A.3 Glossary of Terms
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ADPCM | Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation, a new |
| technology improved from PCM, which encodes |
| analog sounds to digital form. |
AMR | AMR (Adaptive |
| compression scheme optimized for speech coding, |
| which is adopted as the standard speech codec by |
| 3GPP. |
Applet | Applets are small Java programs that can be |
| embedded in an HTML page. The rule at the moment |
| is that an applet can only make an Internet connection |
| to the computer form that the applet was sent. |
ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange, |
| it is the standard method for encoding characters as 8- |
| bit sequences of binary numbers, allowing a maximum |
| of 256 characters. |
ARP | Address Resolution Protocol. ARP is a protocol that |
| resides at the TCP/IP Internet layer that delivers data |
| on the same network by translating an IP address to a |
| physical address. |
AVI | Audio Video Interleave, it is a Windows platform audio |
| and video file type, a common format for small movies |
| and videos. |
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