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English translation: PCM (Pulse Coded Modulation)


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French term or phrase: MIC [telecoms]
English translation:PCM (Pulse Coded Modulation)
Entered by: Tony M
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16:41 Jun 4, 2004
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Tech/Engineering - Telecom(munications) / cellphone relay station signal cables
French term or phrase: MIC
It's being used in connection with cellular phone relay station equipment, and is used in such a way as to describe what appears to be an incoming signal cable --- they are described as '120 ohm twisted pairs', and there are quite a lot of them being connected to a kind of distribution board. That's all well and good, but I need to know if MIC is an abbreviation already in English or not!
Now I know that MIC = PCM [pulse coded modulation], but that doesn't seem quite right as a description for a signal cable (though I acknowledge that it IS possible!) 'incoming PCMs'?
Does anyone else out there have more specific knowledge of this field?
Tony M
France
Local time: 13:42
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Explanation:
Don't know if this helps but here goes:
I am enclosing a reference which seems to indicate that MIC is already an English abbreviation and another reference with possible abbreviations for MIC.
Problem is there are so many dang abbreviations for MIC but the one from Grand Dictionnaire is in telecomms.

Take care
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peekay
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Local time: 07:42
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Thanks PK! In spite of my earlier 'decline', the client has subsequently confirmed the meaning here as 'PCM', which was of course one of the GDT answers you suggested; so i feel it only fair to at least give you one little point, in thanks --- though my appreciation to ALL answerers goes way beyond the number of points available on KudoZ :-)
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4Media Interface ConnectorJane Lamb-Ruiz
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Explanation:
Don't know if this helps but here goes:
I am enclosing a reference which seems to indicate that MIC is already an English abbreviation and another reference with possible abbreviations for MIC.
Problem is there are so many dang abbreviations for MIC but the one from Grand Dictionnaire is in telecomms.

Take care


    Reference: http://w3.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index1024...
    Reference: http://www.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/abklex.html#M
peekay
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Thanks PK! In spite of my earlier 'decline', the client has subsequently confirmed the meaning here as 'PCM', which was of course one of the GDT answers you suggested; so i feel it only fair to at least give you one little point, in thanks --- though my appreciation to ALL answerers goes way beyond the number of points available on KudoZ :-)
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Media Interface Connector


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media interface connectors

Dusty, you really need to put in the French sentence because without it one is really floating...

could be this....

when the relay is de-energized and closed when the relay is energized ... MIC (Media Interface Connector) - The optical fiber connector that joins the fiber to the ...
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Jane Lamb-Ruiz
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Thanks a lot Jane, for your research and wisdom, as ever.
Turns out, against all my expectations, that it WAS in fact the 'PCM' meaning of the acronym; yet another example of an adjective being used in French to 'invent' a noun... I live and (sometimes!) learn...
Cheers! 'Dusty'
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Comment: Thanks a lot Jane, for your research and wisdom, as ever.
Turns out, against all my expectations, that it WAS in fact the 'PCM' meaning of the acronym; yet another example of an adjective being used in French to 'invent' a noun... I live and (sometimes!) learn...
Cheers! 'Dusty'




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