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error rate

The measurement of the effectiveness of a communications channel. It is the ratio of the number of erroneous units of data to the total number of units of data transmitted.

error rate [′er·ər ‚rāt]

(communications)

The number of erroneous bits or characters received for some fixed number of bits transmitted.

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