- Industry: Telecommunications
- Number of terms: 29235
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ATIS is the leading technical planning and standards development organization committed to the rapid development of global, market-driven standards for the information, entertainment and communications industry.
The act of searching through information-system (IS) storage to locate or acquire information without necessarily knowing of the existence or the format of the information being sought.
Industry:Telecommunications
The act of regenerating data that have been lost or contaminated. Note: Methods include copying data from archive, data reconstitution from alternative sources, or data reconstruction from source data.
Industry:Telecommunications
The act of producing unauthorized copy of an electronic security device while it is being used for its intended purpose. Note: Originally, skimming meant making an illegal copy of a credit card or a bank card when the original was being used correctly. Typical methods of skimming involve use of a modified reader that reads and stores all the information that the original card contains.
Industry:Telecommunications
The act of modifying all or part of the display on a monitor by selecting some object and moving the pointing device such that the displayed object moves in conjunction with the pointer.
Industry:Telecommunications
The act of listening, carrying out surveillance on, and/or recording the emissions of one's own or allied forces for the purposes of maintaining and improving procedural standards and security, or for reference, as applicable. 2. The act of listening, carrying out surveillance on, and/or recording of enemy emissions for intelligence purposes. 3. The act of detecting the presence of radiation and the measurement thereof with radiation measuring instruments. Synonym radiological monitoring.
Industry:Telecommunications
The act of listening to, copying, or recording transmissions of one's own official telecommunications to analyze the degree of security.
Industry:Telecommunications
The act of changing the scale of a display, generally without changing the amount of screen space it occupies.
Industry:Telecommunications
The acquisition or interpretation of data from a storage device, from a data medium, or from another source.
Industry:Telecommunications
The accurate positioning of, or the degree of accuracy in the positioning of, an entity relative to (a) another entity, or (b) an independent frame of reference. Note: For example, in color graphics applications involving the superposition of several colored rasters, such as in a CRT display, good registration (usually termed "convergence" in this context) is of paramount importance if the resulting image is not to have false colors, especially around the edges of objects. 2. In telephony, see FCC registration program. 3. In computer networking, the official assignment of a name (Internet Protocol address) to an information object or device, in a way that makes the assignment unduplicated anywhere else in the network and makes the device available for other devices to communicate with.
Industry:Telecommunications
The accomplishment of a color coordinate transformation by computational, electrical, optical, or by other means.
Industry:Telecommunications
