dispersion (D)

1. The process by which light rays are distorted, scattered, or redirected differently depending on their wavelength. 2. Specifically, the effect of different propagation speeds for different wavelengths of light. See also chromatic dispersion, material dispersion, modal dispersion, polarization mode dispersion, propagation, pulse dispersion, waveguide dispersion, and wavelength.

• Table R-2: Coaxial Cable Types
• Table S-1: SDTV Scanning Formats
• Table S-2: SONET/SDH Signal Hierarchy
• Table T-1: North American Digital Hierarchy: T-carrier
• Table T-2: TCP/IP Protocol Suite
• Table V-1: Electromagnetic Signal Propagation Velocity (Approximate)
• Table V-2: Vertical Redundancy Check (VRC)
• Table V-3: Selected ITU-T V-Series Recommendations
• Table W-1: ITU-T Transmission Windows
• Table X-1: DSL Technology Comparisons
• Table X-2: ITU-T X Series Recommendation Groups
• Table X-3: Select X Series Recommendations
• TACS (Total Access Communications System)
• Tagged Image File Format-Fax (TIFF-F)
• Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
• tail circuit
• talk battery
• talk path
• tandem switch
• tap
• TAPI (Telephony Application Programming Interface)
• taps
• tariff
• TASI (Time-Assignment Speech Interpolation)
• TA (Terminal Adapter)