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0-9

16VSB
2VSB
32VSB
4000 series
4VSB
555 timer IC
741
7400 series
8VSB

A

Absolute gain
Access control
Acceptance pattern
Access time
Acoustic coupler
Acquisition
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Adaptive communications
Adder
Adjacent-channel interference
Alarm sensor
Aliasing
Alternate party
Alternating current
AM radio
Amateur radio
Ambient noise level
American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
AMI
Ammeter
Amperage (see Current)
Ampere
Amplitude distortion
Amplitude modulation
Amplifier
Analog
Analog computer
Analog decoding
Analogue switch
Analog to digital converter
Angular misalignment loss
Antenna
Antenna blind cone
Antenna effective area
Antenna gain
Antenna height above average terrain
Antenna noise temperature
Antenna theory
aperiodic antenna
aperture
aperture illumination
Aperture-to-medium coupling loss
Apollo Guidance Computer
Arithmetic and logical unit
Armstrong oscillator
ARRL
Articulation score
Astable
Asynchronous communications system
Asynchronous operation
Asynchronous start-stop
Atmospheric duct
Atmospheric waveguide
Attenuation
Audible ringing tone
Audio system measurements
Automatic call distributor
Automatic data processing
Automatic Gain Control
Automatic link establishment
Automatic Number Identification
Automatic sounding
Automatic switching system
Autovon
Availability
Available line
Avalanche diode
Azimuth

B

BCS theory
Backplane
Backward channel
Balancing network
Ball grid array
Band gap
Bandwidth compression
Bare particular
Baseband
Battery (electricity)
Baud rate
Baudot code
beam
beam diameter
beam divergence
beam steering
beamwidth
Bel
Bias
biconical antenna
billboard antenna
Binaural recording
Binary classification
Bipolar junction transistor
Broadband Internet
Back-to-back connection
Backscattering
Balance return loss
Balanced line
Band-stop filter
Beam diameter
Beamwidth
Bias distortion
Bilateral synchronization
Bipolar signal
Bit inversion
Bit pairing
Bit stuffing
Bit synchronous operation
Bit-count integrity
Bits per second
Black facsimile transmission
Black recording
BNC connector
Signal boosting
boresight
Broadband
Breadboard
Bremsstrahlung
Bridging loss
Burst transmission
Busy hour
Busy signal
Bypass
Barrage jamming
Big ugly dish
Bit robbing
Blanketing
Bluetooth
Broadband wireless access
Broadcasting

C

C-QUAM
Cable modem
Cable television
Call collision
Call set-up time
Call-second
Capacitor
Capacitive coupling
Capture effect
Carbon nanotube
Carrier system
Card standards
Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection
Carrier shift
Carrier wave
Carson bandwidth rule
Carrier-to-receiver noise density
Carrier
Cassegrain antenna
Category 5 cable
Cathode ray tube
Central processing unit
Cesium standard
Chadless tape
Channel noise level
Channel
Channel reliability
Character-count integrity
Characteristic impedance
Charge-coupled device
Chemical vapor deposition
Chroma subsampling
Chirping
Circuit
Circuit breaker
Circuit noise level
Circuit reliability
Circuit restoration
Circuit switching
Circular polarization
Circulator
Citizens' band radio
Cladding
Clapp oscillator
Clean room
Clear channel
Clearing
Clipping
Clock signal
Closed-circuit television
Closed circuit
Closed waveguide
CMOS
Coaxial cable
Co-channel interference
Code division multiple access
Code word
Coherence length
Coherence
Coherence time
Coherent differential phase-shift keying
Coherer
Coil
Coilgun
Color code
Collinear antenna array
Collins Radio
collinear antenna array
Colpitts oscillator
Combat-net radio
Combined distribution frame
Combinatorial logic
Common base
Common battery
Common collector
Common control
Common emitter
Common-mode interference
Commonality
Communications center
Communications satellite
Communications security
Communications system engineering
Communications system
Communications-electronics
Communications
Compact audio cassette
Compatible sideband transmission
Composite video
Compulsator
Computer
Concentrator
Conditioning equipment
Conducted interference
Conduction
Conduction band
Conductive coupling
Connections per circuit hour
Conservation of radiance
Content delivery
Contention
Continuous Fourier transform
Continuous operation
Continuous wave
Convolution
Copper
Cord circuit
Corner reflector
Cosmic noise
Costas loop
Coulomb's law
Counter
Coupling
Covert channel
Covert listening device
CPU design
CQD
Cross product
Crossbar switch
Crosstalk
Critical angle
Critical frequency
Current
Cutback technique
Cutoff frequency
Cutoff wavelength
Crystal filter
Crystal radio receiver

D

D region
D-4
Data
Data bank
Data circuit terminating equipment
Data compaction
Data integrity
Data link
Data service unit
Data terminal equipment
Data transmission circuit
Datasheet
DBa
DBm
DBrn
DDR SDRAM
Degree of isochronous distortion
Delay line
Delay
Delta modulation
Demand assignment
Demand factor
Demand load
Demodulation
Demodulator
departure angle
Design objective
despun antenna
Deviation
Dial-up
Diamagnetism
Dielectric constant
Dielectric strength
Dielectric
Dielectric waveguide
Differential amplifier
Diffraction
Digital Audio Tape
Digital access and cross-connect system
Digital circuit
Digital radio
Digital filter
Digital signal processing
Digital multiplex hierarchy
Digital signal processor
Digital to analog converter
Digital transmission group
Digitizer
Diode
DIN
DIP switch
diplex operation
Dipole
dipole antenna
Direct bandgap
Direct broadcast satellite
Direct current
Direct distance dialing
direct ray
directional antenna
Directional coupler
Directive gain
Direct-sequence spread spectrum
Discrete
Discrete Fourier transform
Dispersion-limited operation
Distortion-limited operation
Distortion
Distributed switching
Diurnal phase shift
Diversity reception
DOD master clock
Doping
Double-sideband suppressed-carrier transmission
Double-slit experiment
Drift
Drop and insert
Dropout
Dual access
Dual-modulus prescaler
Dual-tone multi-frequency
Duobinary signal
Duplex
Duty cycle
Dual in-line package
DXCC
Dynamic range

E

E-layer
E-skip
Earphone
Earpiece
Earth's magnetic field
Echelon
EDIF
effective antenna gain contour
effective boresight area
Effective data transfer rate
Effective Earth radius
Effective height
Effective input noise temperature
effective isotropically radiated power
effective monopole radiated power
effective radiated power
Effective transmission rate
Efficiency factor
Electric charge
Electric current
Electric field
Electric motor
Electric power transmission
Electric power
Electrical conduction
Electrical conductivity
Electrical connector
Electrical current
Electrical efficiency
Electrical engineering
Electrical generator
Electrical resistance
Electrical signal
Electricity
Electricity distribution
Electrical connector
Electrical length
Electrical network
Electro-optic effect
Electro-optic modulator
Electro-optics
Electrochemical cell
Electrochemistry
Electrode
Electrodynamics
Electrolytic capacitor
Electromagnetic environment
Electromagnetic induction
Electromagnetic interference control
Electromagnetic pulse
Electromagnetic radiation
Electromagnetic radiation hazard
Electromagnetic spectrum
Electromagnetic survivability
Electrometer
Electromagnetism
Electron hole
Electron
Electronic amplifier
Electronic deception
Electronic filter
Electronic imager
Electronic mixer
Electronic musical instrument
Electronic oscillator
Electronic power supply
Electronic tagging
Electronic test equipment
Electronic warfare support measures
Electronics
Electrostatic discharge
Electronic switching system
Electronic color code
Element
Emergency position-indicating rescue beacon
Emitter coupled logic
Entropy encoding
End distortion
Endurability
Enhanced service
Equilibrium length
Equivalent noise resistance
Equivalent pulse code modulation noise
Erase
Error-correcting code
Error burst
Error ratio
Examples of electrical phenomena
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF)
Eye pattern

F

Fab
Facility
Facsimile converter
Fade
Fading distribution
Fail safe
Fall time
fan-beam antenna
Far-field region
Farad
Faraday cage
Faraday constant
Faraday's law of induction
Fault management
Fault
FCC registration program
Federal Standard 1037C
feed
Feed horn
Feedback
Ferromagnetism
Ferroelectric effect
Field
Field effect transistor
Field (physics)
Field strength
Filled cable
Filter
Filter design
Flip flop
Flutter
Fluorescent lamp
Flux
Flywheel effect
FM band
FM improvement factor
FM improvement threshold
FM radio
Fourier series
Fourier transform (see also List of Fourier-related transforms)
Forward error correction
Four-wire circuit
Four-wire terminating set
Fractal antenna
Frame
Frame rate
Frame slip
Frame synchronization
Framing bit
Free-space loss
Freenet
Freeze frame television
Frequency
Frequency modulation synthesis
Frequency-exchange signaling
Frequency-hopping spread spectrum
Frequency-shift keying
Frequency-division multiplexing
Frequency assignment
Frequency averaging
Frequency counter
Frequency deviation
Frequency frogging
Frequency modulation
Frequency synthesiser
Frequency standard
Fresnel zone
Fresnel equations
Fresnel reflection
Front-to-back ratio
Fuel cell
Fuse

G

Galvanometer
Gallium arsenide
Garble
Gateway
Gating
Gauss
Geiger-Mueller tube
Gel electrophoresis
Gemini Guidance Computer
Gender changer
Global Positioning System
Global system for mobile communications
Glossary of antenna terms
Glossary of telecommunications encryption terms
Glossary of telecommunications transmission terms
Glossary of telephony terms
GNU Radio
Graded-index fiber
Grade of service
Ground
Ground constants
Ground loop
Ground plane
Groundwave
Guided ray
Gyrator

H

H-channel
Halftone characteristic
Hall effect
Hamming code
Hamming distance
Handoff
Handshaking
Hard copy
Harmonic
Harmonic analysis
Harmonic oscillator
Hartley oscillator
Heat sink
helical antenna
Henry (inductance)
Hertz
Heterodyne repeater
Heterodyne
High-performance equipment
High frequency
High-speed circuit-switched data
Hop
Horn
How to make a transformer
How to test three-phase electrical supply
How to test three-phase pumps
Hybrid balance
Hybrid circuit
Hybrid coil
hybrid coupler
Hysteresis

I

IEEE 802
IEEE 802.11
IEEE 802.15
Image antenna
Image response
Image frequency
Image rejection ratio
Impedance
Impedance match
Impedance mismatch
In-band on-channel
Incidental radiator
Independent sideband
Index of cooperation
Inductive coupling
Inductor
Inductive reactance
Information transfer
Information-bearer channel
Infrared
Input
Insertion gain
Insertion loss
Inside plant
Insulation
Integrated circuit
Intentional radiator
Intensity modulation
Intercept
Interchange circuit
Intercharacter interval
Interconnect facility
Interference
Interferometry
Intermediate-field region

Intermodulation distortion
International Electrotechnical Commission
Interoperability
Interposition trunk
Intersymbol interference
Inverse multiplexer
Inverse-square law
Ion pump
Ionosphere
ISM band
Isochronous burst transmission
Isochronous signal
Isotropic antenna

J

Jam signal
Jamming
Jansky
Jitter

K

K-factor
Karnaugh map
Kendall effect
Key pulsing
Kirchhoff's circuit laws
Klystron
Knife-edge effect

L

LNA
Laser
Launch angle
Launch numerical aperture
Lead-lag effect
Leaky mode
Light bulb
Light-dependent resistor
Light-emitting diode
Lightning
Limiting
Line code
Linear feedback shift register
Linear regulator
Lip synchronization
Load
Loading
Loading characteristic
Loading coil
lobe
Local battery
Log-periodic antenna
Logic
Logic gate
Long-haul communications
Long-tailed pair
Long-term stability
Longitudinal redundancy check
loop
Loop gain
Loop-back
Low frequency
Low-performance equipment
Low noise amplifier
Lumped element model

M

Magnet
Magnetic core memory
Magnetic field
Magnetic flux
Magnetic flux quantum
Magnetic levitation
Magnetism
Magnetosphere
Magneto-optic effect
Magnetron
Main distribution frame
Main lobe
Making a transformer
Manchester code
Maser
Mask work
Master frequency generator
Maximal-ratio combiner
Maximum usable frequency
Maxwell's equations
Maxwell's demon
Mean time between outages
Mediation function
Medium
Medium frequency (MF)
Medium-power talker
Mediumwave
Michelson-Morley experiment
Microelectronics
Microphone
Microwave
Microwave auditory effect
Microwave oven
MIL-STD-188
Minimum bend radius
Mode scrambler
Mode volume
Modem
Modular synthesizer
Modulation
Modulation factor
Modulation rate
Molecular electronics
Monostable
Moore's law
Morse code
MOS Technologies 6501
MOS Technologies 6502
Mu-law algorithm
Multi-element dipole antenna
Multimeter
Multipath
Multipath propagation
Multiple access
Multiple homing
Multiplex baseband
multicoupler
Multiplexer
Multiplexing
Multiplication ALU
Multivibrator

N

N connector
Nanotechnology
Nanowire
Narrative traffic
Narrowband
Narrowband modem
National Electric Code
natural frequency
Nature versus nurture
Neural network
Near-field region
Negative-acknowledge character
Net gain
Netlist
Network administration
Network architecture
Network management
Neutral direct-current telegraph system
Nickel metal hydride
Noise-cancelling headphone
Noise-equivalent power
Noise figure
Noise level
Noise power
Noise temperature
Noise weighting
Non-return-to-zero
Normalized frequency
NTSC
Nuclear magnetic resonance
null
Numbers station
Numerical aperture
Numerically controlled oscillator
Nyquist interval

O

Off-hook
Off-line
Ohm
Ohm's law
Ohmmeter
Oliver Heaviside
Omnidirectional antenna
On-hook
On-line
One-way trunk
Open circuit
Open spectrum
Operational amplifier
orthomode transducer
Optical density
Optical fiber
Optical path length
Optical spectrum
Optoelectronic
Orthogonal frequency division modulation
Oscilloscope
Output
Out-of-band signaling
Outside plant
Overflow
Overhead information
Overmodulation
Override
Overshoot

P

Packet switching
Packet-switching node
Paired disparity code
PAL
Par meter
Parabolic antenna
Parabolic microphone
Parallel transmission
parasitic element
Parity
Passband
Patch bay
Path loss
Path profile
Pauli exclusion principle
PBER
PCB layout guidelines
Peak envelope power
Peltier effect
Performance measurement period
periodic antenna
Periscope antenna
Permeability
Permittivity
Phantom circuit
Phantom loop
Phase
Phase-locked loop
Phase-shift keying
Phase distortion
Phase jitter
Phase modulation
Phase noise
Phase perturbation
Phased array
Photodiode
Photoelectric effect
Photolithography
Photon
Physical layer
Pickup
Pin grid array
planar array
Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
PID controller
Piezoelectricity
Pirate radio
Planar array
Planck's constant
Point-to-point construction
Polarization
Polyphase system
Portable people meter
Potential difference
Potential divider
Power
Power connector
Power supply
Polarential telegraph system
Polling
Preamplifier
Preemphasis
Preemphasis network
Preferred values
Preventive maintenance
Primary channel
Printed circuit board
Primary time standard
Principal clock
Product detector
Programmable logic device
Propagation
propagation mode
Propagation path obstruction
Proration
PSK31
Pseudorandom noise
Pseudorandom number sequence
Pulse
Pulse amplitude
Pulse duration
Pulsed inductive thruster
Pulse-address multiple access
Pulse-code modulation
Pulse-width modulation
Push-to-talk operation
Push-to-type operation
Pyroelectricity

Q

R

Race hazard
Radar
Radiation angle
Radiation mode
Radiation pattern
radiation resistance
Radiator
Radio
radio beam
Radio clock
Radio electronics
Radio frequency
Radio frequency induction
Radio horizon
radio horizon range
Radio propagation
Radio Row
radio range
Radio receiver
Radio station
Radiotelephone
Radioteletype
Radix-64
Railgun
Random access memory
Randomizer
Ray transfer matrix analysis
RC
RC Network
RCA
RCA jack
Reactance
Receive-after-transmit time delay
Received noise power
Receiver
Receiver attack-time delay
Reception
Record medium
reference antenna
Reference circuit
Reference clock
Reference noise
Reference surface
Reflection coefficient
Reflection loss
Reflective array antenna
Refractive index contrast
Register
Regeneration
Regenerative circuit
Release time
Relative transmission level
Relational model
Relaxation oscillator
Relay
Remote operations service element protocol
Remote sensing
Repair and maintenance
Repeater
Repeating coil
Reproduction speed
Reradiation
Resistor
Resistor color code
Resonance
Response time
Response
Responsivity
Return loss
RF connector
RF modulator
RF probe
RF shielding
RFID
RF power margin
RGB color space
rhombic antenna
Ring current
Ring latency
Ring modulation
Ringback signal
Ringdown
RJ45
RLC series circuit
Robot
Rogowski coil
Root mean square
Routing indicator
RS-232
RX
Rydberg formula

S

S/PDIF
S-Video
Sacrificial anode
Sampling frequency
Scalar field
Scanner
Scanning electron microscope
SCART
Schema
Schematic
School Experiment - Oscilloscope
Schumann resonance
Scrambler
Screen
Second audio program
Security management
Self-clocking signal
Self-synchronizing code
Sensor Networks
SECAM
Semiautomatic switching system
Semiconductor
Semiconductor device
Semiconductor device fabrication
Sensitivity
Separate channel signaling
Serial access
Serial ATA
Serial transmission
Series and parallel circuits
Shadow loss
Shannon limit
Shannon's theorem
Short circuit
Shortwave
Shot noise
Shrinking generator
side lobe
Sideband
Sidereal time
Siemens
Signal
Signal (information theory)
Signal compression
Signal processing
Signal processing gain
Signal reflection
Signal transition
single-polarized antenna
Signal-to-noise ratio
Signal-to-crosstalk ratio
Signature block
Significant condition
Silicon
Silicon bandgap temperature sensor
Simplex circuit
Simplex signaling
Single-frequency signaling
Single-sideband modulation
Sinc filter
Single frequency networks
Single phase electric power
Skew
Skin effect
skip zone
Skywave
Slant range
slewing
slot antenna
Slow-scan television
Software-defined radio
Solar cell
Soldering
Solenoid
Sound card
space diversity
Specific detectivity
Space tether
Spark gap
Specification
Speckle pattern
Spectral width
Spectrum
Spectrum analyzer
Speed of light
Speed of service
SPICE
spillover
Spill-forward feature
Spin glass
spot beam
Spread spectrum
Spurious emission
Spy satellite
Squelch
Standard telegraph level
Standard test signal
Standard test tone
Standing wave
Standing wave ratio
Starpath Supercharger
Start signal
Start-stop transmission
Static electricity
Steady-state condition
Step-index profile
Stop signal
Stopband
Store-and-forward switching center
Stressed environment
Strobe light
Stroke speed
Subcarrier
Subtractive synthesis
Sudden ionospheric disturbance
Supercomputer
Superconductivity
Superheterodyne receiver
Superparamagnetism
Supervisory program
Suppressed carrier transmission
Surface wave
Surface-mount technology
Surveillance device
Survivability
Switch
Switched-mode power supply
Synchronism
Synchronization
Synchronizing
Synchronous network
Synchronous optical networking
Synthesizer
System integrity
Systems control

T

T-carrier
TEMPEST
TRF
TRS
TTL
TX
Table of standard electrode potentials
Tantalum
Tactical communications system
Tactical communications
Tactical data information link--A
Tape relay
Technical control facility
Telecommunication
Telecommunications service
Teleconference
Telegrapher's equations
Telegraphy
Telemetry
Telephone tapping
Teletext
Teletraining
Television
Tensor
Tesla coil
Tesla patents
test antenna
Tether propulsion
Thermal noise
Thermistor
Third-order intercept point
Three phase
Time-assignment speech interpolation
Time-domain reflectometer
Time-division multiple access
Time-division multiplexing
Time-out
Tinfoil hat
TNC connector
Toll switching trunk
Total harmonic distortion
Total internal reflection
Traffic intensity
Traffic shaping
Transceiver
Transcoding
Transducer
Transformer
Transient electromagnetic device
Transistor
Transistor-transistor logic
Transistor radio
Transition metal
Transmission coefficient
Transmission level point
Transmission
Transmission line
Transmission medium
Transmit-after-receive time delay
Transmitter
Transmitter attack-time delay
Transmitter-studio link
Transparent latch
Triangle wave
Trimline telephone
Troposphere
Tropospheric ducting
Tropospheric wave
Transponder
Transverse redundancy check
Traveling wave tube
Tuner
Twisted pair

U

Ultra Wideband
Ultra high frequency
Ultraviolet
Unavailability
Uncertainty principle
uniform linear array
Unijunction transistor
Unintentional radiator
Unit interval (telecommunications)
Uplink
Upright position
User

V

VAC
Vackar oscillator
Vacuum tube
Valence band
Varistor
Validation
Variable length buffer
Varicap
VDC
Vector field
Veroboard
Very-large-scale integration
Very high frequency
VHSIC Hardware Description Language
Video
Video cassette recorder
Video teleconference
Video teleconferencing unit
Virtual circuit
Virtual circuit capability
Voice frequency
Voice frequency primary patch bay
Volt
Voltmeter
Vox

W

Wardenclyffe Tower
Watt
Wave
Wave impedance
Waveform
Waveguide
waveguide antenna
Wavelength division multiplexing
Wavelength
Warner exemption
White facsimile transmission
Wideband modem
Williams tube
Wink pulsing
whip antenna
Wire
Wire wrap
Wireless
Wireless access point
Wireless community network
Wireless network
Wireless personal area network

X

X-dimension of recorded spot

Y

Z

Z-transform
Zener diode
Zero-dispersion wavelength
Zero dBm transmission level point
Zig-zag in-line package
ZigBee
ZIF
Zone melting