rhyming couplet in Hindi poetry.


hephthemimeral

(poetry) Of or relating to a hephthemimer.


CTI

(electronics, telecommunications) Initialism of Computer Telephony Integration.


all-figure number

en-noun

all-figure number (plural all-figure numbers)

(UK, telecommunications, historical) A telephone number consisting purely of digits, introduced in the 1960s to replace numbers that began with an alphabetic code for the exchange.


mechanical splice

mechanical splice (plural mechanical splices)

(telecommunications) A junction of two or more optical fibres aligned and held in place by a small self-contained assembly.


ticking clock

(writing) A literary device in which the protagonist has a strict time limit, used to heighten tension.


RFB

RFB (countable and uncountable, plural RFBs)

(countable, computing, telecommunications) Abbreviation of remote frame buffer (protocol).


bit stuffing

(telecommunications) The insertion of non-information bits (binary digits) into a data stream.


diiambic

(poetry) In or relating to the diiambus meter.


FTTP

(telecommunications) Initialism of fibre to the premises.


FTTC

(telecommunications) Initialism of fibre to the cabinet.


mobile virtual network operator

mobile virtual network operator (plural mobile virtual network operators)

mobile virtual network operators (plural)

(telecommunications) A provider of mobile telecommunications who does not operate any physical network infrastructure, but relies on contracting with physical mobile telecom network infrastructure operators to provide mobility access.


RFFE

(electronics, telecommunications) Initialism of radio frequency front end.


pseudochannel

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We may regard the signals to the three speakers as coming from three pseudochannels, having certain signal-to-crosstalk ratios. The ratios for each pseudochannel are those between the voltage, produced by a signal in the pseudochannel, across the intended speaker; and the voltages, produced by that same signal, across the other two speakers.

1961, IRE Transactions on Audio - Volumes 9-10, page 75:

All data to and from primary memory in the IBM/360 model 30 are transmitted over 8-bit (plus parity) data paths including the pseudochannels.

1986, G. W. Gorsline, Computer Organization: Hardware/software, page 250:

For the purpose of over-the-cell routing, the channel intersection graph is extended by pseudochannels.

2000, George Zobrist, VLSI Design Environments, page 31:

A pseudochannel gain is introduced to convert cooperative transmissions to virtual direct transmissions,” researchers in South Korea report.

2012, Issues in Transportation Research and Application, page 300:

The agents.conf file is used to define agents for queues using the agents channel. This channel is similar in nature to the other channel types in Asterisk (local, SIP, IAX2, etc.), but it is more of a pseudochannel in that it is used to connect callers to agents who have logged into^([sic]) the system using other types of transport channel.

2013, Russell Bryant, Leif Madsen, Jim Van Meggelen, Asterisk: The Definitive Guide: The Future of Telephony Is Now, page 349:

ENEOS can inject various stress and monitoring signals into a pseudochannel (e.g., the embedded operating channel of the SONET, the extended super frame data channel of T1 links, and the management channel of proprietary networks).

2017, Wayne C. Bradley, Handbook of Data Center Management:

(electronics, communication) Any data channel that is introduced as a theoretical pathway that does not correspond to a physical channel.


LVDS

low voltage differential signaling#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of low voltage differential signaling.


Symbian

(computing, mobile telephony) A discontinued mobile operating system originally developed by the Symbian Ltd. consortium and later by Symbian Foundation, Nokia and Accenture.


NBMR

narrowband mobile radio
narrowband mobile radio#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of narrowband mobile radio.


metri causa

From Latin metrī causā (literally “for the sake of poetic metre”).


mobile data

Yet O2 says that while it has doubled the number of iPhone users, mobile data use is doubling every 4 months, equivalent to an eightfold growth every year.

2010 June 11, Charles Arthur, “Why file-sharing has killed 'unlimited' mobile data contracts”, in The Guardian:

The analysis of mobile data plans in 230 countries revealed that the UK ranked a “disappointing” 136th when the cost of one gigabyte (1GB) of mobile data was looked at.

2019 March 5, Rupert Jones, “UK among countries with priciest mobile data plans in Europe”, in The Guardian:

By turning off mobile data, you end up with a dumb or minimalist phone while out and about, but a fully internet-connected smartphone while at home, at work and in coffee shops and restaurants that provide Wi-Fi.

2019 March 23, Mike Elgan, “Why you should stop using mobile data”, in Computerworld:

(mobile telephony) Internet data transfer over a cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi.


Wabun code

en-noun

Wabun code (usually uncountable, plural Wabun codes)

From Japanese 和文 (wabun, “Japanese text”) + code.

compound

(telegraphy) A form of Morse code used to encode Japanese-language messages written in kana for transmission via telegram.


monocular O

(orthography) The Cyrillic letter Ꙩ (capital) or ꙩ (lowercase).


double monocular O

en-noun

double monocular O (plural double monocular Os)

From being the doubled form of the monocular O (Ꙩ/ꙩ) letter.

(orthography) The Cyrillic letter Ꙭ (capital) or ꙭ (lowercase).


binocular O

(orthography) The Cyrillic letter Ꙫ (capital) or ꙫ (lowercase).


IPL

IPL (countable and uncountable, plural IPLs)

international private line
w:international private line

(telecommunications) Initialism of international private line.


Based on the telephone number used in North America to obtain non-emergency governmental services.

(Canada, US, telephony) The telephonic service for accessing some government services, depending on the jurisdiction.


(Canada, US, telephony) Alternative form of 811.


Based on the telephone number used in North America to obtain local governmental services.

(Canada, US, telephony) The telephonic service for accessing some local government services, depending on the jurisdiction.


bind rune

We have also 2 uncommon Bind-runes here, the OL in SOL and the ER in HUILER.

1867, George Stephens, The Old-northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, volume I, London: John Russell Smith, page 356:

(writing) A type of ligature formed by two or more runes; most commonly with two or three runes sharing one or more common vertical strokes, or with several runes arranged vertically with their vertical strokes joined end-to-end.


preantepenultima

[…] receiving the principal accent on the penultima, the word necessarily takes the secondary accent on the preantepenultima.

1825, Samuel Oliver, A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language, page 337:

(poetry) The last syllable but three (of a word or other utterance); the fourth-to-last syllable.


ypogegrammeni

Borrowed from Greek υπογεγραμμένη (ypogegramméni), from Ancient Greek ὑπογεγραμμένη (hupogegramménē).

bor+

υπογεγραμμένη

der

ὑπογεγραμμένη

(orthography) The Greek iota subscript, ͺ or ͅ.


LNR

(telecommunications) Initialism of last number redial.


voice over broadband

(Internet, telephony) A transmission technique that enables a user to make and receive telephone calls over a broadband connection.


time-hopping

(telecommunications) A communications signal technique in which the transmission time is varied according to a pseudorandom sequence, useful in antijamming, etc.


i'jam

i'jam (plural)
ijam (alternative)
i'jām (alternative)

(orthography) Dots used in modern Arabic script to distinguish between consonants with identical backbone (rasm) shapes.


SPN

service provider name
service provider name#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of service provider name.


I before E, except after C

Formed because of the rhyme between the names of the letters E and C, /iː/ and /siː/. The "rule" was invented in the 19th century.

i before e, except after c (alternative)

(orthography, mnemonic) In English words that contain the letters I and E together, the I tends to come before the E (ie), except in cases when the two are preceded by the letter C, in which case the E comes before the I (cei).


security distance

en-noun

security distance (plural security distances)

(telecommunications) The distance from an operating point to the boundary of the security region.


ISIM

w:IP Multimedia Services Identity Module

(telecommunications) Initialism of IP Multimedia Services Identity Module.


BORSCHT

plain old telephone service
plain old telephone service

(telecommunications) Acronym of battery feed, overvoltage protection, ringing, signalling, coding, hybrid, test (“the set of functions performed by a subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC) in the line card of a telecommunication system providing plain old telephone service”).


truck roll

...an engineer is deployed to their location. These engineer visits, also known as ‘truck rolls’ (TR), in the telecom industry are an expensive investment for the company.

2021, “Leading Australian Telecom Service Provider Saves Huge Costs by Reducing Technician Truck Rolls”, in Wipro:

(countable, telecommunications) The dispatching of service personnel to a client's location (as opposed to remotely addressing an issue)


From 1, used to dial special numbers and 976, a reserved local exchange code.

976-5555 is a 1-976 number that you have to pay for.

(Canada, US, telephony) Of telephone numbers dialed in North America, having an additional charge assessed to the caller, part of which is returned to the owner of the number.


SerDes

From serializer/deserializer; compare modem and codec.

(telecommunications) A pair of functional blocks used in high-speed communications to compensate for limited input/output, converting data between serial data and parallel interfaces in each direction.


Internet service provider

Internet service provider (plural Internet service providers)

In view of this, it is clear why internet service providers (ISPs) are inclined to play a backbench role when it comes to combating file sharing.

2012, S. Allegrezza, A. Dubrocard, Internet Econometrics, →ISBN:

A part of the nervousness at Chelsea involves whether any more sponsors will follow the telecommunications and internet service provider Three in withdrawing support, at least temporarily.

2022 March 11, David Hytner, “Chelsea are in crisis but there is no will to leave club on their knees”, in The Guardian:

(Internet, telecommunications) A company that provides Internet access.


antistrophize

en-verb

antistrophize (third-person singular simple present antistrophizes, present participle antistrophizing, simple past and past participle antistrophized)

antistrophizes (present singular third-person)
antistrophizing (participle present)
antistrophized (participle past)
antistrophized (past)

(transitive, poetry) To turn into antistrophe.


automanual

(historical, telephony) Being or relating to a system of telephony that combines automatic and manual features, such that the caller initially communicates with an operator who, after setting up the desired number on a keyboard, has no further interaction with the call.


vyaz

(calligraphy) A traditional lettering style for Cyrillic and Slavosphere Latin, slender, ornate and interweaving.


middle mile

(telecommunications) The segment of a telecommunications network linking an operator's core network to the local network plant.


IOT

(business, telecommunications) Initialism of interoperator tariff.


camera roll

Named after the traditional roll of film.

(computing, mobile telephony) The collection of images and videos taken on a smartphone.


lettermark

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(marketing, communication, typography) A text-only logo consisting of the initials of a brand name or business.


slant range

en-noun

slant range (usually uncountable, plural slant ranges)

From it being the distance measured along the usually-slanted line connecting two points in space, rather than purely the horizontal or vertical distance between the two.

(radio, communication) The distance from one point to another in three-dimensional space.


TL;DL

TL (canonical)
DL (canonical)
tl;dl (alternative)

(online communication) Initialism of too long; didn’t listen, signaling that an audio message (such as a podcast or voicemail) lacked communicative efficacy because of its length.


meet-me room

(Internet, telecommunications) A place within a co-location centre where telecommunications companies can physically connect to one another and exchange data without incurring local loop fees.


constructed script

constructed script (plural constructed scripts)

(writing, linguistics) A new writing system specifically created by an individual or group, rather than having evolved as part of a language or culture as a natural script.


cone of silence

cone of silence (plural cones of silence)

verbal communication
verbal communication

(communication) An order or directive which prohibits verbal communication about a particular subject.


zero prefix

(UK, telephony) The digit 0 that begins all telephone numbers in the United Kingdom, which is substituted for the country code in the event of international calls.


out-of-band signaling

(networking, telecommunications) A type of transmission technology in which signaling is separate from the data being transmitted, using one or more channels for transmitting data or voice information and one out-of-band channel for performing signaling functions.


FTTD

(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the desk/desktop.

(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the door.


FTTB

(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the building.


FTTO

(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the office.


FTTT

(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the terminal.

(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the tower.


FTTL

(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the loop.


FTTS

(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the street.

(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the subscriber.


FTTR

(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the radio.

(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the router.


FTTX

(telecommunications) Initialism of fiber to the x, various configurations for the deployment of optical fiber.


spin machine

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(mass media, communication) A group or organization of individuals collaborating in order to present the news or information in a favorable or desired light.


static IP address

static IP address (plural static IP addresses)

internet service provider
internet service provider

(telecommunications) An IP address which is permanent and unchangeable when each time a user connects to their internet service provider.


bookwriting

Our bookwriting services embed the true essence of our words in the right manner.

(Can we date this quote?), “Book Writing Services - Professional Book Writers For hire”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(writing) The process of writing a book.


imaginism

/ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪ(ˌ)nɪzəm/

From Russian имажини́зм (imažinízm), from Latin imāgō (“image, representation”).

(poetry) A Russian avant-garde poetic movement, founded in 1918, whose members created poetry based on sequences of arresting and uncommon images.


audimeter

(television, telecommunications) Electronic device that, installed in a sample of households, automatically records the television channel and consumption of the family or its individual members.


PECS

Sandra had two boys in the autism class. Arriving to the school, one of her sons was non-verbal; he had been trained to communicate using the picture exchange communication system (PECS). […] Her son lost his PECS skills. She was also upset to learn that her son had been placed in a personalised sensory space without her permission.

2022 September 12, Jennifer Morgan, “An autism class opens. What happens then?”, in Irish Examiner:

picture exchange communication system#English

(communication) Initialism of picture exchange communication system.


xPON

(telecommunications) A combination of EPON and GPON.


Discord

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See discord. Jason Citron, developer: “We picked the name because […] it just sounds cool and has to do with talking. […] [It] is easy to say, spell, remember, […] available for ™, and has a website you can get. […] we fell in love with the name”.

(Internet, telecommunications, social media) An instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media.


paragraph break

paragraph break (plural paragraph breaks)

(writing systems, orthography) A place within written content representing a semantic departure where one paragraph ends and another begins; usually represented visually with at least a line break and often also with additional vertical spacing or a subsequent indent.


TSPS

Traffic Service Position System
w:Traffic Service Position System

(telephony) Abbreviation of Traffic Service Position System.


Voice over NR

Short for Voice over New Radio, from 5G New Radio, fifth-generation radio access technology. Compare VoIP, from Voice over Internet Protocol.

Though voice services will be made available initially via Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service on 4G network, eventually voice services in 5G, referred to as Voice over NR (VoNR), is expected to be next revenue stream for the operator.

2019, Kashmira Kapoor, Dandra Prasad Basavaraj, Shrinath Ramamoorthy, Tushar Vrind, “Novel method for increased power conservation in voice over nr (vonr) devices”, in EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cloud Systems, volume 5, page e7:

Voice over NR is voice over IP incorporating the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) infrastructure previously introduced in LTE.

2021 July 14, “Why voice over 5G relies heavily on LTE”, in 5G Technology World:

Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and Voice over NR (VoNR), are two similar technologies that have been widely deployed by operators to provide a better calling experience in LTE and 5G networks, respectively.

2023 January 6, Zishuai Cheng, Mihai Ordean, Flavio D. Garcia, Baojiang Cui, Dominik Rys, “Watching your call: Breaking VoLTE Privacy in LTE/5G Networks”, in arXiv:

(Internet, mobile telephony) A 5G high-speed wireless communication standard for mobile phones and data terminals, including Internet of things (IoT) devices and wearables.


USSD

w:Unstructured Supplementary Service Data

(telecommunications) Initialism of Unstructured Supplementary Service Data.


dejitterize

en-verb

dejitterize (third-person singular simple present dejitterizes, present participle dejitterizing, simple past and past participle dejitterized)

dejitterizes (present singular third-person)
dejitterizing (participle present)
dejitterized (participle past)
dejitterized (past)
dejitterise (alternative)


ASN

autonomous system number
autonomous system number#English

(telecommunications networking, Internet) Initialism of autonomous system number.


Monk's Tale stanza

en-noun

Monk's Tale stanza (plural Monk's Tale stanzas)

As used in The Monk's Tale, one of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

(poetry) An eight-line stanza with the rhyme scheme ABABBCBC.


heptasyllable

(poetry) line of verse with seven syllables


enneasyllable

(poetry) line of verse with nine syllables