A network having a loss that varies with frequency in a predetermined manner, and which network is used for improving or correcting transmission characteristics, or for characterizing noise measurements.

Wired Equivalent Privacy

Weighted Fair Queuing

A flexible rod antenna, usually between 1/10 and 5/8 wavelength long, supported on a base insulator.

The area or population which does not receive interference-free primary service from an authorized AM station or does not receive a signal strength of at least 1 mV/m from an authorized FM station. [47CFR]

The maximum system-permissible excursion of the video signal in the white direction. [After SMPTE]

In television technology, the reduction of gain applied to light areas in picture signal (corresponding to the midrange light value in the picture).
Note: The gain in signal amplitude is small compared to the total peak-to-peak picture signal. Measuring the differential gain yields a quantitative evaluation of this effect. The effect of white compression beyond bandwidth limiting is a reduction… (Read More →)

1. In an amplitude-modulated facsimile system, transmission in which the maximum transmitted power corresponds to the minimum density, i.e., the white area, of the object.
2. In a frequency-modulated facsimile system, transmission in which the lowest transmitted frequency corresponds to the minimum density i.e., the white area, of the object.

Noise having a frequency spectrum that is continuous and uniform over a specified frequency band.
Note: White noise has equal power per hertz over the specified frequency band. Synonym additive white gaussian noise.

1. A hard copy telephone directory listing of subscriber names, addresses, and telephone numbers.
Note: White pages is associated with the residential subscriber listings in the standard directories distributed by the Bell System before divestiture.
2. An electronic information database that contains user names and their associated network addresses, in the manner of a telephone directory.
Note: Electronic white pages… (Read More →)