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handoff

Switching a cellular phone transmission from one cell to another as a mobile user moves into a new cellular area. The switch takes place in about a quarter of a second so that the caller is generally unaware of it.



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Our handoffs were extremely clean today - we rolled," said Barton, the third-place finisher in the 400, who watched 2004 Olympic 100-meter gold medalist Justin Gatlin run an anchor leg in the elite division seconds earlier.
The boom-and-bust cycles are flattening out as political handoffs become less chaotic (this is a big election year, yet no one is up in arms over most of the votes; see our Brazil coverage in this issue).
The case is a classic example of a system in which the convenience of the providers dictates frequent and imperfect handoffs that put the patient at risk.
 
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