In
telecommunication
Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of ...
, the term gating has the following meanings:
#The process of selecting only those portions of a wave between specified
time
Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequ ...
intervals or between specified amplitude limits.
#The controlling of signals by means of combinational logic elements.
#A process in which a predetermined
set
Set, The Set, SET or SETS may refer to:
Science, technology, and mathematics Mathematics
*Set (mathematics), a collection of elements
*Category of sets, the category whose objects and morphisms are sets and total functions, respectively
Electro ...
of conditions, when established, permits a second process to occur.
Telecommunications engineering
Signal processing
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