textphone

In Europe, a printing telegraph service widely used by those with hearing or speech impair-

ments. Also generically known as TTY (TeleTYpewriter) and TDD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf) in the United States, and minicom in the United Kingdom. See also telegraph and teletype.

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• BIP (Bit Interleaved Parity)
• biphase coding
• bipolar
• bipolar coding
• bipolar violation (BPV)
• bipolar with eight-zeros substitution (B8ZS)
• bis
• B-ISDN (Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network)
• Bisync (Binary Synchronous Protocol)
• Bisync (Binary Synchronous Protocol)
• bit (binary digit)
• bit (binary digit)
• bit compression multiplexer (BCM)
• bit density
• bit error rate (BER)
• bit interleaved parity (BIP)
• bit map
• bit-oriented protocol
• bit rate
• bit robbing
• bit/s
• bits per second (bps)
• bit stream
• bit stuffing
• bit time