Synonym switching center.

1. A communications system consisting of switching centers and their interconnecting media.
2. Part of a communication system organized to temporarily associate functional units, transmission channels or telecommunication circuits for the purpose of providing a desired telecommunication facility.
Note: Examples of NATO-owned switching systems are IVSN and TARE.

Synonym yyswitch.

Abbreviation for standing wave ratio.

Abbreviation for simplex signaling.

Abbreviation for step-by-step switching system.

[A] list of individual letters, combination of letters, or syllables, with their equivalent code groups, used for spelling out words or proper names not present in the vocabulary of a code. A syllabary may also be a spelling table. [INFOSEC-99]

A character string or a bit string in a word.

A computer programming language used to express addresses and instructions with symbols convenient to humans rather than to machines.

The discipline in which valid arguments and operations are dealt with using an artificial language designed to avoid the ambiguities and logical inadequacies of natural languages.