Glossary Terms

In mechanical counters only: (+) adding in the specified sense of rotation + (–) adding in the specified sense of…

See count frequency

Cyclic redundancy check. Bit error protection method for data communication.

Approval by the Canadian Standards Association

Frequency range for output signals

Registers the number of signals released at the main output. In counters with automatic repetition, the number of repeated cycles…

Rate of data transfer (bits per second).

Binary-coded decimal; binary representation of a decimal number.

Two logical states (yes/no); the basis of binary data-processing systems.

Code using binary numbering; often used for absolute measuring systems.