Bit error rate

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bit error rate
(Telecommunications) ratio of bits received with errors to the total number of bits transmitted (expressed as a fraction or percent), BER


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Bit error ratio
In telecommunication, an error ratio is the ratio of the number of bitselementscharacters, or blocks incorrectly received to the total number of bits, elements, characters, or blocks sent during a specified time interval.The most commonly encountered ratio is the bit error ratio (BER) - also sometimes referred to as bit error rate.Examples of bit error ratio are (a) transmission BER, i.e., the number of erroneous bits received divided by the total number of bits transmitted; and (b) information BER, i.e., the number of erroneous decoded (corrected) bits divided by the total number of decoded (corrected) bits.
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bit error rate
Deprecated term. See bit error ratio.

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Bit Error Rate
<datadigitalcommunications> (BER) The fraction of a message or block of data that is wrong.
(2003-03-25)


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