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DIGITAL [5 records]

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Record 1 2013-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

Pertaining to data represented by digits.

CONT

Digital computers manipulate numbers encoded into binary (on-off) forms, while analog computers sum continuously varying forms.

OBS

digital: term standardized by CSA International and ISO/IEC [International Electrotechnical Commission].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
DEF

Qualifie des données représentées par des chiffres ainsi que les processus et les unités fonctionnelles qui utilisent ces données.

OBS

numérique : terme normalisé par la CSA International et l'ISO/CEI [Commission électrotechnique internationale].

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
DEF

Perteneciente a datos que consisten de dígitos como también procesos y unidades funcionales que usan esos datos.

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Record 2 2010-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiotelephony
  • Telephones
CONT

An alternate means of transmitting voice patterns between a cell site and wireless phone. Digital technology transforms voice patterns into zeros and ones (binary code - computer language). The computer encoding is transmitted along the radio channel and once the data has reached its desired destination, it is transferred back into the original voice patterns.

OBS

As opposed to analogue.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radiotéléphonie
  • Téléphones
CONT

Approche parallèle pour la transmission des signaux vocaux entre un site cellulaire et un téléphone sans fil. La technologie numérique transforme les signaux vocaux en une série de zéros et de un (code binaire du langage informatique). Le codage informatique est ainsi transmis sur les voies radio. Lorsque les données arrivent à destination, elles sont reconverties pour obtenir le signal vocal d'origine.

OBS

Par opposition à analogue.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Radiotelefonía
  • Teléfonos
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Record 3 - external organization data 2009-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
01.01.20 (19762)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

pertaining to data that consist of digits as well as to processes and functional units that use those data [ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993, 01.02.04]

OBS

Represented in a binary form rather than a continuously varying analogue form.

OBS

In the context of integrated artwork, produced by a number of discrete dots rather than a continuous image.

OBS

digital : term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 19762-1:2008].

French

Spanish

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Record 4 2008-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Informatics
OBS

Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering American company in the computer industry. It is often referred to within the computing industry as DEC. (This acronym was frequently officially used by Digital itself, but the official name was always DIGITAL.) Its PDP and VAX products were arguably the most popular minicomputers for the scientific and engineering communities during the 1970s and 1980s. DEC was acquired by Compaq in June 1998, which subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard in May 2002. As of 2007 its product lines were still produced under the HP name. From 1957 until 1992 its headquarters was in an old woolen mill in Maynard, Massachusetts.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Informatique

Spanish

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Record 5 - external organization data 2006-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
01.02.04 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

pertaining to data that consist of digits as well as to processes and functional units that use those data

OBS

digital: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - ISO/CEI JTC 1 Vocabulaire des technologies de l'information
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
01.02.04 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

qualifie des données représentées par des chiffres ainsi que les processus et les unités fonctionnelles qui utilisent ces données

OBS

numérique : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI [ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993].

Spanish

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