See shield.

The factor that expresses the attenuation caused by scattering, e.g., of radiant or acoustic energy, during its passage through a medium.
Note: The scattering coefficient is usually expressed in units of reciprocal distance.

1. The movement of some or all of the characters or bits of a word by the same number of character or bit positions in the direction of a specified end of a word.
2. In radar, the ability to move the origin of a radial display away from the center of the cathode ray tube.

A storage device, usually in a central processing unit (CPU), in which device a serially ordered set of data may be moved, as a unit, into a discrete number of storage locations.
Note 1: Shift registers may be configured so that the stored data may be moved in more than one direction.
Note 2: Shift registers may be configured so… (Read More →)

A mobile Earth station in the maritime mobile-satellite service located on board ship. [NTIA] [RR]

A mobile station in the maritime mobile service located on board a vessel which is not permanently moored, other than a survival craft station. [NTIA] [RR]

A ship's transmitter to be used exclusively on a distress frequency for distress, urgency or safety purposes. [NTIA] [RR]

Synonym impulse excitation.

Synonym response spectrum.

In electronic commerce (also called "e-commerce"), an application allowing users of a commercial Web site to select products from the screen display as they browse, and then to securely pay for all of those selected products in one secure transaction. [After Bahorsky]