quaternary signaling

quaternary signaling

[′kwät·ən‚er·ē ′sig·nə·liŋ]

(communications)

An electrical communications mode in which information is passed by the presence and absence, or plus and minus variations of four discrete levels of one parameter of the signaling medium.

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