ExpertGlossary terms starting with I

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infliximab A monoclonal antibody that blocks the action of a cytokine called tumor necrosis factor alfa.
inflorescence The flowers of a plant, and the way those flowers are arranged.
Inflow Water (and pollutants) that enter sewage systems through street inlets, roof drains, and similar sources.
Inflow Bands Bands of low clouds, arranged parallel to the low-level winds and moving into or toward a thunderstorm.
Inflow design flood (IDF) The flood used to design and/or modify a specific dam and its appurtenant works; particularly for sizing the spillway and outlet works, and for…
Inflow Jets Local jets of air near the ground flowing inward toward the base of a tornado.
Inflow Notch A radar signature characterized by an indentation in the reflectivity pattern on the inflow side of the storm.
Inflow Stinger A beaver tail cloud with a stinger-like shape.
Influent Wastewater going into the sewage treatment plant.
Influent Seepage Movement of gravity water in the zone of aeration from the ground surface toward the water table.
Influent Stream Any watercourse in which all, or a portion of the surface water flows back into the ground namely the, vadose zone, or zone of aeration.
Influenza See flu.
Influenza Vaccination Pneumonia patients age 50 years and older, hospitalized during October, November, December, January, February or March who were screened for influenza…
INFO A tabular DBMS used by ARC/INFO to store and manipulate feature attribute tables and other related tables.
INFO database The contents of a set of INFO data files, feature attribute tables, and related files stored in each ARC/INFO workspace under a subdirectory named INFO.
infobahn A slang term for The Internet or NII. See National Information Infrastructure.
infobot Synonym droid.
informal application an application that has been filed without one or more of the elements required to receive a filing date.
informal tax legislation process Individuals and interest groups expressing and promoting their opinions about tax legislation.
Informatics See: bioinformatics
Information Accusatory document, filed by a prosecutor, detailing misdemeanor charges against a party.
Information Architecture Designing, categorizing, organizing, and structuring content in a useful and meaningful way.
Information Architecture (IA) A description of the information that is needed to support command and control decision making and battle management, where it comes from, the processing…
Information Assurance Measures that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and…
information bit See user information bit.
information digit(s) A single-digit data element in the 7-digit format that is outpulsed by the network to indicate the numbering plan digit (NPD) and CESID (caller's…
Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) a list of all patents, publications, U.S. applications, or other information submitted for consideration by the Office in a non-provisional patent…
information extraction A type of concept extraction that automatically recognizes significant vocabulary items, such as names, terms, and expressions, in text documents.
information feedback The return of received data to the source, usually for the purpose of checking the accuracy of transmission by comparison with the original data.
information field In data transmission, a field assigned to contain user information. Note: The contents of the information field are not interpreted at the link level.
information flow See Covert Channel [CESG].
information flow control [In COMSEC, a] procedure to ensure that information transfers within an information system (IS) are not made from a higher security level object to an…
information hiding The practice of ensuring that only as much information is revealed about the implementation of a class as is strictly required.
information integrity In a frame-relaying network, the condition when all frames relayed by the network satisfy the frame check sequence check. [After T1.606-1990]
information label The item visible at the POSIX.6/D13.1 interface that is used for associating labeling information with object data.
information label floating The operation whereby one information label is combined with another information label.
information label policy The implementation-defined policy that determines to what degree information labels associated with data are automatically adjusted as data flows through…
information management The application of planning and standards to the creation, use, retrieval, retention, conversion, disposition, and preservation of information resources…
information origination/termination equipment Equipment used to input into or receive output from the telecommunications network. [47 CFR Pt.36-A]
Information Owner Official with statutory or operational authority for specified information and responsibility for establishing the controls for its generation…
information processing Synonym data processing.
information processing center (IPC) A facility staffed and equipped for processing and distributing information. Note: An IPC may be geographically distributed.
information provider A "helper" software component that collects or formats resource information, for use in WS MDS by an aggregator source or by a WSRF service when creating…
information rate For a frame relay logical connection, the average number of end user bits transferred per second, in one direction, across a user-network interface as…
Information Resources Information and related resources, such as personnel, equipment, funds, and information technology.
Information Resources Management The planning, budgeting, organizing, directing, training, promoting, controlling, and management activities associated with the burden, collection…
Information Retrieval The field of science based on sorting or searching through large data sets to find relevant information.
Information Security The protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to…
Information Security (INFOSEC) Those measures and administrative procedures for identifying, controlling, and protecting against unauthorized disclosure of classified information or…
Information Security Policy Aggregate of directives, regulations, rules, and practices that prescribes how an organization manages, protects, and distributes information.
information service A tool that enables Exchange and foreign systems to exchange mail. [Exchange 5.5]
information services See information systems (IS).
Information Sharing The requirements for information sharing by an IT system with one or more other IT systems or applications, for information sharing to support multiple…
information source Synonym source user.
information store An Exchange core component that stores users' mailboxes and folders. See also public information store, private information store. [Exchange 5.5]
Information Store Viewer A tool that shows the properties available for each message, how you can use them, and in what format they appear.
information superhighway Synonym National Information Infrastructure.
information system A system which provides input, storage, processing, communications, output, and control functions in relation to information and data.
Information System Owner Official responsible for the overall procurement, development, integration, modification, or operation and maintenance of an information system.
Information System Owner (or Program Manager) Official responsible for the overall procurement, development, integration, modification, or operation and maintenance of an information system.
Information System Security Officer (ISSO) Individual assigned responsibility by the senior agency information security officer, authorizing official, management official, or information system…
information systems security (INFOSEC and/or ISS) [The] protection of information systems against unauthorized access to or modification of information, whether in storage, processing or transit, and…
Information Technology Any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement…
information technology (IT) The branch of technology devoted to (a) the study and application of data and the processing thereof; i.e.
information technology security evaluation criteria (ITSEC) The European ITSEC represent the harmonized evaluation criteria for secure products and systems for use within the European Community (EC).
information technology systems (IT Systems) Synonymous with EIP Systems (qv) [CESG].
information transfer The process of moving messages containing user information from a source to a sink.
information transfer capability The capability associated with the transfer of different types of information through the ISDN.
information transfer interface Establishment of a communication (signaling) path and any required bearer path between the RPT/RT and the radio port.
information transfer mode The operational mode for transferring (transportation and switching) user information through the ISDN.
information transfer rate The transfer of digital information between two access points or reference points.
Information Type A specific category of information (e.g., privacy, medical, proprietary, financial, investigative, contractor sensitive, security management), defined by…
information-bearer channel A channel capable of transmitting all the information required for communication, such as user data, synchronizing sequences, and control signals.
information-transfer phase In an information-transfer transaction, the phase during which user information blocks are transferred from the source user to a destination user.
information-transfer transaction A coordinated sequence of user and telecommunications system actions that cause information present at a source user to become present at a destination…
informational announcement An audio message that is played when a user first dials in to a Unified Messaging system that describes some temporary condition of interest to all users.
informational value The value of records that derive form the information they contain. See also administrative value, evidential value.
Informe previo a la sentencia Un informe presentado al tribunal por el Departamento de Libertad Vigilada (Department of Probation), el cual contiene información acerca de los…
Informed consent A process in which a person is given important facts about a medical procedure or treatment, a clinical trial, or genetic testing before deciding whether…
INFORMIX A relational database management system to which ARC/INFO has access through the DATABASE INTEGRATOR.
INFOSEC Acronym for information systems security.
INFOTERRA INFOTERRA is an international environmental referral and research network made up of about 175 countries coordinated by the United Nations Environment…
Infra Beneath; below.
Infraction A violation of law not punishable by imprisonment. Minor traffic offenses generally are considered infractions.
Infrared The range of invisible radiation wavelengths from about 700 nm, just longer than red in the visible spectrum, to 1 mm, on the border of the microwave…
Infrared (IR) Electromagnetic radiations of wavelength between the longest visible red (7,000 Angstroms or 7 x 10E4 millimeter) and about 1 millimeter.
Infrared (IR) Electro-Optics Technologies/techniques employed by optical sensors in the wavelength spectrum slightly longer than visible but shorter than radio. 139
Infrared (IR) Radiation Infrared (IR) radiation is electromagnetic radiation whose wavelength is longer than that of visible light, but shorter than microwaves.
infrared brightness temperature (°C) The downwelling atmospheric emission in the 9.9 to 11.4 micrometers band; in general, relatively warmer temperatures imply "thicker" clouds.
infrared coagulation A technique in which abnormal tissue is exposed to a burst of infrared light (a type of radiation).
Infrared Imagery That imagery produced as a result of sensing electromagnetic radiations emitted or reflected from a given target surface in the infrared position of the…
Infrared Radiation Electromagnetic radiation whose wavelengths lie in the range from 0.75 micrometer to 1000 micrometers; invisible long wavelength radiation (heat) capable…
Infrared Satellite Imagery This satellite imagery senses surface and cloud top temperatures by measuring the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation emitted from these objects.
Infrared Sensor A sensor designed to detect the electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength region of 1 to 40 microns.
infrared thermography (IN-fruh-RED ther-MAH-gruh-fee) In medicine, a procedure in which an infrared camera (one that senses heat) is used to measure temperature differences on…
infrastructure An basic underlying framework or features of a system.
Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) A cloud computing service model that delivers computing, storage and network resources to users via the cloud.
infrastructure assurance Preemptive or reactive risk-management techniques designed to increase confidence that disruption of a system will be minimized if its critical…
Infrastructure Management Board (IMB) ACRF management team that manages the overall budget, planning, user request screening, activity implementation, and impact assessments for the ARM…
Infrastructure Master Manages two critical tasks: Update of references from objects in its domain to objects in other domains and update and modification of group members…