Telecommunication Standard Terms
ITS-Institute for Telecommunication Sciences
This glossary provides standard definitions for the fields subsumed by the umbrella discipline of telecommunications. The terms and definitions are drawn from authoritative non-Government sources such as the International Telecommunication Union, the International Organization for Standardization, the Telecommunications Industry Association, and the American National Standards Institute, as well as from numerous authoritative U.S. Government publications.
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aircraft emergency frequency
aircraft station
airdrome control station
airport control station
AIS
alarm center
alarm indicator
alarm sensor
ALE
algorithmic language
aligned bundle
all glass fiber
all silica fiber
all trunks busy (ATB)
Allan variance
allcall
allocation (of a frequency band)
allotment (of a radio frequency or radio frequency channel)
alpha profile
alphabet
alphabet translation
alphabet transliteration
alphabetic character set
alphabetic code
aircraft station
airdrome control station
airport control station
AIS
alarm center
alarm indicator
alarm sensor
ALE
algorithmic language
aligned bundle
all glass fiber
all silica fiber
all trunks busy (ATB)
Allan variance
allcall
allocation (of a frequency band)
allotment (of a radio frequency or radio frequency channel)
alpha profile
alphabet
alphabet translation
alphabet transliteration
alphabetic character set
alphabetic code
alphabetic string
alphabetic word
alphanumeric
alphanumeric character set
alphanumeric code
alphanumeric data
altazimuth mount
alternate mark inversion (AMI) signal
alternate party
alternate routing
altitude of the apogee or of the perigee
ALU
AM
AMA
amateur satellite service
amateur service
amateur station
ambient noise level
ambient temperature
AME
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
AMI
AMI violation
alphabetic word
alphanumeric
alphanumeric character set
alphanumeric code
alphanumeric data
altazimuth mount
alternate mark inversion (AMI) signal
alternate party
alternate routing
altitude of the apogee or of the perigee
ALU
AM
AMA
amateur satellite service
amateur service
amateur station
ambient noise level
ambient temperature
AME
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
AMI
AMI violation
amplitude distortion
amplitude equalizer
amplitude hit
amplitude intensity modulation (AIM)
amplitude keying
amplitude modulation (AM)
amplitude modulation equivalent (AME)
amplitude vs. frequency distortion
AMPS
AMTS
analog computer
analog data
analog decoding
analog encoding
analog facsimile equipment
analog signal
analog switch
analog to digital (A D) coder
analog to digital (A D) encoder
analog to digital converter (ADC)
analog transmission
angle modulation
angle of deviation
angle of incidence
amplitude equalizer
amplitude hit
amplitude intensity modulation (AIM)
amplitude keying
amplitude modulation (AM)
amplitude modulation equivalent (AME)
amplitude vs. frequency distortion
AMPS
AMTS
analog computer
analog data
analog decoding
analog encoding
analog facsimile equipment
analog signal
analog switch
analog to digital (A D) coder
analog to digital (A D) encoder
analog to digital converter (ADC)
analog transmission
angle modulation
angle of deviation
angle of incidence