Communications Standard Dictionary - Hardcover

Weik, Martin H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0442205562 ISBN 13: 9780442205560

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988

Synopsis

Communications * Standard Dictionary is a comprehensive compilation of terms and definitions used in communications and related fields. Communications is defined as the branch of science and technology concerned with the process of representing, transferring, and interpreting the meaning as- signed to data by and among persons, places, or machines. Communication is defined as the transfer of information between a source (trans- mitter, light source) and a sink (receiver, photodetector) over one or more chan- nels in accordance with a protocol, and in a manner suitable for interpretation or comprehension by the receiver; or as a method or means of conveying informa- tion of any kind from one person or place to another. In short, communications is a branch of science and technology, whereas com- munication pertains to the actual transfer of information. Thus, the word com- munication should be used as a modifier, as in communication center, communi- cation deception, and communication line, just as in the field of electronics one speaks of electronic devices and electronic circuits.

About this title

Synopsis

Now in its Third Edition, the Communications Standard Dictionary maintains its position as the most comprehensive dictionary covering communications technologies available.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0442205562
• ISBN 13: 9780442205560
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1168