The difference between a color and a specified reference color having a specified chromaticity and an equal luminance. [After Laurin]

In color television, that signal or portion of the composite signal that bears the color information.

Trunk: A trunk experiencing a much higher then normal rate of failure or switching irregularities, over a period of time, with resulting high incidence of test O. K. or no trouble found.

Carrier Identification Code

Classless Inter-Domain Routing

Abbreviation for Commission International de l'Eclairage (International Commission on Illumination). An international standards-setting organization, based in Vienna, Austria, which is concerned with the development of (a) color-matching systems, (b) recommended practices and standards concerning the properties and applications of light, and (c) methods of measurement pertaining thereto.

Common Information Model

A software file-compression scheme for video on low-power central processing units (CPUs), and typically operating with 320 x 240 pixels at 15 frames per second. [After Silicon]

1. Any cryptographic system in which arbitrary symbols, or groups of symbols, represent units of plain text or in which units of plain text are rearranged, or both. [INFOSEC-99]
2. The result of using a cipher.
Note: An example of a cipher is an enciphered message or text.

Any cryptosystem that requires the use of a key to convert, unit by unit, plain text, encoded text, or signals into an unintelligible form for secure transmission.
Note: The capability to decipher must be available at the receiving site.