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SIGINT

Definition: SIGINT

SIGINT

Noun

1. Intelligence information gathered from communications intelligence or electronics intelligence or telemetry intelligence.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"SIGINT" is a common misspelling or typo for: Saint, Sighing, Sign, Signet, Signing, Signs, Singing.


Abbreviations & Acronyms: SIGINT

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

SIGINT

EnglishSignals intelligenceTelecom

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Specialty Definition: SIGINT

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

SIGINT stands for Signals Intelligence, and refers to intelligence-gathering by interception of signals, whether by radio interception or other means.

As sensitive information is often encrypted, SIGINT often involves the use of cryptanalysis. However, traffic analysis can be used to gather information even when the messages themselves cannot be decrypted.

Past and Present SIGINT Activities

Related Topics

In UNIX-derived operating systems, SIGINT stands for Signal Interrupt or Signal Interactive. It refers to the signal sent to a UNIX process by the kernel when the user on the process's terminal presses Control-C (On some systems, this is the "delete" character).

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "SIGINT."

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Synonym: SIGINT

Synonym: signals intelligence (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: SIGINT

DomainTitle

Books

  • Burma's Military Secrets: Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) from the Sec (reference)

  • Soviet SIGINT : Hawaii operation (reference)

  • Soviet signals intelligence (SIGINT) (reference)

  • The Sigint Secrets: The Signals Intelligence War, 1900 to Today--Including the Persecution of Gordon Welchman (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SIGINT

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sigint

68

sigint system

5

di ricevitori sigint sorveglianza

4

sigint recorder

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SIGINT

Language Translations for "SIGINT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

veille automatique (Signals Intelligence). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

igintsay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SIGINT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: siting.

Words within the letters "g-i-i-n-s-t"

-1 letter: intis, sting, tings.

-2 letters: gins, gist, gits, inti, nisi, nits, sign, sing, snit, ting, tins.

-3 letters: gin, git, ins, its, nit, sin, sit, tin, tis.

-4 letters: in, is, it, si, ti.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-i-n-s-t"
 

+1 letter: fisting, histing, ignites, insight, listing, misting, sifting, silting, sitting, skiting, smiting, spiting, suiting, tidings, tilings, timings, wisting.

 

+2 letters: agisting, bittings, dingiest, existing, fittings, foisting, giantism, ginniest, heisting, hoisting, ignatias, igniters, ignitors, infights, insights, itchings, jingoist, joisting, kiltings, kitlings, lignites, lingiest, linguist, listings, mingiest, nighties, pittings, positing, resiting, ringgits, sainting, shifting, shirting, shitting, siftings, sighting, sittings, skirting, slitting, sopiting, spirting, spitting, staining, sticking, stiffing, stifling, stilling, stilting, stimying, stingier, stingily, stinging, stinking, stinting, stirring, striding, striking, striping, striving, suitings, tailings, tickings, tintings, tissuing, tithings, twisting, visiting, waisting, waitings, whisting, whitings, wingiest, wingtips, witlings, wittings, writings, zingiest.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SIGINT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 49 47 49 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ..    --.    ..    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001001 01000111 01001001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#73 &#71 &#73 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0049 0047 0049 004E 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

534341434854

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Non-English Dictionaries with "SIGINT"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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