A patching facility designed for patching and monitoring digital data circuits at data signaling rates from 1 Mb/s (megabits per second) to 3 Mb/s.

1. Abbreviation for Motion Picture Experts Group.
2. In digital television signal recording or transmission, the designator that identifies a certain coding algorithm having several levels and profiles, the most sophisticated of which are used for HDTV (high-definition television) applications.
Note: M-PEG-2 video coding has been developed for use with satellite TV applications, including the required decoders ("set-top boxes").
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See n-sequence.

Machine-to-Machine

1. medium access control,
2. media access control.

An attribute of a subject or object which represents the sensitivity of the subject or object and is used for mandatory access control decisions. The contents of MAC labels are implementation defined [POSIX.6].

An instruction that is written in a machine language and can be executed directly by the processor for which it was designed without translation or interpretation.

A language that need not be modified, translated, or interpreted before it can be used by the processor for which it was designed.
Note 1: The operation codes and addresses used in instructions written in machine language can be directly sensed by the arithmetic and control unit circuits of the processor for which the language is designed.
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The ability of a device to improve its performance based on its past performance.

Synonym computer word.