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** a fast busy signal ( also called reorder tone or overflow busy tone ) signifying that there is congestion in the telephone network, or possibly that the calling subscriber has delayed too long in dialling all the necessary digits.
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** Atkinson independently discovered the Midpoint circle algorithm for fast drawing of circles by using the sum of consecutive odd numbers.
** Braising-combining a direct dry heat charbroil-grill or gridiron-grill with a pot filled with broth for direct moist heat, faster than smoking but slower than regular grilling and baking ; time starts fast, slows down, then speeds up again to finish.
** Sligo fiddling from northern Connacht, which like Donegal fiddling tends to be fast, but with a bouncier feel to the bowing.
** India is also planning to build fast breeder reactors using the thorium – Uranium-233 fuel cycle.
** A faster, fully hardware-based multiplier makes instructions such as MUL and IMUL several times as fast ( and more predictable ) than in the 80486 ; the execution time is reduced from 13 ~ 42 clock cycles down to 10 ~ 11 for 32-bit operands.
** USS Sacramento ( AOE-1 ) was the lead ship of Sacramento-class fast combat support ships, commissioned in 1964 and decommissioned in 2004.
** In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a fast protesting against British rule in India.
** The Great Depression officially ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to WWII-related employment, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration
** The U. S. stock market, especially the Dow Jones Industrial Average, gains at an incredibly fast pace following the 1996 Presidential election.
** Ray Kroc, American fast food entrepreneur ( McDonald's ) ( d. 1984 )
** Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur ( Wendy's ) ( b. 1932 )
** Several fast food restaurants can be found within the cities: London, England ; Paris, France ; Dublin, Ireland ; and Madrid, Spain.
** spread fast around Europe, but faced problems especially in Mediterranean countries, Balkan, and Eastern Europe due to cadastre upkeep costs and troubles.
** ADiT is a fast SPICE simulator
** Chi-Min Liu and Wen-Chieh Lee, " A unified fast algorithm for cosine modulated filterbanks in current audio standards ", J.
** V. Britanak and K. R. Rao, " A new fast algorithm for the unified forward and inverse MDCT / MDST computation ," Signal Processing 82, 433-459 ( 2002 )
** Electron cyclotron emission antennas – fast, high resolution electron temperature profiles
** inexpensive and fast
** How fast is the rate of convergence of the learning process?
** AHC-Advanced High-Speed CMOS, three times as fast as HC
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** 2 fast to, Clapham Junction and
** Hourly fast East Midlands Trains service to Nottingham via East Midlands Parkway
** Hourly fast East Midlands Trains service to Sheffield, with peak hour services to Leeds and weekend services to York and Scarborough
** Hourly fast East Midlands Trains service to London St Pancras
** and busy
** a busy signal ( or engaged tone ) signifying that the calling party's telephone is being used in a telephone call to another person ( or is " off the hook " though no number has been dialled, i. e. the customer does not want to be disturbed )
** In the scene where Jules Verne steps off the curb into a busy street in front of the Arc de Triomphe, the car that almost hits him is a five-door hatchback, Renault Clio, at the time of filming the newest model in Renault's fleet of cars.
** The last Casiopea studio album before leader and guitarist Issei Noro decided to put the band on Hiatus ( due to having a busy schedule ).
** and signal
** Scanning unit-when a calculator is powered on, it scans the keypad waiting to pick up an electrical signal when a key is pressed.
** Digital filter, a system that performs mathematical operations to reduce or enhance certain aspects of a signal
** Analogue filter, a basic building block of signal processing much used in electronics, see Passive analogue filter development
** Filtering problem ( stochastic processes ), a mathematical model for a number of filtering problems in signal processing and the like
** Frequency modulation ( FM ) ( here the frequency of the carrier signal is varied in accordance to the instantaneous amplitude of the modulating signal )
** Phase modulation ( PM ) ( here the phase shift of the carrier signal is varied in accordance to the instantaneous amplitude of the modulating signal )
** In circuit analysis and signal processing to represent natural frequency, related to frequency f by ω = 2πf
** A telegraph relay, repeating a weak signal received at the end of a long wire
** Controlling a high-voltage circuit with a low-voltage signal, as in some types of modems or audio amplifiers,
** Controlling a high-current circuit with a low-current signal, as in the starter solenoid of an automobile,
** The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space ; the event is named the " WOW!
** Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
** Insertion loss, the decrease in transmitted signal power resulting from the insertion of a device in a transmission line or optical fiber
** Diversity combining, the combining of multiple received signals into a single improved signal
** VHDL-AMS-Continuous conservative / signal flow discreent event and Register transfer level capability.
** Verilog-AMS-Continuous conservative / signal flow discreent event and Register transfer level capability.
** In an AM ( amplitude modulation ) transmitter the amplitude ( strength ) of the carrier wave is varied in proportion to the audio signal.
** In an FM ( frequency modulation ) transmitter the frequency of the carrier is varied by the audio signal.
** Electrical specification of transmission line signal level and impedance
** Radio interface, including electromagnetic spectrum frequency allocation and specification of signal strength, analog bandwidth, etc.
** Spurious-free dynamic range ( SFDR ) indicates in dB the ratio between the powers of the converted main signal and the greatest undesired spur.
** Signal-to-noise and distortion ratio ( SNDR ) indicates in dB the ratio between the powers of the converted main signal and the sum of the noise and the generated harmonic spurs
** i-th harmonic distortion ( HDi ) indicates the power of the i-th harmonic of the converted main signal
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