1) Voting
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[computer science] Polling, or polled operation, in computer science, refers to actively sampling the status of an external device by a client program as a synchronous activity. Polling is most often used in terms of input/output (I/O), and is also referred to as polled I/O or software-driven I/O. Polling is sometimes used synonymously with...
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• (n.) The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges. • (n.) The act of voting, or of registering a vote. • (n.) Plunder, or extortion. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Poll
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Procedure for collecting data from meter panel homes, usually by means of a telephone call from the central processing base of the data supplier, which downloads in the early hours of the morning meter data from the previous broadcast day(s) via a modem connection with the central meter data storage unit in the home. Alternative cellular radio or o...
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(from the article `telecommunications network`) A variation of TDMA is the process of polling, in which a central controller asks each node in turn if it requires channel access, and a node ...
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interrogation, usually sequential and possibly cyclic, of stations of a telecommunication network by a central station, so that those which have messages to be sent, can send immediately or signal their need NOTE - This concept is applicable to mobile radio networks and also to other types of telecommunication networks such as data transmission net...
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the process whereby data sources are invited, one at a time, to transmit
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the process whereby data stations are invited one at a time to transmit
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A means of controlling devices on multi-point line. Usually utilized to send/receive information via modem from remote computers to a central computer.
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Poll'ing noun [ See
Poll the head.]
1. The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.
2. Plunder, or extortion. [ Obsolete]
E. Hall. 3. The act of voting, or of registering a vote.
Polling booth ,
a temporary structure where the votin...
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A control message sent from a master terminal to a slave terminal as an invitation for the slave to transmit.
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A means of Media Access Control where a device may only transmit information when it is given permission to transmit by a controller device.
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