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An undesired disturbance within the frequency band of interest; the summation of unwanted or disturbing energy introduced into a communications system from man-made and natural sources. 2. A disturbance that affects a signal and that may distort the information carried by the signal. 3. Random variations of one or more characteristics of any entity such as voltage, current, or data. 4. A random signal of known statistical properties of amplitude, distribution, and spectral density. 5. Loosely, any disturbance tending to interfere with the normal operation of a device or system.
Industry:Telecommunications
An undesired mode that is confined to the cladding of an optical fiber by virtue of the fact that the cladding has a higher refractive index than the surrounding medium, i.e., air or primary polymer overcoat. Note: Modern fibers have a primary polymer overcoat with a refractive index that is slightly higher, rather than lower, than that of the cladding, in order to strip off cladding modes after only a few centimeters of propagation.
Industry:Telecommunications
An undesired progressive change in frequency with time. Note 1: Causes of frequency drift include component aging and environmental changes. Note 2: Frequency drift may be in either direction and is not necessarily linear.
Industry:Telecommunications
An undesired self-sustained audio oscillation in a circuit. Note: Singing is usually caused by positive feedback, excessive gain, or unbalance of a hybrid termination, or by some combination of these.
Industry:Telecommunications
An undesired signal occurring in the main channel from modulation of the stereophonic channel or that occurring in the stereophonic channel from modulation of the main channel.
Industry:Telecommunications
An unwanted program which places itself into other programs, which are shared among computer systems, and replicates itself. Note: A virus is usually manifested by a destructive or disruptive effect on the executable program that it affects. 2. Self-replicating, malicious program segment that attaches itself to an application program or other executable system component and leaves no obvious signs of its presence.
Industry:Telecommunications
An unwanted voltage induced in a system by natural or man-made sources. Note: In telecommunications systems, the disturbance voltage creates currents that limit or interfere with the interchange of information. An example of a disturbance voltage is a voltage that produces (a) false signals in a telephone, (b) noise in a radio receiver, or (c) distortion in a received signal.
Industry:Telecommunications
An unweighted code that changes at only one digit position when going from one number to the next in a consecutive sequence of numbers. Note 1: Use of one of the many unit-distance codes can minimize errors at symbol transition points when converting analog quantities into digital quantities. Note 2: An example of a unit-distance code is the Gray code.
Industry:Telecommunications
An yyHTML document accessible on the World Wide Web. Note: The number and types of features that can be offered on a web page is growing almost exponentially.
Industry:Telecommunications
Analog-to-digital signal conversion in which (a) the analog signal is approximated with a series of segments, (b) each segment of the approximated signal is compared to the original analog wave to determine the increase or decrease in relative amplitude, (c) the decision process for establishing the state of successive bits is determined by this comparison, and (d) only the change of information is sent, i.e., only an increase or decrease of the signal amplitude from the previous sample is sent whereas a no-change condition causes the modulated signal to remain at the same 0 or 1 state of the previous sample. Note: Examples of delta modulation are continuously variable slope delta modulation, delta-sigma modulation, and differential modulation.
Industry:Telecommunications
