Control operation
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In telecommunication
, a control operation (control function) is an operation that affects the recording, processing, transmission
, or interpretation of data
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Examples of control operations a font change, or a rewind; and transmitting an end-of-transmission (EOT) control character
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Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
, a control operation (control function) is an operation that affects the recording, processing, transmission
Transmission (telecommunications)
Transmission, in telecommunications, is the process of sending, propagating and receiving an analogue or digital information signal over a physical point-to-point or point-to-multipoint transmission medium, either wired, optical fiber or wireless...
, or interpretation of data
Data
The term data refers to qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of a set of variables. Data are often viewed as the lowest level of abstraction from which...
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Examples of control operations a font change, or a rewind; and transmitting an end-of-transmission (EOT) control character
Control character
In computing and telecommunication, a control character or non-printing character is a code point in a character set, that does not in itself represent a written symbol.It is in-band signaling in the context of character encoding....
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