Technology terms starting with I

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inactive signaling link A signaling link that has been deactivated and cannot therefore carry signaling traffic. [T1.110-1987]
Iname Individual Name.
Inappropriate Usage A person who violates acceptable computing use policies.
inbound host The host computer that provides a newsfeed. [Exchange 5.5]
Inbound Link A hypertext link to a particular page from elsewhere, bringing traffic to that page. Inbound links are counted to produce a measure of the page popularity.
Inbound links (IBL) Links that point to your site from sites other than your own. Inbound links are an important asset that will improve your site's PageRank (PR).
inbound recipient filtering A recipient filter that reduces unsolicited e-mail by filtering inbound information based on the recipient, and applicable only to e-mail messages sent by…
INC Industry Numbering Committee, a standing committee of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) that provides an open forum to address…
Incident A violation or imminent threat of violation of computer security policies, acceptable use policies, or standard computer security practices.
Incident Handling The mitigation of violations of security policies and recommended practices.
Incident management Executing a defensive response when a network’s security is threatened.
Incident Response Plan The documentation of a predetermined set of instructions or procedures to detect, respond to, and limit consequences of a malicious cyber attacks against…
incidental-radiation device A device that radiates radio frequency energy during the course of its operation although the device is not intentionally designed to generate radio…
INCITS (International Committee for Information Technology Standards) Organization that promotes the effective use of information and communication technology through standardization in a way that balances the interests of…
Inclination The inclination of an orbit is the (dihedral) angle between the plane containing the orbit and the plane containing the earths equator.
inclination of an orbit (of an Earth satellite) The angle determined by the plane containing the orbit and the plane of the Earth's equator. [NTIA] [RR]
inclined orbit Any nonequatorial orbit of a satellite. Note: Inclined orbits may be circular or elliptical, synchronous or asynchronous, and direct or retrograde.
inclusion A foreign object present within, for example, an optical fiber or a crystal.
inclusion/exclusion rules Rules that determine what content should be included or excluded when specific sites are crawled. See also: crawl
incoherent In optics, characterized by a degree of coherence significantly less than 0.88.
incoming access The ability of a user to terminate data calls via an ISDN. [T1.615-1992]
incoming call identification (ICI) A switching system feature that allows an attendant to identify visually the type of service or trunk group associated with a call directed to the…
Incomparable left
inconsistent state A state that an object should not be in. A class needs to be carefully designed in order to ensure that none of its instances can get into an inconsistent…
incorrect block A block successfully delivered to the intended destination user, but having one or more incorrect bits, additions, or deletions, in the delivered block.
increment To increase the value of something by 1 (or by some other number, if so specified).
increment chain A series of incremental backups of the same path.
increment operator An operator (++) that adds one to its operand. It has two forms: pre-increment (++x) and post-increment (x++).
incremental compaction Data compaction accomplished by specifying only the initial value and all subsequent changes.
Incremental Funding The provision (or recording) of budgetary resources for a program or project based on obligations estimated to be incurred within a fiscal year when such…
Incremental indexing Incremental indexing enables an efficient combination of freshness and scalability in a search node.
incremental phase modulation (IPM) In spread-spectrum systems, phase modulation in which one binary code sequence is shifted with respect to another, usually to conduct a synchronizing…
Inculpatory Evidence Evidence which tends to show the defendant’s guilt.
indefinite call sign A call sign that represents a group of facilities, commands, authorities, activities, or units rather than one of these. 2.
independent clocks In communication network timing subsystems, free-running precision clocks used, for synchronization purposes, at the nodes.
Independent Cost Analysis An analysis of program cost estimates conducted by an impartial body disassociated from the management of the program.
Independent Cost Estimate (ICE) A cost estimate prepared by an impartial body outside the chain of authority responsible for acquiring or using the goods or services.
Independent Evaluation Report (IER) Documents the independent evaluation of the system and is based on test data, reports, studies, and simulations.
Independent Research and Development (IR&D) Effort by industry that is not sponsored by, or required in performance of, a contract and which consists of projects falling within the areas of basic…
independent security domains Two security domains are independent if and only if: - they are administered by different administrations, and - no dependency relationship exists between…
Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Verification and validation performed by a contractor or Government agency that is not responsible for developing the product or performing the activity…
Independent Virtual Disk Independent virtual disks are not included in snapshots. Independent virtual disks can in turn be either Persistent or Nonpersistent.
independent-sideband (ISB) transmission Double-sideband transmission in which the information carried by each sideband is different. Note: The carrier may be suppressed.
Index Statistical measure of the state of the stock market or economy based on the performance of stocks or other components.
index coverage The polygon coverage that describes, and is used as a spatial index for, the tile structure of a layer.
index dip In an optical fiber, an undesired decrease in the refractive index at the center of the core.
index of cooperation In facsimile, the product of the total line length and the number of lines per unit length, divided by . 2.
index of refraction Synonym refractive index.
Index profile The configuration file that defines the schema for a searchable index. This includes fields and properties of the index, similar to an XML schema, but…
index queue A list of requests for index reorganization or requests for index refresh to be processed.
index refresh The process of adding new information to an existing index in an enterprise search system. Contrast with index reorganization.
index reorganization The process of building the index in an enterprise search system. Contrast with index refresh.
Index Service An aggregator service in WS MDS that serves as a registry similar to UDDI, but much more flexible.
index workspace A workspace that manages only content sources.
Index-based security The resolution of a repository's document ACL permissions at query time by the index itself through the use of stored meta-data.
index-matching gel Synonym gel.
index-matching material A substance, usually a liquid, cement (adhesive), or gel, which has an index of refraction that closely approximates that of an optical fiber, and is used…
indexing Universal term for Coding and Data Entry.
Indexing latency The time from when a document is added to the search system to when the document is included in the searchable index.
Indication In medicine, a sign, symptom, or medical condition that leads to the recommendation of a treatment, test, or procedure.
Indifferent User An individual who knows his/her biometric sample is being collected and does not attempt to help or hinder the collection of the sample.
indirect access A method of access to records requiring prior use of an external index See also direct access.
indirect control In digital data transmission, the use of a clock rate of 2n times the modulation rate, where n is an integer greater than one.
indirect entry A principle of indexing wherein headings are incorporated under a hierarchical structure leading from broad to specific concepts See also direct entry and…
indirect filehandle An "expression" that evaluates to something that can be used as a "filehandle": a "string" (filehandle name), a "typeglob", a typeglob "reference", or a…
indirect object In English grammar, a short noun phrase between a verb and its direct object indicating the beneficiary or recipient of the action.
indirect object slot The syntactic position falling between a method call and its arguments when using the indirect object invocation syntax.
indirect recursion Recursion that results from method Y calling method X, when an existing call from X to Y is still in progress.
indirect wave A wave, such as a radio wave or sound wave, that arrives at a given point by reflection or scattering from surrounding objects, rather than directly from…
indirection If something in a program isn't the value you're looking for but indicates where the value is, that's indirection.
Indium Antimonide Infrared sensing material.
Individual An object or instance of a class.
Individual Acceptance Test A test of predetermined critical items to verify their operational characteristics prior to assembly into subsystems.
individual line A line that connects a single user to a switching center.
individual reception (in the broadcasting-satellite service) The reception of emissions from a space station in the broadcasting-satellite service by simple domestic installations and in particular those possessing…
Individuals Instances of classes; properties may be used to relate individuals to each other.
Induced Environments Induced environments are defined at the system level as the disturbances in the natural environments caused by BMD system influences on other BMD assets…
Induced Radioactivity Radioactivity that is created by bombarding a substance with neutrons in a reactor or with charged particles produced by particle accelerators.
inductive coupling The transfer of energy from one circuit to another by virtue of the mutual inductance between the circuits.
Industrial Resource Analysis (IRA) A quick-turnaround or a detailed analysis of industrial and/or specific factory capabilities to determine the availability of production resources…
industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) applications (of radio frequency energy) Operation of equipment or appliances designed to generate and use locally radio-frequency energy for industrial, scientific, medical, domestic or similar…
industry standard A voluntary, industry-developed document that establishes requirements for products, practices, or operations.
industry standard architecture See x86 architecture.
Inertial Guidance A guidance system designed to project a missile over a predetermined path, wherein the path of the missile is adjusted after launching by devices wholly…
Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) A guidance mechanism designed to project a missile over a predetermined path, wherein the path of the missile is adjusted after launching by devices…
InetOrgPerson An Active Directory object that is similar to the Windows user object, but has extended attributes to improve compatibility with directory services that…
INETS Integrated Effects Tests for Survivability.
INEWS Integrated Electronic Warfare System (Navy term).
INF Intermediate-range Nuclear Force (Treaty term). Also the name of U.S./USSR Treaty.
Inference Process of deriving a conclusion from premises; in semantic web it is performed by a reasoner software and is used to extract explicit knowledge from…
inferred hierarchy The class hierarchy constructed by or inferred by a resonaer; as opposed to the asserted hierarchy that is manually created by the author of an ontology.
InfiniBand InfiniBand is the next generation switch fabric architecture that enables increased network bandwidth (10Gbps), redundant connectivity support, shared…
infinite loop A loop whose termination test never evaluates to false. Sometimes this is a deliberate act on the part of the programmer, using a construct such as…
infinite recursion Recursion that does not terminate. This can result from any of direct recursion, indirect recursion or mutual recursion.
infix An "operator" that comes in between its operands, such as multiplication in 24 * 7.
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.
Information Accusatory document, filed by a prosecutor, detailing misdemeanor charges against a party.