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echo suppression

The procedure by which characters entered into a system are not physically revealed [CESG].
Note: Often employed when passwords are entered so that they are not disclosed to casual observers.

echo suppressor

A device for connection to a two-way telephone circuit to attenuate echo signals in one direction caused by signals in the other direction.

echoplex

An echo check used in public switched networks operating in the full-duplex transmission mode, i.e., the two-way-simultaneous mode.

ECMP

Equal Cost Multipath Routing

ECRIT

Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies

EDA

Event-Driven Architecture

EDGE

Enhanced Data-Rate for GSM Evolution

edge busyness

In a video display, distortion that is concentrated at or near the edge of objects, and that is categorized further by its temporal and spatial characteristics.

edge-emitting LED

An LED that has a physical structure superficially resembling that of an injection laser diode, operated below the lasing threshold and emitting incoherent light.
Note: Edge-emitting LEDs have a relatively small beam divergence, and thus are capable of launching more optical power into a given fiber than are the conventional surface-emitting LEDs. [After FAA]

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