Technology terms starting with V

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V Volt.
V number Synonym normalized frequency.
V reference point The interface point in an ISDN environment between the line termination and the exchange termination.
V&H Vulnerability and Hardening.
V&V Abbreviation for volume per volume. The relative proportion of each liquid in a mixture.
V-series Recommendations Sets of telecommunications protocols and interfaces defined by CCITT (now ITU-T) Recommendations. Note: Some of the more common V.
v-string A "version" or "vector" "string" specified with a v followed by a series of decimal integers in dot notation, for instance, v1.20.300.4000.
V/STOL Vertical Short Takeoff and Landing [aircraft].
V2P (Virtual to Physical) migration migrating an operating system its applications from a virtual machine or partition to a physical computer without modification.
V2V (Virtual to Virtual) migration migrating an operating system and its applications from a virtual machine or partition hosted in one virtual infrastructure to a virtual machine or…
vacant code (VC) A call-disposition category for a call attempt to an unassigned NPA (numbering plan area) or N. [T1.207-1998]
Vacation Reply This is an email that is automatically sent out from your account whenever an email is received, to the sender of the email.
vaccine program Synonym anti-virus program.
vacuum drying treatment of water-soaked documents by extracting the water under high vacuum to prevent further damage See also freeze drying.
vacuum freeze drying process of stabilizing water-soaked documents by freezing them to prevent further damage from water in its liquid state and subsequently drying them under…
vacuum thermal drying treatment of water-soaked documents by drying under high vacuum and high temperature to prevent further damage See also freeze drying.
VAFB Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA.
Valid Sound and justified; meeting the test of patentability.
Valid Data Element A payload, an associated data string, or a nonce that satisfies the restrictions of the formatting function.
validating parser A parser that ensures that an XML document is valid in addition to being well formed. See also parser.
Validation is the process of performing a set of experiments that establish the efficacy and reliability of a technique or procedure or modification thereof.
validation system The system containing the data base information to be used in validation of the telecommunications charge card or billed number screening data. [T1.
valuation Valuation is the process of estimating the value, or worth, of an asset or investment.
Value In determining the monetary equivalent for assets and gifts, value is a good faith estimate of the fair market value if the exact value is neither known…
value attribute table (VAT) Value attribute table. A table containing attributes for a grid. In addition to user-defined attributes, the VAT contains the values assigned to cells in…
value date The date the transfer entry to an account is considered effective; either the day the instruction is received or some future date as stipulated by the…
value partition An ontology design pattern. more definition required
value-added carrier A company that sells the services of a value-added network.
value-added network (VAN) A network using the communication services of other commercial carriers, using hardware and software that permit enhanced telecommunication services to be…
value-binding expression A JavaServer Faces EL expression that refers to a property of a backing bean. A component tag uses this expression to bind the associated component's…
VAMOSC Visibility and Management of O&S Costs.
VAN Acronym for value-added network.
Vanderpool A code name for Intel's version of virtualization assist, included in some 64-bit Intel processors. See Virtualization Technology.
VAR Visitor Access Request.
Variability The manner in which the probability of damage to a specific target decreases with the distance from ground zero; or, in damage assessment, a mathematical…
variable An item of data named by an identifier. Each variable has a type, such as int or Object, and a scope.
variable declaration The association of a variable with a particular type. It is important to make a distinction between the declaration of variables of primitive types and…
variable interpolation The "interpolation" of a scalar or array variable into a string.
variable length buffer A buffer into which data may be entered at one rate and removed at another rate without changing the data sequence.
variable slope delta modulation See continuously variable slope delta modulation.
variadic Said of a "function" that happily receives an indeterminate number of "actual arguments".
Variance A special exemption of a zoning law to allow the property to be used in a manner different from an existing law.
variant An individual that is genetically distinct from others in the population.
variant of a key A new key formed by a nonsecret process with the original key, such that one or more of the nonparity bits of the new key differ from the corresponding…
variation monitor In ac power distribution, a device for sensing deviations of any measured variable, such as voltage, current, or frequency, and capable of initiating a…
Variations (linguistic) Linguistic variations include different spelling variations for the same words. This is typically language specific related to e.g. country differences.
vars Abbreviation for volt-amperes reactive.
vault A fire-resistive enclosure used entirely for storing particularly valuable holdings or material with special preservation needs
vaulting Storing records in a completely fire-resistive enclosure to be used exclusively for storage.
VBO Vertical Burn-Out (velocity).
VC Abbreviation for virtual circuit.
vCard The Internet standard for creating and sharing virtual business cards.
VCC Voice Communications Circuit.
VCI (Virtual Channel Identifier) A unique numerical tag defined by a 16-bit field in the ATM cell header that identifies a virtual channel over which the cell is to travel.
VCJCS Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
VCR Abbreviation for video cassette recorder. See video recorder.
VCRM Verification Cross Reference Matrix.
VCS Voice Communications System.
VDC Volts Direct Current.
VDD Version Description Document.
VDS (Virtual Disk Service) VDS is a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that provides a single interface for managing disks in Windows Server 2003 operating systems.
VDU Visual Display Unit.
VE Value Engineering.
VECP Value Engineering Change Proposal.
vector any living creature that transmits an infectious agent to humans.
vector processor Synonym array processor.
Vector product format (VPF) a digital geographic vector-based format used by the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency for the distribution of its vector data sets.
Vector Property Map (VPM) It is the product of the digital Coordinate Geometry entered property lines for the District of Columbia.
Vector relational format (VRF) A relational model-based format very similar to the DMA VPF (Defense Mapping Agency Vector Product Format).
Vectors Vectors are a kind of document signature (word-weight pairs) representing a document's content in a way that allows comparison between documents.
velocity of propagation Of an electrical or electromagnetic signal, its speed in a physical medium such as a coaxial cable or optical fiber.
Verification To confirm the truth or correctness of something. Vitreous humor – The ocular fluid (from within the eye) that is often used as a sample for testing in…
verification authentication information (verification AI) Information used by a verifier to verify an identity claimed through exchange AI [10181-2].
verification certificate A certificate that represents the public-key portion of a token-signing certificate.
Verification Rate A statistic used to measure biometric performance when operating in the verification task. The rate at which legitimate end-users are correctly verified.
verified development Development of a system or part of a system where the transformation from one representation to another is mathematically proven, or demonstrated to be…
Verified Name A subscriber name that has been verified by identity proofing.
verified off-hook In telephone systems, a service provided by a unit that is inserted on each end of a transmission circuit for the purpose of verifying supervisory signals…
Verifier An entity that verifies the claimants identity by verifying the claimants possession of a token using an authentication protocol.
Verifier Impersonation Attack An attack where the attacker impersonates the verifier in an authentication protocol, usually to learn a password.
Vernam cypher An extremely secure cryptographic approach to enciphering messages, wherein each character of a message gets assigned a random character from the key; the…
version history The (reverse) chronological listing of revisions that have been made to an item, and any associated comments attached to the version by the user…
version label A number or other text that indicates the version of an item.
versioning Document and picture versioning creates a backup copy of a file whenever it is saved to the library.
vertex One of a set of ordered x,y coordinates that constitutes a line.
vertex angle In an optical fiber, the angle formed by the extreme bound meridional rays accepted by the fiber, or emerging from it, equal to twice the acceptance…
Vertical Cloud A cloud computing environment optimized for use in a particular vertical -- i.e., industry -- or application use case.
vertical filing File system in which files are accessed from front to back or from side to side Note: Also used to describe furniture built to support this type of file…
vertical portal A Web search engine that locates very precisely a few Web pages of particular interest according to the character strings or subject entered as the search…
vertical redundancy check (VRC) Synonym transverse redundancy check.
Vertical Scaling See Scale Up.
Vertical Search A search service which is focused on a particular field, a particular type of information, or a particular information format. For example, Business.
Very High Frequency (VHF) Frequencies from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. See electromagnetic spectrum.
Very Low Frequency (VLF) That portion of the radio frequency spectrum from 3 to 30 kHz
VESA Video Electronics Standards Association.
vestigial sideband (VSB) transmission Modified AM transmission in which one sideband, the carrier, and only a portion of the other sideband are transmitted.
VF Abbreviation for voice frequency.
VF patch bay See voice frequency primary patch bay.
VFCT Abbreviation for voice frequency carrier telegraph. See voice-frequency telegraph.
VFCTG Abbreviation for voice-frequency carrier telegraph. See voice-frequency telegraph.