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line noise

line noise
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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [lahyn noiz]
    • /laɪn nɔɪz/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [lahyn noiz]
    • /laɪn nɔɪz/

Definitions of line noise words

  • noun Technical meaning of line noise (communications)   1. Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an EIA-232 serial connection. Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, cosmic rays, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires. 2. Any chunk of data in a file or elsewhere that looks like the results of electrical line noise. 3. Text that is theoretically a readable text or program source but employs syntax so bizarre that it looks like line noise. Yes, there are languages this ugly. The canonical example is TECO, whose input syntax is often said to be indistinguishable from line noise. Other non-WYSIWYG editors, such as Multics "qed" and Unix "ed", in the hands of a real hacker, also qualify easily, as do deliberately obfuscated languages such as INTERCAL. 1
  • noun line noise (computing) Spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link. 0
  • noun line noise (programming) Data that looks random, as when outputting a binary file literally. 0
  • noun line noise (programming, pejorative) Incomprehensible source code or programming language (often due to terseness or overuse of operators). Write-only code or a write-only language. 0
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Parts of speech for Line noise

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line noise popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 92% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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