terminal

1. A device that constitutes a point of termination of a communications circuit or channel, i.e., a transmitter or receiver, also known respectively as a source or sink. 2. In telecommunications, a voice terminal is a telephone set, which can take many forms, including a simple analog rotary dial set, a digital smartphone, a digital softphone, and a cellular telephone. 3. In data communications, a device comprising a keyboard, video adapter, and monitor. A data terminal is a dumb terminal, i.e., it does no independent processing, but relies on the computational resources of a computer to which it is connected over a dedicated circuit or through a network. A data terminal essentially is an input/output (I/O) device. See also DTE and terminal emulation.

• nibble
• NIC (Network Interface Card)
• NID (Network Interface Device)
• Nigerian Connection
• Nigerian Scam
• NII (National Information Infrastructure)
• NIR (National Internet Registry (NIR)
• N-ISDN (Narrowband ISDN)
• NIST
• NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
• NIU (Network Interface Unit)
• NLOS (Non-Line-Of-Sight)
• nm (nanometer)
• NMS (Network Management System)
• NMT 450 (Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 MHz)
• NMT 450 (Nordic Mobile Telephone 450 MHz)
• NMT 900 (Nordic Mobile Telephone 900 MHz)
• NMT 900 (Nordic Mobile Telephone 900 MHz)
• NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone)
• n (nano-)
• NNI (Network-to-Network Interface)
• NN (Network Neutrality)
• NOC (Network Operations Center)
• node
• noise