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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CSMA/CD Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Detect. The low level network arbitration protocol used on Ethernet. Nodes wait for quiet on the net before starting to transmit and listen while they are transmitting. If two nodes transmit at once the data gets corrupted. The nodes detect this and continue to transmit for a certain length of time to ensure that all nodes detect the collision. The transmitting nodes then wait for a random time before attempting to transmit again thus minimising the chance of another collision. The ability to detect collision during transmission reduces the amount of bandwidth wasted on collisions compared with simple ALOHA broadcasting. (1995-02-23). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CSMACD | English | Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-m-s" | |
-2 letters: cads, cams, dams, macs, mads, scad, scam. | |
-3 letters: ads, cad, cam, dam, mac, mad, mas, sac, sad. | |
-4 letters: ad, am, as, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-m-s" | |
+3 letters: academics. | |
+4 letters: accustomed, cacodemons, camcorders. | |
+5 letters: academicism, democracies, didacticism, disaccustom, succedaneum. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 53 4D 41 43 44 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. ... -- .- -.-. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01010011 01001101 01000001 01000011 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C S M A C D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0053 004D 0041 0043 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)375347353738 |
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