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 Talk Talk - Communication terms
Category: General technical and industrial
Date & country: 28/05/2010, UK
Words: 18630


antenna
(communications) In radio and television, another name for aerial

antiparticle
In nuclear physics, a particle corresponding in mass and properties to a given elementary particle but with the opposite electrical charge, magnetic properties, or coupling to other fundamental forces. For example, an electron carries a negative charge whereas its antiparticle, the positron, carries a positive one. When a particle and its antiparti...

antivivisection
Opposition to vivisection, that is, experiments on living animals, which is practised in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries on the grounds that it may result in discoveries of importance to medical science. Antivivisectionists argue that it is immoral to inflict pain on helpless creatures, and that it is unscientific because results achiev...

Antarctic Territory, British
British dependent territory created in 1961 and comprising all British territories south of latitude 60° south and between 20° and 80° west longitude, including the South Orkney Islands, the South Shetland Islands, the Antarctic Peninsula and all adjacent lands, and Coats Land, extending to the South Pole; total land area 1,810,0...

anxiety
Unpleasant, distressing emotion usually to be distinguished from fear. Fear is aroused by the perception of actual or threatened danger; anxiety arises when the danger is imagined or cannot be identified or clearly perceived. It is a normal response in stressful situations, but is frequently experienced in many mental disorders. Anxiety is expe...

Antonello da Messina
Italian painter. He was a pioneer in his country of the technique of oil painting developed by Flemish artists; he acquired his knowledge of it in Naples, or, if the historian Vasari is to be believed, he may have learnt it from Jan van Eyck himself. Flemish influence is reflected in his brushwork, his use of light, and sometimes in his imagery...

Andropov, Yuri
Soviet communist politician, president of the USSR 1983–84. As chief of the KGB 1967–82, he established a reputation for efficiently suppressing dissent. Andropov was politically active from the 1930s. His part in quelling the Hungarian national uprising of 1956, when he was Soviet ambassador, brought him into the Communist Party secretar...

anthem
In music, a short, usually elaborate, religious choral composition, sometimes accompanied by the organ; also a song of loyalty or devotion. Composers of anthems include William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Purcell, John Blow, and George Frideric Handel

anaconda
South American snake Eunectes murinus, a member of the python and boa family, the Boidae. One of the largest snakes, growing to 9 m/30 ft or more, it is found in and near water, where it lies in wait for the birds and animals on which it feeds. The anaconda is not venomous, but...

anchovy
Small fish Engraulis encrasicholus of the herring family. It is fished extensively, being abundant in the Mediterranean, and is also found on the Atlantic coast of Europe and in the Black Sea. It grows to 20 cm/8 in. Pungently flavoured, it is processed into fish pastes and essences, and used as a garnish, rather than eaten f...

angelfish
Any of a number of unrelated fishes. The freshwater angelfish, genus Pterophyllum, of South America, is a tall, side-to-side flattened fish with a striped body, up to 26 cm/10 in long, but usually smaller in captivity. The angelfish or monkfish of the genus Squatina is a bottom-living shark up t...

angler
Any of an order of fishes Lophiiformes, with flattened body and broad head and jaws. Many species have small, plantlike tufts on their skin. These act as camouflage for the fish as it waits, either floating among seaweed or lying on the sea bottom, twitching the enlarged tip of the threadlike first r...

annelid
Any segmented worm of the phylum Annelida. Annelids include earthworms, leeches, and marine worms such as lugworms. They have a distinct head and soft body, which is divided into a number of similar segments shut off from one another internally by membranous partitions, but there are no jointed appen...

ant
Insect belonging to the family Formicidae, and to the same order (Hymenoptera) as bees and wasps. Ants are characterized by a conspicuous waist and elbowed antennae. About 10,000 different species are known; all are social in habit, and all construct nests of various kinds. Ants are found in all parts of the world, except the polar regions. It ...

ant lion
Larva of one of the insects of the family Myrmeleontidae, order Neuroptera, which traps ants by waiting at the bottom of a pit dug in loose, sandy soil. Ant lions are mainly tropical, but also occur in parts of Europe, where there are more than 40 species, and in the USA, where they are called doodle...

anteater
Mammal of the family Myrmecophagidae, order Edentata, native to Mexico, Central America, and tropical South America. The anteater lives almost entirely on ants and termites. It has toothless jaws, an extensile tongue, and claws for breaking into the nests of its prey. Species include the giant anteat...

antelope
Click images to enlargeAny of numerous kinds of even-toed, hoofed mammals belonging to the cow family, Bovidae. Most antelopes are lightly built and good runners. They are grazers or browsers, and chew the cud. They range in size from the dik-diks and duikers, only 30 cm/1 ft high, to the eland, which can be 1...

anemone
Click images to enlargeFlowering plant belonging to the buttercup family, found in northern temperate regions, mainly in woodland. It has sepals which are coloured to attract insects. (Genus Anemone, family Ranunculaceae.) The garden anemone (Anemone coronaria) is blue, purple, red, o...

Andorra
Landlocked country in the east Pyrenees, bounded north by France and south by Spain. Government Under the 1993 constitution, Andorra is an independent, democratic, multiparty `parliamentary` co-principality, with full sovereignty in the hands of the people, but with Spanish and French c...

Angola
Country in southwest Africa, bounded west by the Atlantic Ocean, north and northeast by the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), east by Zambia, and south by Namibia. The Cabinda enclave, a district of Angola, is bounded west by the Atlantic Ocean, north by the Congo River, and east and south by the Democratic Republic of Congo. Governmen...

Antigua and Barbuda
Country comprising three islands in the eastern Caribbean (Antigua, Barbuda, and uninhabited Redonda). Government Antigua and Barbuda is an independent sovereign nation within the Commonwealth, with a multiparty parliamentary democracy but with the British monarch as head of state. The constitution dates from independence in 1981. The British monar...

Angelou, Maya
US writer and black activist. She became noted for her powerful autobiographical works, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970) and its five sequels up to A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002). Based on her traumatic childhood, they tell of the struggles towards physical and spiritual liberation of a black woman from...

antimony
Silver-white, brittle, semimetallic element (a metalloid), atomic number 51, relative atomic mass 121.75. Its chemical symbol comes from Latin stibium. It occurs chiefly as the ore stibnite, and is used to make alloys harder; it is also used in photosensitive substances in colour photography, optical electronics, fireproo...

Angevin
Term used to describe the English kings Henry II and Richard I (also known, with the later English kings up to Richard III, as the Plantagenets). Angevin derives from Anjou, a region in northwestern France. The Angevin Empire comprised the territories (including England) that belonged to the Anjou dynasty

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
A history of England from the Roman invasion to the 11th century, consisting of a series of chronicles written in Old English by monks, begun in the 9th century (during the reign of King Alfred), and continuing until 1154. The Chronicle, comprising seven different manuscripts, forms a unique record of early English history and also of the developme...

ANC
Abbreviation for African National Congress, a South African political party and former nationalist organization

angling
Fishing with rod and line. It is widespread and ancient in origin, fish hooks having been found in prehistoric cave dwellings. Competition angling exists and world championships take place for most branches of the sport. The oldest is the World Freshwater Championship, inaugurated in 1957. Freshwater fishing embraces coarse fishing, in which member...

Anabaptist
Member of any of various 16th-century radical Protestant sects. They believed in adult rather than child baptism, and sought to establish utopian communities. Anabaptist groups spread rapidly in northern Europe, particularly in Germany, and were widely persecuted. Notable Anabaptists included those in Moravia (the Hutterites) and Thomas Mü...

Anglo-Irish Agreement
Concord reached in 1985 between the UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish prime minister Garret FitzGerald. One sign of the improved relations between the two countries was increased cooperation between police and security forces across the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The pact also gave the Irish Republic a ...

andante
In music, a tempo marking indicating the music to be performed at a walking pace; that is, at a moderately slow tempo

anthropomorphism
The attribution of human characteristics to animals, inanimate objects, or deities. It appears in the mythologies of many cultures and as a literary device in fables and allegories. See also personification

Antiochus I
King of Syria from 281 BC, son of Seleucus I, one of the generals of Alexander the Great. He earned the title of Antiochus Soter, or Saviour, by his defeat of the Gauls in Galatia in 276 BC

Antiochus IV
(of Syria) King of Syria from 175 BC, known as Antiochus Epiphanes, the Illustrious, son of Antiochus III. He occupied Jerusalem about 170 BC, seizing much of the Temple treasure, and instituted worship of the Greek type in the Temple in an attempt to eradicate Judaism. This produced the revol...

Antiochus VII
King of Syria from 138 BC. The last strong ruler of the Seleucid dynasty, he took Jerusalem in 134 BC, reducing the Maccabees to subjection. He was defeated and killed in battle against the Parthians

Antiochus XIII
King of Syria 69–65 BC, the last of the Seleucid dynasty. During his reign Syria was made a Roman province by Pompey the Great

antihistamine
Any substance that counteracts the effects of histamine. Antihistamines may occur naturally or they may be synthesized. H1 antihistamines are used to relieve allergies, alleviating symptoms such as runny nose, itching, swelling, or asthma. H2 antihistamines suppress acid production by the stomach, and a...

antitussive
Any substance administered to suppress a cough. Coughing, however, is an important reflex in clearing secretions from the airways; its suppression is usually unnecessary and possibly harmful, unless damage is being done to tissue during excessive coughing spasms

anorexia
Lack of desire to eat, or refusal to eat, especially the pathological condition of anorexia nervosa, most often found in adolescent girls and young women. Compulsive eating, or bulimia, distortions of body image, and depression often accompany anorexia. The causes of anorexia nervosa are not known. It is characterized by severe self-imposed res...

anabolism
Process of building up body tissue, promoted by the influence of certain hormones. It is the constructive side of metabolism, as opposed to catabolism

aneurysm
Weakening in the wall of an artery, causing it to balloon outwards with the risk of rupture and serious, often fatal, blood loss. If detected in time, some accessible aneurysms can be repaired by bypass surgery, but such major surgery carries a high risk for patients in poor health

antipope
Rival claimant to the elected pope for the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church, for instance in the Great Schism 1378–1417 when there were rival popes in Rome and Avignon

Angad
Indian religious leader; second guru (teacher) of Sikhism 1539–52, succeeding Nanak. He popularized the Punjabi alphabet known as Gurmukhi, in which the Sikh scriptures are written. Angad gathered together the writings and hymns of Nanak, compiling them in Gurmukhi, and organized schools to teach people to read and write in Gurmukhi script...

angiosperm
Flowering plant in which the seeds are enclosed within an ovary, which ripens into a fruit. Angiosperms are divided into monocotyledons (single seed leaf in the embryo) and dicotyledons (two seed leaves in the embryo). They include the majority of flowers, herbs, grasses, and trees except conifers. There are over 250,000 different species of angios...

Anglo-Saxon art
English art from the late 5th century to the 11th century. Sculpted crosses and ivories, manuscript painting, and gold and enamel jewellery survive, demonstrating a love of intricate, interwoven designs. The relics of the Sutton Hoo ship burial (7th century) and the Lindisfarne Gospels (about 690; British Museum, London) have...

angel dust
Popular name for the anaesthetic phencyclidine, a depressant drug

Antarctic Treaty
International agreement between 13 nations aiming to promote scientific research and keep Antarctica free from conflict, dating from 1961. In 1991 a 50-year ban on mining activity was secured. An environmental protection protocol, addressing the issues of wildlife conservation, mineral exploitation, and marine pollution, came into effect in Jan...

Anti-Corn Law League
An extra-parliamentary pressure group formed in the UK in September 1838 by Manchester industrialists, and led by Liberals Richard Cobden and John Bright. It argued for free trade and campaigned successfully against duties on the import of foreign corn to Britain imposed by the Corn Laws, which were repealed in 1846

Antalya
Mediterranean port on the west coast of Turkey and capital of a province of the same name; population (2000) 603,200. The port trades in grain and timber. Industries include canning and flour milling. It is a popular coastal resort. Founded in the 2nd century BC, it has two Roman amphitheatres and the ruins of Perga nearby. It flourished under ...

angstrom
Unit of length equal to 10-10 metres or one-ten-millionth of a millimetre, used for atomic measurements and the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. It is named after the Swedish scientist Anders Ångström

anemometer
Device for measuring wind speed and liquid flow. The most basic form, the cup-type anemometer, consists of cups at the ends of arms, which rotate when the wind blows. The speed of rotation indicates the wind speed. Vane-type anemometers have vanes, like a small windmill or propeller, that rotate when the wind blows. Pressure-tube anemom...

annihilation
In nuclear physics, a process in which a particle and its `mirror image` particle called an antiparticle collide and disappear, with the creation of a burst of energy. The energy created is equivalent to the mass of the colliding particles in accordance with the mass–energy equation. For example, an electron and a positron annihilate...

anti-oxidant
Any substance that prevents deterioration of fats, oils, paints, plastics, and rubbers by oxidation. When used as food additives, anti-oxidants prevent fats and oils from becoming rancid when exposed to air, and thus extend their shelf life. Vegetable oils contain natural anti-oxidants, such as vitamin E, which prevent spoilage, but anti...

anhydrous
Of a chemical compound, containing no water. If the water of crystallization is removed from blue crystals of copper(II) sulphate, a white powder (anhydrous copper sulphate) results. Liquids from which all traces of water have been removed are also described as being anhydrous

anhydride
Chemical compound obtained by the removal of water from another compound; usually a dehydrated acid. For example, sulphur(VI) oxide (sulphur trioxide, SO3) is the anhydride of sulphuric acid (H2SO4). For monobasic acids, such as carboxylic acids, the formation of an anhydride ...

antiphony
Music exploiting directional and canonic opposition of widely spaced choirs or groups of instruments to create perspectives in sound. It was developed in 17th-century Venice by Giovanni Gabrieli and in Germany by his pupil Heinrich Schütz and Roland de Lassus; an example is the double-choir motet Alma Redemptoris Mater<...

Angel Falls
Waterfall on the River Caroní, a tributary of the Orinoco in the tropical rainforest of Bolívar Region, southeast Venezuela. It is the highest continuous cataract in the world with a total height of 978 m/3,210 ft. The falls plunge from the lip of the Auyán–Tepúplateau (Guinana Highlands). They were named after the avia...

Andrews, Julie
English-born US actor and singer. She was the original Eliza Doolittle in the Broadway production of Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady (1956), and also appeared in their Camelot (1960). She is particularly associated with the hit film The Sound of Music (1965). A child performer...

Andean Indian
Any indigenous inhabitant of the Andes range in South America, stretching from Ecuador to Peru to Chile, and including both the coast and the highlands. Many Andean civilizations developed in this region from local fishing-hunting-farming societies, all of which predated the Inca, who consoli...

antigen
Any substance that causes the production of antibodies by the body's immune system. Common antigens include the proteins carried on the surface of bacteria, viruses, and pollen grains. The proteins of incompatible blood groups or tissues also act as antigens, which has to be taken into account in medical procedures such as blood transfusions an...

anus
Opening at the end of the alimentary canal which allows undigested foods and other waste materials to pass out of the body in the form of faeces. In humans the term is also used to describe the last 4 cm/1.5 in of the alimentary canal. It is normally kept closed by a ring of muscle called a sphincter. A common medical condition in humans associ...

antagonistic muscles
In the body, a pair of muscles working together to allow coordinated movement of the skeletal joints. Muscles can only exert a force and do work by contracting. An example is the antagonistic pair of muscles used in bending and straightening the arm. To bend the arm requires one set of muscles –...

Anchorage
Port and largest city in Alaska, at the head of Cook Inlet; population (2000 est) 260,300. It is an important centre of administration, communication, and commerce for much of central and western Alaska. Local industries include oil and gas extraction, tourism, and fish canning. The Anchorage area has been inhabited by aboriginal groups since a...

Annapolis
Seaport and capital of Maryland, near the mouth of the River Severn on Chesapeake Bay; seat of Anne Arundel County; population (2000 est) 35,800. Annapolis, whose industries include radar equipment, is a commercial centre for the surrounding agricultural area, and is a popular recreational and tourist area lying only 40 km/25 mi from bo...

analogue signal
In electronics, current or voltage that conveys or stores information, and varies continuously in the same way as the information it represents (compare digital signal). Analogue signals are prone to interference and distortion. The bumps in the grooves of a vinyl record form a mechanical analogue of the sound information stored, which is then conv...

analogue-to-digital converter
Electronic circuit that converts an analogue signal into a digital one. Such a circuit is needed to convert the signal from an analogue device into a digital signal for input into a computer. For example, many sensors designed to measure physical quantities, such as temperature and pressure, produce ...

angle of declination
Click images to enlargeAngle at a particular point on the Earth's surface between the direction of the true or geographic North Pole and the magnetic north pole. The angle of declination has varied over time because of the slow drift in the position of the magnetic north pole

angle of reflection
Angle between a ray of light reflected from a mirror and the normal (perpendicular) to that mirror. The law of reflection states that the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence

analogous
In biology, term describing a structure that has a similar function to a structure in another organism, but not a similar evolutionary path. For example, the wings of bees and of birds have the same purpose – to give powered flight – but have different origins. In contrast, homologous structures such as the dolphin flipper and the digging...

analytical chemistry
Branch of chemistry that deals with the determination of the chemical composition of matter. Qualitative analysis determines the identities of the substances in a given sample; quantitative analysis determines how much of a particular substance is present. Simple qualitative techniques exploit the specific, easily observable properties of eleme...

Annamese
The majority ethnic group in Vietnam, comprising 90% of the population. The Annamese language is distinct from Vietnamese, though it has been influenced by Chinese and has loan words from Khmer. Their religion combines elements of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, as well as ancestor worship

Andreotti, Giulio
Italian Christian Democrat politician, a fervent European. He headed seven post-war governments: 1972–73, 1976–79 (four successive terms), and 1989–92 (two terms). In addition he was defence minister eight times, and foreign minister five times. The country's last Christian Democrat prime minister, his final term in offic...

animal liberation
Loose international movement against the infliction of suffering on animals, whether for scientific, military, or commercial research, or in being raised for food. The movement was sparked by the book Animal Liberation (1975) by Australian philosopher Peter Singer (1946– ) and encompasses many different organizations

analogue
(Of a quantity or device) changing continuously; by contrast, a digital quantity or device varies in series of distinct steps. For example, an analogue clock measures time by means of a continuous movement of hands around a dial, whereas a digital clock measures time with a numerical display that changes in a series of discrete steps. Most comp...

annual percentage rate
The true annual rate of interest charged for a loan. Lenders usually increase the return on their money by compounding the interest payable on a loan to that loan on a monthly or even daily basis. This means that each time that interest is payable on a loan it is charged not only on the initial sum (principal) but also on the interest previously ad...

Anzio
Port and resort on the west coast of Italy in Lazio region, 57 km/36 mi southeast of Rome; population (2001) 37,000. Fishing is an important industry, and it is the ferry point for the Pontine Islands. The resort is a popular watersports centre; the Festa del Moree sailing races take place here in June. The town was the birthplace of th...

annual report
Report which must be produced each year by private and public limited companies. It gives details about the company's activities over the previous year (the `Directors' Report`) and financial accounts, usually at least a profit and loss account and a balance sheet. A copy of the annual report must be distributed to shareholders. I...

anticlimax
Disappointing conclusion or sudden descent from the important to the trivial, for example, the placing of the least impressive item last in a list or sequence. Anticlimax is often used in literature as comedy but can have a serious side, particularly in tragedy or tragicomedy, when characters meet their deaths pathetically

analogy
Comparison of two different things, usually made to illustrate or explain complex or unfamiliar ideas. An analogy illustrates the similarity between two different things, for example making an analogy between a person's face and a mask suggests that the face seems artificial or hides something. An analogy does not have to hold true in all sense...

anecdote
Tale or short story from personal experience. Anecdotes are interesting in themselves and can enliven and inform any piece of writing

antecedent
(grammar) In grammar, the noun phrase to which an adjectival (or relative) clause refers. Typically, a pronoun substitutes for the antecedent noun. For example, in the sentence `Jane left early and John followed her`, Jane is the antecedent of the pronoun ...

antithesis
Contrast or opposition between two things. In abstract ideas, an antithesis is a direct opposite, for example, heaven is the antithesis of hell. In a sentence, two contrasting ideas can be said to be balanced by antithesis, usually in the same sentence. For example: `People with young children often lo...

anti-art
In the visual arts, work that is exhibited in a conventional context but makes fun of serious art or challenges the nature of art; it is characteristic of Dada. Marcel Duchamp is credited with introducing the term around 1914, and its spirit is summed up in his attempt to exhibit a urinal (Fountain 1917). The term is also use...

Anglo-American War
War between the USA and Britain 1812–1814; see War of 1812

Antall, József
Hungarian politician, prime minister 1990–93. He led the centre-right Hungarian Democratic Forum (MDF) to electoral victory in April 1990, becoming Hungary's first post-communist prime minister. He promoted gradual, and successful, privatization and encouraged inward foreign investment. He founded the MDF, a Christian–national...

animation
Movement given to an inanimate object, such as a drawing, puppet, or modelling clay; also, a cartoon, or animated film, in which a drawing or object is photographed in a series, with small changes of movement, usually by exposing the film frame by frame. Run at speed, the contents of the film are given the illusion of movement. More recently, c...

antidiuretic hormone
Pituitary hormone that prevents excessive fluid loss. See ADH

anno hegirae
First year of the Muslim calendar, the year of the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622. In dates it is often abbreviated to AH

Anglicanism
See Anglican communion

Anglo-Catholicism
In the Anglican Church, the Catholic heritage of faith and liturgical practice which was stressed by the founders of the Oxford Movement. The term was first used in 1838 to describe the movement, which began in the wake of pressure from the more Protestant wing of the Church of England. Since the Church of England voted in 1992 to ordain women as p...

antinuclear movement
Organization or mass movement opposed to the proliferation of nuclear weapons and/or the use of nuclear energy. It overlaps with the peace movement and the green movement. As the nuclear-arms race gathered momentum during the 1950s, it was criticized by leading intellectual figures, notably Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein. From the 197...

anti-aliasing
In computer graphics, a software technique for diminishing aliasing (`jaggies`) – steplike lines that should be smooth. Jaggies occur because the output device, the monitor or printer, does not have a high enough resolution to represent a smooth line. Anti-aliasing reduces the prominence of jaggies by surrounding the steps with i...

Anderson shelter
In the UK, a simple air-raid shelter used during World War II which could be erected in a garden to provide protection for a family. Tens of thousands were produced and they undoubtedly saved thousands of lives during the air raids on the UK

anachronism
Reference of an event, custom, or expression to a wrong date, common in literature, painting and other forms of art. Anachronism is often deliberately adopted as a device in order to emphasize the strengths and weaknesses of either the misplaced object or of the period it has been placed into. Sometimes, its purpose is merely for comic relief, as &...

anatta
Buddhist theory that there is no permanent entity or self. It is one of the three characteristics of existence in Buddhism; dukkha (suffering) and anicca (impermanence or change) are the other two. Buddhists say that people are made of five skandas, or elements: body, sensation, perception, will, and consciousness. All these things change c...

anicca
Buddhist theory that all aspects and attributes of life are transient and undergoing constant change. It is one of the three signs of existence in Buddhism, together with dukkha (suffering) and anatta (impersonality or no self). The concept of anicca declares that all living things grow old and die or perish, happiness turns to sadness and vice ver...

Annan, Kofi
Ghanaian diplomat, secretary general of the United Nations (UN) 1997–2006. Heading the peacekeeping department of the UN from 1993, he oversaw its peacekeeping operations in Somalia from 1993 and in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1995. He was re-elected in 2001. In the same year, he shared the 2001 Nobel Prize for Peace with the UN itself. He...

Andrew, Rob
English rugby union player. He was England's record points scorer with 396 points in 71 internationals between 1985 and 1997, until he was surpassed by Jonny Wilkinson, but he remains second in the all-time points list. He also played five times for the British Lions. Renowned for his all-round kicking skills, his 23 drop goals were an ...

antenatal
In medicine, before birth. Antenatal care refers to health services provided to ensure the health of pregnant women and their babies

Antiochus
(III) King of Syria 223–187 BC. He earned his title `the Great` by restoring the Seleucid empire in 25 years of continuous campaigning from western Asia Minor to Afghanistan. He also finally wrested the Lebanon and Palestine from Egypt, despite defeat at Raphia in 201 BC. His we...

Andaman Islands
Group of Indian islands, part of the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands