telecommunication Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than tha ...

, a stop signal is a

signal In signal processing, a signal is a function that conveys information about a phenomenon. Any quantity that can vary over space or time can be used as a signal to share messages between observers. The '' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing' ...

that marks the end of part of a transmission, for example: #In

asynchronous serial communication Asynchronous serial communication is a form of serial communication in which the communicating endpoints' interfaces are not continuously synchronized by a common clock signal. Instead of a common synchronization signal, the data stream contai ...

, a signal at the end of a

character Character or Characters may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''Character'' (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk * ''Characters'' (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to The ...

that prepares the receiving device for the reception of a subsequent character. A stop signal is usually limited to one

signal element In signal theory, a signal element is a part of a signal that is distinguished by its: *duration, * magnitude, *nature (the modulation technique used to create the element), *relative position to other elements, *transition from one signal state t ...

having any duration equal to or greater than a specified minimum value. # A signal to a receiving mechanism to wait for the next signal.

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