ELINT
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[′ē‚lint] McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
ELINT
(ELectronic INTelligence) See DOD intelligence glossary.Copyright © 1981-2025 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.
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The DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms defines SIGINT as "A category of intelligence information comprising all communications intelligence (COMINT),
electronics intelligence (ELINT) and telemetry intelligence." Very basically, SIGINT involves the reception and characterization of electromagnetic radiation and the processing and classification of this data into intelligence.
The January 1986 edition of the "DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms" defines signal intelligence as "A category of intelligence information comprising all communications intelligence (COMINT),
electronics intelligence and telemetry intelligence.
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