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  1. EWDA Energy and Water Development Appropriations (US).
  2. EWG Event Working Group.
  3. EWN Early Warning Net.
  4. EWO Electronic Warfare Officer.
  5. EWPE Electronic Warfare Pre-Processing Element.
  6. EWR Early Warning Radar.
  7. EWS - early warning system.
  8. Exabyte A unit of 1000 petabytes. See Byte.
  9. Exact Match Match query terms to document words exactly. This will not allow fuzzy matching based on spell check and/or linguistic normalization.
  10. exalted-carrier reception A method of receiving either amplitude- or phase-modulated signals in which method the carrier is separated from the sidebands, filtered and amplified…
  11. Examination Review of a patent application to determine if a claimed invention is patentable. MPEP Introduction.
  12. EXCEDE Electron Accelerator Experiment.
  13. exception the temporary suspension of some essential element of a policy, procedure, or requirement caused by circumstances that are expected to return to normal at…
  14. exception condition In data transmission, the condition assumed by a device when it receives a command that it cannot execute.
  15. exception handler The try statement acts as an exception handler - a place where exception objects are caught and dealt with.
  16. exception handling The way a program responds to an error. The exception handling mechanism in Perl is the eval operator.
  17. excess insertion loss Deprecated term. See insertion loss. Note: Excess insertion loss was used to indicate that, in an optical-fiber coupler, the loss occasioned by dividing…
  18. EXCH50 binary large object A set of properties, generated and managed by Exchange Server, which is stored with each message and contains metadata about a given message.
  19. Exchange An exchange generally occurs when one company acquires another. The shareholders of the acquired company are often given the option to sell their shares…
  20. exchange access In telephone networks, access in which exchange services are provided for originating or terminating interexchange telecommunications within the exchange…
  21. Exchange ActiveSync A Microsoft program that manages synchronization of information, including e-mail, schedules, and application files, between a handheld PC and a desktop…
  22. exchange area A geographic area served by one or more central offices within which local telephone service is furnished under regulation.
  23. exchange authentication information (exchange AI) [10181-2] Information exchanged between a claimant and a verifier during the process of authenticating a principal.
  24. exchange carrier (EC) 1. A carrier authorized to provide telecommunication services within one or more access service areas. [T1.104-1988] 2.
  25. exchange facilities The facilities included within a local access and transport area.
  26. exchange line Synonym subscriber line.
  27. Exchange Management Console The Exchange 2007 graphical user interface (GUI) from which administrators can perform tasks to configure and manage Exchange servers.
  28. Exchange Management Shell A command-line interface and associated command-line plug-ins for Exchange Server that enable automation of administrative tasks.
  29. Exchange Organization Administrators role One of four Exchange 2007 administrator roles. Members of the Exchange Organization Administrators role have full access to all Exchange properties and…
  30. Exchange Profile Update A tool that can be used to update Outlook profiles after mailboxes have been moved across Exchange organizations or administrative groups.
  31. Exchange Recipient Administrators role One of four Exchange 2007 administrator roles. Members of the Exchange Recipient Administrators role have permissions to modify any Exchange property on…
  32. Exchange Server 2007 Setup wizard The wizard for installing Exchange Server 2007. This wizard has a graphical user interface (GUI) that guides an administrator through the installation of…
  33. Exchange Server Administrators role One of four Exchange 2007 administrator roles. Members of the Exchange Server Administrators role have access to only local server Exchange configuration…
  34. Exchange Stress and Performance 2003 A tool that you can use to simulate a large number of client sessions by concurrently accessing one or more protocol servers.
  35. exchange transmission plant This is a combination of (a) exchange cable and wire facilities (b) exchange central office circuit equipment, including associated land and buildings and…
  36. Exchange View-Only Administrators role One of four Exchange 2007 administrator roles. Members of the Exchange View-Only Administrators role have read-only access to the entire Exchange…
  37. Exchange Web Services A set of features that provides a programming interface for accessing Microsoft Exchange data through the Client Access server role by using Web services.
  38. Exchange-enabled object An object in Active Directory that has one or more Exchange-specific attributes enabled. [Exchange 2003]
  39. Excimer A contraction for excited dimer ; a type of lasant . A dimer is a molecule consisting of two atoms. Some dimers (e.g.
  40. Excimer Laser (EXL) A laser in which emission is stimulated when a gas is shocked with electrical energy and the excited medium emits light when returning to a ground state.
  41. exclusion rules See definition for: inclusion/exclusion rules
  42. Exclusive Advertising A contract that allows advertisers to purchase all inventory on a given page or for chosen keywords.
  43. exclusive-or operator The exclusive-or operator (^) is both a boolean operator and a bit manipulation operator.
  44. EXCOM Executive Committee.
  45. Exculpatory Evidence Evidence which tends to show the defendant’s innocence.
  46. exe (or .exe) 1. A filename extension identifying executable code. 2. An identifying extension for a form of self-extracting archive. [Bahorsky]
  47. exec To throw away the current "process"'s program and replace it with another without exiting the process or relinquishing any resources held (apart from the…
  48. executable content An application that runs from within an HTML file. See also applet.
  49. executable file A "file" that is specially marked to tell the "operating system" that it's okay to run this file as a program. Usually shortened to "executable".
  50. Executable Program A program is executable if the PM has adequate near-term approved funding.
  51. Execute To complete; to sign; to carry out according to its terms.
  52. execute bit The special mark that tells the operating system it can run this program. There are actually three execute bits under Unix, and which bit gets used…
  53. Executing Agent The individual within the executing element assigned responsibility for managing MDA funded programs.
  54. Executing Elements Agencies or organizations ( DoD or non- DoD ) that are managing BMD-related programs.
  55. Executing Responsibility Program Manager responsibility.
  56. execution aggregator source An Aggregator Source (included in WS MDS) that executes an administrator-supplied program to collect information and make it available to an Aggregator…
  57. Executive Agency An executive department specified in 5 United States Code (U.S.C.), Sec. 101; a military department specified in 5 U.S.C., Sec.
  58. executive program Synonym supervisory program.
  59. executive state One of several states in which an information system (IS) may operate, and the only one in which certain privileged instructions may be executed.
  60. exempted addressee An organization, activity, or person included in the collective address group of a message and deemed by the message originator as having no need for the…
  61. exemption certificate An X.509 certificate that serves to exempt computers from NAP health checks. Server computers can use exemption certificates to participate in…
  62. Exercise When you act on a buying or selling opportunity that you have been granted under the terms of a contract, you are said to exercise a right.
  63. exercise key [A] key used exclusively to safeguard communications transmitted over the air during military or organized civil training exercises. [INFOSEC-99]
  64. exhaustive attack A trial-and-error attempt to violate computer security by systematically attempting to use a very large number of possible passwords or keys.
  65. EXIPC (fka Epoxy) A queuing layer that allows the Internet Information Server (IIS) and store processes (Inetinfo.exe and Store.
  66. existing quality television Synonym [in ITU-T usage] distribution-quality television.
  67. EXIT External Interface and Test.
  68. Exit Criteria Program specific accomplishments that must be satisfactorily demonstrated before an effort or program can progress further in the current acquisition…
  69. exit status See "status".
  70. EXL Excimer Laser.
  71. Exo Decoy A decoy that matches RV signature exoatmospherically . Exo decoys can use radar and/or optical means to deceive sensors.
  72. Exoatmospheric Outside the Earths atmosphere; generally considered to be altitudes above 100 km.
  73. Exoatmospheric Reentry Vehicle Interceptor Subsystem (ERIS) OBSOLETE. Interceptor designed to provide functional test validation of GBI.
  74. Exoatmospheric Test Bed (XTB) Flight qualified and range integrated vehicle to support other programs such as GBI-X.
  75. exokernel A minimal piece of privileged code, similar to a microkernel but providing a more 'hardware-like' interface to the tasks it manages.
  76. Exolab Core http://www.exolab.org/
  77. Expandable Banner A banner ad that can expand to as large as 468 x 240 pixels after a user clicks on it or after a user moves the cursor over the banner.
  78. expander A device that restores the dynamic range of a compressed signal to its original dynamic range.
  79. Expansion The increase in volume of a soil mass.
  80. expansion adapter The hardware used to extend a computer's control over a peripheral device. The expansion adapter includes the expansion card, expansion slot, and…
  81. expansion capability The inherent limit for increasing the capacity of a system beyond its installed capacity.
  82. expansion card A printed circuit board that plugs into an expansion slot and extends a computer's control over a peripheral device.
  83. expansion slot The slots on the system board in which you insert expansion cards.
  84. Expected Measured Loss (EML) The term "Expected Measured Loss" denotes a calculated loss which specifies the end-to-end 1004-Hz loss on a terminated test connection between two…
  85. expedited data unit In layered systems, a service data unit that is delivered to a peer entity in the destination open system before the delivery of any subsequent service…
  86. experimental station A station utilizing radio waves in experiments with a view to the development of science or technique. This definition does not include amateur stations.
  87. Expert Document Quality page which links to many non-affiliated topical resources. See also: Hilltop: A Search Engine based on Expert Documents
  88. expert system An artificial intelligence application that uses a knowledge base of human expertise to aid in solving problems Note: The problem-solving capability is…
  89. expert system (ES) A computer system that facilitates solving problems in a given field or application by drawing inference from a knowledge base developed from human…
  90. Expert Systems Software programs, which use artificial intelligence techniques to capture and apply the non-algorithmic knowledge and procedures of human experts.
  91. Expired Appropriation An appropriation that is no longer available for new obligation but is still available for disbursement to liquidate existing obligations.
  92. Explain text Text that provides customers with information about the behavior of a Group Policy setting.
  93. EXPLAN Exercise Plan.
  94. explicit congestion message A message generated by the network and sent to the user terminal to indicate a congestion condition. [T1.615-1992]
  95. Explicit Coordination A battle management technique which communicates results, decisions or command from one battle manager to another, usually from a higher command to a…
  96. explicit deny An explicit deny results from a statement that has effect=deny, assuming that any stated conditions are met. Example: Deny all requests from Antarctica.
  97. explicit launch permission An Amazon Machine Image launch permission granted to a specific AWS account.
  98. explicit services Services that can be accessed from an application program, via an API, and are generally provided only when requested [POSIX.0].
  99. exploder Synonym mail exploder.
  100. Exploit Code A program that allows attackers to automatically break into a system.