asymmetric digital subscriber line

asymmetric digital subscriber line (plural asymmetric digital subscriber lines)

asymmetric digital subscriber lines (plural)
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (alternative)

(telecommunications) A communications system characterised by moderately high speeds, different in each direction.


rgr

(radio telecommunications) Abbreviation of roger.


BPV

en-noun

BPV (countable and uncountable, plural BPVs)

bipolar violation
bipolar violation#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of bipolar violation.


DTLS

Datagram Transport Layer Security
w:Datagram Transport Layer Security

(computing, telecommunications) Initialism of Datagram Transport Layer Security.


wilamowitzianus

Named after the German classicist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff.

(poetry, Ancient Rome) a meter consisting of two choriambs, used in Attic tragedy and in Roman comedy, used by Plautus and Terence.

Metres of Roman comedy#Wilamowitzianus
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff


phone tree

(telecommunications) An interactive hierarchical menu of choices on an automated telephone system, navigated by the caller typically by entering or speaking digits, etc.

(telecommunications) Synonym of call tree.


FMNP

(telecommunications) Initialism of full mobile number portability.


HES

house exchange system
house exchange system#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of house exchange system.


watch receiver

(telecommunications, historical) A small telephone receiver resembling a pocket watch.


French telephone

French telephone (plural French telephones)

In the early 20th century, telephones with handsets were not common in the United States. Many American soldiers encountered them in France during World War I.

An act prohibiting telephone corporations of this Commonwealth from imposing, for the use of hand telephones commonly called 'French telephones,' a charge in excess of fifteen cents per month […]

1933, Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate, Journal (part 1, page 281)

Rotary dials also were used on the so-called "French" telephones introduced in Europe at first and then the United States in the late 1920s.

1999, Rudi Voti, The Facts On File Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Society, page 1012:

(US, telephony, dated) A telephone with a handset.


day letter

(telegraphy, historical) A telegram sent during the day for slightly deferred delivery on the same day, cheaper than a fast telegram, typically with a minimum charge for 50 words or less.


fast telegram

(telegraphy, historical) A telegram sent during either the day or night at a full rate for immediate delivery, typically with a minimum charge for 10 words or less.


blackout poem

(literature, poetry) A poem created from another text by selectively covering up words.


hook flash

(telecommunications) A signal that briefly disconnects the local loop circuit by means of the hookswitch or a dedicated button, used to control functions on the public telephone exchange.


iota adscript

(Greek orthography) The iota subscript when written beside the affected letter rather than underneath it.


silver box

(telephony) A modified DTMF box that adds four additional keys, creating a four-column-by-four-key grid.

gray-box testing
silver box
white box (software engineering)


PAX

(telephony) Initialism of private automatic exchange.


Ader receiver

Named after the French inventor Clément Ader.

(telephony, historical) A kind of telephone receiver incorporating a magnetized metal ring.


NANP

North American Numbering Plan
w:North American Numbering Plan

(telecommunications) Initialism of North American Numbering Plan.


call forwarding

(telephony) A telephony feature which redirects a telephone call to another destination.


forward echo

forward echo (countable and uncountable, plural forward echoes)

(telecommunications) The propagation of a signal reflection in the same direction as the original signal and consisting of energy reflected back by one discontinuity and then forward again by another discontinuity.


radar cross section

radar cross section (plural radar cross sections)

(telecommunications, aviation) A measure of the detectability of an object by radar.


LATA

(telecommunications) Acronym of local access and transport area.


drott-kvaett

(poetry) A poetic meter characterized by strict patterns of stave-rhyme and internal rhyme.


NSAPI

(telecommunications) Initialism of network service access point identifier.


Skeltonics

(poetry) The irregular poetic meter used by John Skelton (c.1460–1529), English poet.


mixnet

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

One type of mix network accepts as input a collection of ciphertexts, and outputs the corresponding plaintexts in a randomly permuted order. The main privacy property desired of such a mixnet is that the permutation matching inputs to outputs should be known only to the mixnet, and no one else. In particular, an adversary should be unable to guess which input ciphertext corresponds to an output plaintext any more effectively than by guessing at random.

2004, Philippe Golle, Markus Jakobsson, Ari Juels, Paul Syverson, “Universal Re-encryption for Mixnets”, in Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2004 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2964), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 163:

Each server in the mixnet removes only one layer of encryption, so that only the last server knows a message's ultimate destination.

2016 July 11, Larry Hardesty, Phys.org, archived from the original on 2023-01-28:

This issue of privacy in blockchain isn't new, and many ideas have been proposed, such as keeping the data off-chain and using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to prove we did the right computation (e.g., Aleo and Aztec) or using mixnets to anonymize transactions (e.g., Tornado Cash).

2023 May 26, Rand Hindi, “How Homomorphic Encryption Can Make Blockchain Private”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-12:

(communication, technology) A server or group of servers facilitating private communication between individuals by randomly scrambling the order that messages are received, so that an adversary is unable to determine the source or destination of any message.


netco

(telecommunications, business) The part of a telco that operates the network infrastructure.


servco

(telecommunications, business) The part of a telco that provides customer service.


ring time

(telecommunications, telephony) The duration of time from the moment that the respondent's telephone begins ringing until the moment it is answered.


Hipponactean

We dismiss, at the outset, as unnecessary for our purpose, the long and learned-looking array of spondees, pyrrhics, trochees, dactyls, tribrachs and amphimacers with the endless but never nameless array of metres—dimeters, trimeters, Adonics, ithyphallics, Hipponacteans, and the rest; […]

1888, James Wood Davidson, The Poetry of the Future, New York, N.Y.: John B. Alden, page 30:

(poetry) A Hipponactean verse; (especially) a hypercatalectic form of Glyconian verse.


talk time

talk time (countable and uncountable, plural talk times)

talk times (plural)
talktime (alternative)

(mobile telephony) The length of time a person can speak on a mobile phone before having to recharge the battery.

(mobile telephony) A prepaid amount of time on the bill agreement of a mobile phone.


time lady

the time lady (canonical)
Time Lady (alternative)

(radio, telephony) A female voice that is heard on a speaking clock that a person could dial to find out the current time, down to the second, before the age of the Internet and other options for finding out the time existed.


time difference of arrival

(geodesy, telecommunications) A technique used to determine the difference in arrival times of a signal at multiple receivers.


vowel rhyme

vowel rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural vowel rhymes)


consonant rhyme

consonant rhyme (countable and uncountable, plural consonant rhymes)

(prosody, poetry) Synonym of consonance.


attack time

attack time (countable and uncountable, plural attack times)

(telecommunications) The time between the instant that a signal at the input of a device or circuit exceeds the activation threshold of the device or circuit and the instant that the device or circuit reacts in a specified manner, or to a specified degree, to the input.


average handle time

(business, telephony) A customer service metric that measures the average length of a customer's call to a call center.


acquisition time

acquisition time (countable and uncountable, plural acquisition times)

The speed-based acquisition algorithm controls the location acquisition time interval in such a way that when a user is moving faster than before, the location acquistion time interval is shortened and when the speed gets slower the location acquistion interval is increased appropriately.

2009, So-Young Kang, Jin-Woo Song, Kwang-Jo Lee, Ju-Hee Lee, Ji-Hoon Kim, Sung-Bong Yang, “Improved Location Acquisition Algorithms for the Location-Based Alert Service”, in James (Jong Hyuk) Park, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Mohammed Atiquzzaman, editor, Advances in Information Security and Assurance, page 465:

(telecommunications) The amount of time required for a GPS receiver to acquire a satellite signal in order to determine the initial position.


time-assignment speech interpolation

time-assignment speech interpolation (uncountable)

(telecommunications) An analog technique used on certain long transmission links to increase voice transmission capacity.


time spent listening

(US, radio, communication) The amount of time that an average listener that is surveyed spends listening to each radio station at one time, before changing the station or turning it off.

(US, radio, communication) An estimate of the duration of time that the average listener is exposed to a particular station for a specific time period.


butt set

(telecommunications) Synonym of buttinsky.


SHINE

(telecommunications) Acronym of single high-impulse noise event.


REIN

(telecommunications) Acronym of repetitive electrical impulse noise.


SDU

SDU (countable and uncountable, plural SDUs)

satellite data unit
w:satellite data unit

(telecommunications) Initialism of satellite data unit.

(telecommunications) Initialism of service data unit.


Skeltonic

(poetry) Employing or relating to Skeltonics.


choseong

Borrowed from Korean 초성 (choseong, “initial sound”).

bor+

So, Choseong means the first/initial sound. Always located at the beginning of a syllable.

2024 January 29, Richard Lee, Mastering 399 syllables, Hangeul keeper, page 5:

(orthography) (in Korean or the hangul script) a consonant, consonant cluster, or silence in the syllable onset


jungseong

Borrowed from Korean 중성 (jungseong, “medial sound”).

[…] and one vowel called the medial (jungseong; syllable nucleus).

2018 March 7, Taebum Kim, Korean-English Dictionary 17000: 17,000 Words for Learning Korean, Core Voca, page 2:

(orthography) (in Korean or the hangul script) a vowel or diphthong in the syllable nucleus


jongseong

Borrowed from Korean 종성 (jongseong, “final sound”).

A Korean syllable is divided into three parts: choseong (initial consonant), jungseong (peak vowel), and jongseong (final consonant).

2014 June 20, Korean Culture and Information Service (South Korea), Guide to Korean Culture: Korea's cultural heritage, 길잡이미디어, →ISBN, page 72:

(orthography) (in Korean or the hangul script) a consonant or consonant cluster in the syllable coda


Free caller ID blocking. […] The new feature will enable customers to hide their identification from […] caller ID by punching "*67" on push-button phones or dialing "1167" on rotary phones.

1990 September 17, “Briefs”, in Network World:

Callers can block their Caller ID information on a per-call basis by dialling *67 before a call is made.

2010, House of Representatives, Truth in Caller ID Act of 2010:

A *67 blocked call is reported to the receiving party's caller ID as a "private call".

2013, Steven Kerry Brown, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating, 3 edition:

(Canada, US, telephony) The telephone number used to block caller ID.


en-verb

*67 (third-person singular simple present *67s, present participle *67ing, simple past and past participle *67ed)

I seem to recall that a Rochecter Tel sub called the 800-stopper ANI #, and got readback, then "*67"ed, and called again - this time NOT getting one.

1993 September 20, David Lesher, “Caller ID/ANI Thread”, in comp.society.privacy (Usenet):

[The NSA has] this dude who […] writes down all the numbers that pop up on the caller-id display. Don't forget to *67!!!

1994 March, Hackle-b3rry phin, “Keeping a low profile on UNIX systems”, in Brotherhood of Warez, volume 3:

[H]ow about *67ing him? That's what [she] does when she likes someone.

2010, Robin Palmer, Yours Truly, Lucy B. Parker:

(Canada, US, telephony) To use the telephone number prefix to block caller ID.


time diversity

en-noun

time diversity (countable and uncountable, plural time diversities)

(radio, telecommunications) The process of sending the same signal or components of a signal through a communication channel where the same signal is received at different times, used in order to compare, recover, or add to the overall quality of the received signal.


time and frequency transfer

International Atomic Time
International Atomic Time

(telecommunications) A scheme where multiple sites share a precise reference time or frequency, commonly used for creating and distributing standard time scales such as International Atomic Time.


range extender

(telecommunications) A device which extends a signal beyond its normal limit.


time of origin

time of origin (countable and uncountable, plural times of origin)

(telecommunications, networking) The point in time in which a message is released for transmission.


time division

time division (countable and uncountable, plural time divisions)

time divisions (plural)
time-division (alternative)

(telecommunications) A time slot allocated to one of multiple users when a common channel (multipoint or broadcast) is shared.


frame-alignment recovery time

frame-alignment recovery time (uncountable)

(electronics, telecommunications) The amount of time that elapses between a valid frame alignment signal that is available at the receiving terminal equipment and the moment that frame alignment is established.


WNP

(telecommunications) Initialism of wireless number portability.


WLNP

(telecommunications) Initialism of wireless local number portability.


hold time

hold time (countable and uncountable, plural hold times)

(telephony) The amount of time spent in a phone queue on hold.


transmission time

transmission time (countable and uncountable, plural transmission times)

(networking, telecommunications) The amount of time from the beginning until the end of a message transmission.


standby time

standby time (countable and uncountable, plural standby times)

(electronics, telephony, technology) The maximum amount of time in which a mobile phone can be continuously turned on and ready to communicate.


primary time standard

primary time standard (countable and uncountable, plural primary time standards)

(time, telecommunications) A time standard that does not require calibration against another time standard.


offset time

offset time (countable and uncountable, plural offset times)

(telecommunications) In optical burst switching, the amount of time between the burst header and the control packet.


push time

push time (countable and uncountable, plural push times)

(networking, telecommunications) The time when a remote server sends an unsolicited update.


phonic wheel

(historical, telegraphy) A synchronous motor driven by a tuning fork that used an electromagnet to rotate the cogwheel of the motor by one tooth for each vibration.


nightfulness

He feels such delightfulness, stay out all-nightfulness, may I get tightfulness, / Which none can explain.

1894 April 7, chapter XIX, in A New England Woman, The Socrates Publishing Company, page 133:

They had thought themselves / in Hawaii when suddenly the pines, / trembling with nightfulness, / shook them out of their sibyllance.

1967 [1957], Frank O'Hara, “Romanze, or The Musical Students”, in Meditations in an Emergency, 2nd edition, Grove Press, page 20:

“And as this nightfulness appears to thin with distance, it should be entirely possible to pinpoint its epicenter? I find myself very much inclined to agree, Picnic. […]”

2016 September 7, Sarah Porter, Vassa in the Night, Tom Doherty Associates, page 163:

Tonight the crescent moon is on its back / facing the darkness and I know that feeling / of nightfulness and the half ring it leaves / like part of a cupmark on a walnut table […]

2017, Julia McCarthy, “A Stab in the Dark”, in All the Names Between, Brick Books, page 5:

(rare, chiefly poetry) The state of being nightful.


push notification

push notification (plural push notifications)

(Internet, mobile telephony) The delivery of information from a software application to a computing device without a specific request from the client.


verbivocovisual

Coined by James Joyce in the experimental novel Finnegans Wake. Perhaps verbi- (from "verbiage"?) + Latin vocō ("to name") + visual, possibly influenced by Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry. Now frequently associated with Concrete poetry following its use by Augusto de Campos and other concrete poets in the mid-to-late 1950s.

In the view of the formalists, Italian futurism epitomized all that poetics should work against. This assessment, directed specifically at Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who visited Saint Petersburg and Moscow in February 1914, indicates the formalists' unwillingness to acknowledge the many poetic and artistic innovations shared by the Russian and Italian futurists. In the realm of Russian futurist book art and its Italian futurist analogue—the parole-in-libertà (words-in-freedom)—poetic language was transformed by the elimination of grammar and syntax, the experimentation with new arrangements of words and letters on the page, and the highlighting of language for its sonic expressivity. Both Russian futurist book art and the parole-in-libertà incorporated verbal, visual, and sonic elements into their art forms, although the Russians ventured much further into the verbivocovisual than did the Italians.

2016, Nancy Perloff, Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art, The Getty Research Institute, →ISBN, page 68:

Alicia Genovese details very well the definition of avant-garde Brazilian concretist poetry of the 1960s. She did this through a Joycean neologism by which poetry was verbivocovisual in a synthesis of materials with which the poem operates: the verb (the uses of language), the sound (including the rhythm), and the space (the visual). [...] The play with language(s), the mixing of registers and working with space (large blank spaces between words), the cutting off of words like dance steps, and the androgynous enunciation "rió [...]" from Poem 39, are there in order to tense (crispar) the expectations, those of the representation and reception, and to tell us that there are neither final nor definitive statements/utterances.

2016, Martins, Laura M, “Per-verse Latin American Women Poets”, in Rodríguez, Ileana, Szurmuk, Mónica, editors, The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 518:

We saw that the verbal, visual and hearing aspects together help to give a more genuine and relevant significance to the popular symbolism. In some frames, if we focus only on the verbal elements and constructions, we are not able to identify any carnivalization, for example. But by observing the three dimensions together as one, verbivocovisually, we see that the background sound gives dialogues a more grotesque or carnivalesque sense. Lastly, we conclude that popular symbolisms are embedded into the scene through the verbivocovisual language. These symbols have as their main goal to create a distance, a break from the real world within the narrative. At the same time, the plot reminds us a great deal of the real world, both anchored in the fight for power.

2023, Pais, Ana Carolina, “The Symbology of Popular Culture in Game of Thrones: Carnivalization and Tyrion's Wedding Party”, in Álvarez-Ossorio, Alfonso, Lozano, Fernando, Soldevila, Rosario Moreno, Rosillo-López, Cristina, editors, Game of Thrones - A View from the Humanities, Vol. 1: Time, Space and Culture, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 239:

(poetry) Composed of semantic (or linguistic), visual, and sonic elements in synthesis.

Augusto de Campos
Concrete poetry
Ezra Pound's Three Kinds of Poetry
Finnegans Wake
James Joyce
experimental novel


-pody

From Ancient Greek -ποδία (-podía) from πούς (poús, “foot”).

(poetry) A unit or line consisting of a specified number of metrical feet


on silent

(electronics, mobile telephony) A setting on an electronic device that prevents it from producing noise when it receives a call or a message, such as an alert or a notification.


(telecommunications) Initialism of direct-to-mobile (direct-to-smartphone); a technology, or a link using one of the technologies.


(telecommunications) Initialism of direct-to-mobile (direct-to-smartphone); pertaining to the technology or communications.


AtoN

aid to navigation
aid to navigation#English

(nautical, communication) Acronym of aid to navigation.


CDAA

circularly disposed antenna array#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of circularly disposed antenna array.


CDDA

circularly disposed dipole array#English

(telecommunications) Initialism of circularly disposed dipole array.


far field

(telecommunications) The region sufficiently distant from a radio antenna for angular field distribution to be independent of distance.


telecommunications tower

telecommunications tower (plural telecommunications towers)

(telecommunications) A structure intended to support antennas, waveguide and associated equipment for the transmission of signals for wireless communication.


locus amoenus

Learned borrowing from Latin locus amoenus (“pleasant place”).

lbor

(literature, poetry) A literary motif of an idealised place of safety or comfort, typically comprising a meadow, trees (for shade) and water; sometimes evoking connotations of Eden or Elysium.


communications satellite

en-noun

communications satellite (plural communications satellites)

(space flight, telephony) An artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals by means of a transponder.


BTPAN

(communication, computing) Abbreviation of Bluetooth Personal Area Network.


end-node

(networking, telecommunications) A device that connects to a network and is the endpoint for data communication.


exit node

(networking, telecommunications) A server that allows traffic to leave a secure network and enter the public internet.


hardware node

(networking, telecommunications) A physical device that is connected to a network and is able to send, receive, or forward information.


in-band signaling

in-band signaling (countable and uncountable, plural in-band signalings)

in-band signalings (plural)
in-band signalling (alternative)

(telecommunications) The sending of control information within the same band or channel used for data such as voice or video.

signalisation intrabande

sending control flow information in the same channel as data


outband

(telecommunications) Synonym of out-of-band.


online service provider

online service provider (plural online service providers)

(Internet, telecommunications) Any company, organization, or group that provides services over the Internet, including web hosting, Internet access, social media platforms, and cloud storage.


illocutionarity

(communication, linguistics) The speaker's intended meaning or purpose behind an utterance, distinct from the actual words spoken or the effect on the listener.


illocutionary act

illocutionary act (usually uncountable, plural illocutionary acts)

(communication, linguistics) The communicative action performed by a speaker when making an utterance, where the speaker's intention behind the utterance is crucial to its meaning.


(mobile telephony, retronym) Referring to standards before 3G.


empty phrase

(communication) An expression that is superficial, lacks depth, or conveys no real meaning, often used to fill space or to avoid direct communication.


anti-Pindaric

Here the image of burning Aetna is used to characterize the anti-Pindaric.

2003, John T. Hamilton, Soliciting Darkness - Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition, page 209:

(poetry) Of a measure, where the strophe of one system answers to the strophe of another.


Pindaric ode

(poetry) A formal type of lyric poetry originating in Ancient Greece, consisting of a strophe, an antistrophe, and an epode.


mesode

From Ancient Greek μεσῳδός (mesōidós); see meso-, ode.

(poetry) Part of a lyric or choral ode which occurs between the strophe and antistrophe.


streaming data

(networking, telecommunications) Data that is continuously generated by different sources and consumed in real-time.


streaming encoder

streaming encoder (plural streaming encoders)

(networking, telecommunications) A tool that converts raw video and audio signals into a digital format suitable for transmission over the Internet.


DCIM

DCIM (countable and uncountable, plural DCIMs)

(electronics, computing, telecommunications) Abbreviation of digital camera image(s).


cross-pol

(telecommunications, military) Clipping of cross-polarization.