scattering

The deflection of a beam of radiant energy as it encounters physical matter in a medium. See

also Rayleigh scattering.

• coupling loss
• Coy, George W.
• CPE (Customer Premises Equipment)
• CPIM (Common Profile for Instant Messaging)
• cps (chips per second)
• CPU (Central Processing Unit)
• cracker
• CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check)
• CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check)
• critical angle
• critical angle
• crossbar
• cross-connect
• crossreed
• cross-talk
• crosstalk (XT)
• CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission)
• cryptography
• cryptology
• crystal oscillator (XO)
• CSA (Carrier Serving Area)
• CS-ACELP (Conjugate Structure-Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction)
• CSA International
• CS (Convergence Sublayer)
• CSD (Circuit-Switched Data)