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  2. Telecommunications - Wikipedia

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    Telecommunication is a compound noun of the Greek prefix tele-(τῆλε), meaning distant, far off, or afar, [7] and the Latin verb communicare, meaning to share. Its modern use is adapted from the French, [ 8 ] because its written use was recorded in 1904 by the French engineer and novelist Édouard Estaunié .

  3. Outline of telecommunication - Wikipedia

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    Telecommunication – the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. In modern times, this process almost always involves the use of electromagnetic waves by transmitters and receivers, but in earlier years it also involved the use of drums and visual signals such as smoke , fire , beacons , semaphore lines and ...

  4. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    The first published English grammar was a Pamphlet for Grammar of 1586, written by William Bullokar with the stated goal of demonstrating that English was just as rule-based as Latin. Bullokar's grammar was faithfully modeled on William Lily's Latin grammar, Rudimenta Grammatices (1534), used in English schools at that time, having been ...

  5. Communications system - Wikipedia

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    An optical communication system is any form of communications system that uses light as the transmission medium. Equipment consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a communication channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a receiver, which reproduces the message from the received optical signal.

  6. Telephone - Wikipedia

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    An old rotary dial telephone AT&T push button telephone made by Western Electric, model 2500 DMG black, 1980. A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that enables two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly.

  7. Telecommunications industry - Wikipedia

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    Telecommunications Services United States 60,286.87 01/26/2000 Shareholders Other Financials Canada Nortel Networks Corp Telecommunications Equipment Canada 59,973.57 06/14/1999 Qwest Commun Intl Inc Telecommunications Services United States US WEST Inc Other Telecom United States 56,307.03 06/24/1998 AT&T Corp Telecommunications Services

  8. List of telecommunications terminology - Wikipedia

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    English. Read; Edit; View history ... Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is a List of telecommunications terminology and acronyms which relate to ...

  9. Communication channel - Wikipedia

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    A connection between initiating and terminating communication endpoints of a telecommunication circuit. A single path provided by a transmission medium via either physical separation, such as by multipair cable or; separation, such as by frequency-division or time-division multiplexing.