- Branche: 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.
A character that initiates, modifies, or stops a function, event, operation, or control operation. Note: Control characters may be recorded for use in subsequent actions. They are not graphic characters but may have a graphic representation in some circumstances.
Industry:Telecommunications
A character that may be substituted for any of a defined subset of all possible characters. Note 1: In high-frequency (HF) radio automatic link establishment, the wildcard character "?" may be substituted for any one of the 36 characters, "A" through "Z" and "0" through "9. " Note 2: Whether the wildcard character represents a single character or a string of characters must be specified. 2. In computer (software) technology, a character that can be used to substitute for any other character or characters in a string. Note: The asterisk (*) usually substitutes as a wildcard character for any one or more of the ASCII characters, and the question mark (?) usually substitutes as a wildcard character for any one ASCII character.
Industry:Telecommunications
A character that separates the different addresses in a selection signal.
Industry:Telecommunications
A character used to indicate the beginning and end of a character string, i.e., a symbol stream, such as words, groups of words, or frames. 2. A flag that separates and organizes items of data.
Industry:Telecommunications
A character, derived from and appended to a data item, for later use in error detection and possibly error correction.
Industry:Telecommunications
A character, or a combination of bits, that is not valid in a given system according to specified criteria, such as with respect to a specified alphabet, a particular pattern of bits, a rule of formation, or a check code. Synonyms false character, forbidden character, improper character, unallowable character, unused character.
Industry:Telecommunications
A character, or a combination of bits, that is not valid in a given system according to specified criteria, such as with respect to a specified alphabet, a particular pattern of bits, a rule of formation, or a check code. Synonyms false character, forbidden character, improper character, unallowable character, unused character.
Industry:Telecommunications
A characteristic of a data element such as length, value, or method of representation.
Industry:Telecommunications
A characteristic of a key that distinguishes it as either a key-encrypting key or a data key.
Industry:Telecommunications
A characteristic of a quantity such that, for an n-bit quantity, the probability of two values' repeating is less likely than or equal to the probability of two n-bit quantities' repeating at random.
Industry:Telecommunications
