In aeronautical navigation, an instrument approach landing facility that furnishes vertical guidance information to an aircraft from its approach altitude down to the surface of the runway.

1. Pertaining to, or involving, the entire world.
2. Pertaining to that which is defined in one subsection of an entity and used in at least one other subsection of the same entity.
3. In computer, data processing, and communications systems, pertaining to what is applicable to an area beyond the immediate area of consideration.
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In a communications network, the predefined address that is used as an address for all users of that network, and that may not be the address of an individual user, or subgroup of users, of the network.

A network that (a) is composed of different interconnected computer networks and (b) covers an unlimited geographical area.
Note: Loosely synonymous with an internet (as opposed to the Internet (with an uppercase "I"), which designates one specific network). [After 2382-pt.35]

The plane in the intelligent network conceptual model that defines service independent building blocks (SIBs) used in providing service features. [T1.667-1999]

See GII.

A satellite-based global navigation system that consists of (a) a constellation of satellites in orbit 11,000 nmi above the Earth, (b) several on-station (i.e., in-orbit) spares, and (c) a ground-based control segment. The satellites transmit signals that are used for extremely accurate three-dimensional (latitude, longitude, and elevation) global navigation (position determination), and for the dissemination of precise time. GPS-derived position… (Read More →)

A security domain in a System Security policy. The GSE is the general security environment in which the system is located. It covers everything outside the control of the System or Project Manager which may have a bearing on the security of the system and which is therefore deemed to be the responsibility of the DSO [CESG]. See also: Electronic… (Read More →)

1. The set of attributes of an entity, described at a particular time, when that set is extended to every occurrence of that entity within a prescribed boundary.
2. The complete set of attributes necessary to describe an entity at a particular time.

A public, all-digital cellular network that is standardized worldwide and that uses (a) TDMA techniques for multiplexing at approximately 900 MHz, (b) compressed voice at about 13 kb/s, (c) 16 kb/s circuit-switching technology, and (d) error-correcting algorithms.