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A component of the evaluation criteria for a particular phase or aspect of evaluation, identifying what the evaluator must do to check the information supplied by the sponsor of the evaluator, and the additional activities he must perform.
Industry:Telecommunications
A component that is identifiable at the lowest hierarchical level of specification produced during Detailed Design.
Industry:Telecommunications
A component which allows the transfer of information from one system to another, whilst providing a high level of confidence that information flow in the reverse direction is prevented. Note: Used where the security class of the receiving system dominates that of the sender.
Industry:Telecommunications
A composite color video signal comprised of sync, color burst, and black video. Note: Black burst is used to synchronize (genlock) other video sources to the same sync and color information. Black burst generators are used in video studios to "lock" the entire facility to a common signal ("house sync" or "house black". )
Industry:Telecommunications
A computational algorithm that processes measurements to deduce an optimum estimate of the past, present, or future state of a linear system by using a time sequence of measurements of the system behavior, plus a statistical model that characterizes the system and measurement errors, plus initial condition information.
Industry:Telecommunications
A computer (a) in which the processing unit is a microprocessor and (b) that usually consists of a microprocessor, a storage unit, an input channel, and an output channel, all of which may be on one chip.
Industry:Telecommunications
A computer conference devoted to a specific subject, having an initiator, members, readers, and possibly moderators. Synonyms chat group, discussion group, discussion list, discussion thread, followup, interest group, library, newsgroup, yythread.
Industry:Telecommunications
A computer designed to perform, or that is capable of performing, in a reasonably efficient manner, the functions required by both scientific and business applications. Note: A general purpose computer is often understood to be a large system, capable of supporting remote terminal operations, but it may also be a smaller computer, e.g., a desktop workstation.
Industry:Telecommunications
A computer embedded in a communications system. Note 1: An example of a CPU is the message data processor of a DDN switching center. Note 2: CPU is also an abbreviation for central processing unit of a computer.
Industry:Telecommunications
A computer environment or program that displays, or facilitates the display of, on-screen options, usually in the form of icons (pictorial symbols) or menus (lists of alphanumeric characters) by means of which users may enter commands. Note 1: Options are selected by using the appropriate hardware (e.g., mouse, designated keyboard keys, or touchpad) to move a display cursor to, or on top of, the icon or menu item of interest. The application or function so represented may then be selected (e.g., by clicking a mouse button, pressing the "enter" key, or by touching the touchpad. ) Note 2: Pronounced "gooey. "
Industry:Telecommunications
