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Glossary of Terms

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4/8 indent crimpA military-approved crimp used on screw-machined pin and socket contacts, such as in AMPLIMITE* connectors. The crimp consists of either one or two rows of indents equally spaced around the wire barrel of the contact.
4B/5B encodingA signal modulation scheme in which groups of four bits are encoded and transmitted in five bits in order to guarantee that no more than three consecutive zeroes ever occur; used in FDDI.
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