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Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
Industry: Telecommunications
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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.
On a data medium, a path associated with a single read/write head position as data move past the head.
Industry:Telecommunications
On a data recording medium, an area used to indicate the end of a block or physical record. Note: Examples of interblock gaps are the gaps between blocks on magnetic tape and disks.
Industry:Telecommunications
On a display device, display space that has been divided into two or more areas, so that each area can display different portions of the same file or portions of different files. Note 1: The split screen excludes the data lying between the portions of the file or files being displayed and includes the desired data in the two or more windows afforded by the split screen. Note 2: Examples of split screens are screens in which different portions of a spreadsheet, database, graph, or picture that are too far apart in storage to be viewed or displayed simultaneously as a single image, are viewed adjacently on a single screen.
Industry:Telecommunications
On a flowchart, a line that (a) has an indicated direction, (b) represents a connection between other symbols, and (c) indicates the sequence of operations or the transfer of control.
Industry:Telecommunications
On a multipoint connection or a point-to-point connection using basic mode link control, any tributary station waiting to be polled or selected.
Industry:Telecommunications
On magnetic disks, magnetic drums, and optical disks, the identification of sector boundaries by using recorded information.
Industry:Telecommunications
On the viewing screen of a display device, e.g., a computer monitor, horizontal shifting of the entire displayed image. Note: The panning direction is at a right angle with respect to the scrolling direction. 2. In video technology, the use of a camera to scan a subject horizontally. 3. In antenna systems, successively changing the azimuth of a beam of radio-frequency energy over the elements of a given horizontal region, or the corresponding process in reception.
Industry:Telecommunications
One complete cycle of a dial pulse, consisting of fall time, break interval, rise time, and make interval.
Industry:Telecommunications
One frequency used for one hour regardless of the number of transmitters over which it is simultaneously broadcast by a station during that hour.
Industry:Telecommunications
One half of the time average over the sum of the squares of the differences between successive readings of the frequency deviation sampled over the sampling period. Note: The Allan variance is conventionally expressed by y2 (. ) The samples are taken with no dead-time between them. Synonym two-sample variance.
Industry:Telecommunications