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Definition: Jamming |
JammingNoun1. Deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "jamming" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | Intentional transmission or reradiation of radio signals in such a way as to interfere with reception of desired signals by the intended receiver. (references) |
Computing | A disturbance experienced in the reception of a wanted signal, caused by an unwanted signal(s)or noise. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical, electrical or other device for preventing the operation of a piece of apparatus under certain conditions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A deliberate interference, due to unwanted signals, which is intended to render unintelligible or falsify the whole or part of the desired signal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | The international disturbance or obliteration of radio or acoustic waves with the view to rendering them unintelligible, e. g. signals on an enemy broadcast. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Obvious jamming is easy to detect as it can be heard on the receiving equipment, it is some type of noise such as stepped tones (bagpipes), random-keyed code, pulses, erratically warbling tones, and recorded sounds. The purpose of this type of jamming is to block out reception of transmitted signals and to cause a nuisance to the receiving operator.
Subtle jamming is that during which no sound is heard on the receiving equipment. The radio does not receive incoming signals yet everything seems superficially normal to the operator. These are often techical attacks on modern equipment, such as 'SQUELCH capture'.Radio Jamming
Communications jamming is usually aimed at radio signals to disrupt control of a battle. A transmitter, tuned to the same frequency as the opponents receiving equipment and with the same type of modulation, can with enough power override any signal at the receiver. The most common types of this form of signal jamming are: Random Noise; Random Pulse; Stepped Tones; Wobbler; Random Keyed Modulated CW; Tone; Rotary; Pulse; Spark; Recorded Sounds; Gulls; and Sweep-through. All of these can be divided into two groups - obvious and subtle.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jamming."
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| JAWS | English | Jamming and warning system | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: JammingSynonyms: electronic jamming (n), jam (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I let that sneaky lizard lead me right into Megatron's jamming zone. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) So cute I'm thinking about jamming this pen in my eye. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen) Six says we're jamming him up back there. (Platoon; writing credit: Oliver Stone) | |
Lyrics | That'd be down stairs laughing and jamming (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Delivery trucks jamming West 37th Street, looking west from 7th Avenue, New York City] / World-Telegram p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by Al Aumuller.. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | China | Government jamming of RFA is more frequent and effective. (references) |
Cuba | Radio Marti broadcasts at times overcame the jamming attempts on short-wave bands, but its medium-wave transmissions were blocked completely in Havana. (references) | |
Travel | Russia | On inter-city overnight trains, secure the door to your compartment with some sort of jamming device (many people simply use a wire coat hanger). (references) |
Worker Rights | China | The signals of the Tibetan language services of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) as well as of the Oslo-based Voice of Tibet suffer from the same jamming of their frequencies by Chinese authorities as the signals of their Chinese language services. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Jamming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 79.25% of the time. "Jamming" is used about 106 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 79.25% | 84 | 36,109 |
| Noun (singular) | 12.26% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.6% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.89% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 106 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "jamming": active radio jamming ♦ barrage jamming ♦ electronic jamming ♦ jamming station ♦ jamming transmitter ♦ radar jamming ♦ radio jamming ♦ selective jamming ♦ spot jamming ♦ sweep jamming ♦ window jamming. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "jamming": jamming-avoidance. | |
Ending with "jamming": anti-jamming, hand-jamming, missile-jamming. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "jamming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zhurma (statics), shtrëngim (clutch, coercion, compulsion, constriction, constringency, contraction, fastening, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, hug, jam, jaw, pinch, pressure, restraint, squeeze, strangulation), pengesë (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, boom, chock, clog, cramp, crash barrier, cumber, detention, difficulty, dike, disadvantage, drag, drawback, encumbrance, fetter, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hitch, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, interruption, liability, manacle, mash, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pullback, retardation, retardment, rub, setback, stay, stoppage, stumbling block, stumbling-stone, stunt, traverse, trip up), bllokim (block, blockage, blocking, deadlock, hold up, holding, impediment, jam, jam up, locking, logjam, obstruction, occlusion, overlap, strangulation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حاجز (arresting, bail, bar, barricade, barrier, block, dike, divider, division, dyke, fence, levee, obstacle, parapet, partition, rail, screen, stem, traverse), تشويش إذاعي (strays), إنسداد (jam, obstruction, obtuseness, occlusion, stop, stoppage, stopping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | натъпкване (crowding, jam, stuffing), натискане (jam, press, pressing), заяждане (cavil, jam, nag), заглушаване (blackout, damping, interception, jam), претъпкване (jam, overcrowding), притискане (constriction, jam, press, squeeze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 阻塞 (jammed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tlaèenice (crowd, crush, hustle, jam, overcrowding, squash, squeeze, throng), rušení (disturbance, interference). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | støjsending, støjsenderforstyrrelser, interferensfænomen (interference, jam), interferens (intererence, interference), forstyrrelse (disorder, disordering, disturbance, failure, incident, interference, jam, operating trouble, perturbation, to disturb, trouble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | storingsprodukt (interference, jam), storing (disquiet, disturbance, hindrance, interference, trouble, unrest), storen (bar, bother, disturb, hinder, inhibit, prevent, trouble), opzettelijke storing, blokkering (atrioventricular block, binding, block, blockade, blockage, blocking, cardiac block, choking, heart block, heart-block, immobilisation, immobilization, infiltration, interlock, locking, mute, muting, noise suppression, putting on the skid, skidding, squelch, stopping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گیر (Embroglio, Fix, Gripe, Hitch, Impasse, Impediment, Obstacle, Scrape, Snag, Trap), گرفتگی (Congestion, Eclipse, Melancholia, Obstruction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | häirintä (masking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | brouillage (jam), blocage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | störung (derangement, disorder, disruption, disturbance, fault, hitch, hold up, interference, interruption, intrusion, malfunction, perturbation, trouble, upset, violation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρεμβολή (insertion, interference, interpolation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חסימ" (obstruction, obturation, occlusion), "פרעת "ש"ור. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zavaró adás (blanketing), zavarás (blanketing, disorder, distraction, disturbance, interference, jam, perturbation), rádióvétel, rádióadás (emission), aktív zavarás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kemacetan (bottleneck, breakdown, logjam, shutdown, stoppage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | interferenza (interference), inceppamento (jam), grippaggio (seizing, seizure), disturbo intenzionale, disturbo con interferenza, disturbo (ailment, bother, complaint, derangement, disorder, disturbance, fault, illness, inconvenience, noise, obstruction, trouble, upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 妨害 (disturbance, hindrance, interference, obstruction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぼうがい (disturbance, hindrance, interference, obstruction, unanticipated, unexpected), ""し" (cross talk, friendship, interference, intimacy, with all one's might, with one's whole body), ジャミング . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 움직이지 않게 함. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ammingjay ligação (attachment, bond, call, catenation, coherence, coherency, conduit, connection, connexion, contact, coupling, cufflink, intercourse, lead, liaison, nexus, slide, touch, union), interferência provocada, interferência (eject, interference, meddling, stoppage), encravamento (immobilisation, immobilization, interlock, interlocking, latch, scotching), compressão (compression, constriction, crush, pressure, retrenchment, squeeze), bloqueio (bolting), aperto (abashment, bind, clamping, clench, clutch, crush, grasp, grip, gripe, hug, hustle, jam, narrowness, perplexity, pinch, screw, shake, squeeze, stricture, tightness), apertadela (felter), acumulação (accumulation, assembly, congeries). (various references) глушение, защемление (jam), заклинивание, заедание (jam, seizing). (various references) zaglušivanje, prigušivanje (damping). (various references) interferencia (interference, jam, mush). (various references) störning (derangement, disruption, distraction, disturbance, interference, perturbation). (various references) yayını bozma, tutukluk (block, breakdown, seizing), sıkışma (having hard time, incarceration, pressure, squeeze), parazit yapma. (various references) глушіння (damping), заїдання (sticking), затор (congestion, dead lock, gorge, hold up, jam, lock, stopping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "jamming": antijamming, unjamming, windjamming. (additional references) | |
Words containing "jamming": windjammings. (additional references) | |
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"Jamming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jamin, jaming, jammen, jammin, jamun, jazmin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "jamming" (pronounced ja"ming) |
| 4 | -a" m i ng | cramming, damming, damning, lambing, ramming, slamming. |
| 3 | -m i ng | acclaiming, affirming, aiming, alarming, arming, assuming, barnstorming, beaming, becoming, blaming, blooming, blossoming, bombing, booming, bottoming, brainstorming, brimming, calming, charming, claiming, climbing, combing, coming, condemning, confirming, conforming, consuming, daydreaming, deprogramming, diagraming, dimming, disarming, disclaiming, dooming, dreaming, drumming, dumbing, embalming, exclaiming, farming, filming, firebombing, firming, flaming, foaming, forming, forthcoming, framing, fuming, gaming, gleaming, gloaming, grooming, harming, heartwarming, helming, hemming, homecoming, homing, humming, incoming, inflaming, informing, lemming, liming, looming, maiming, mainstreaming, misinforming, mushrooming, naming, nonperforming, numbing, oncoming, outperforming, overcoming, overwhelming, performing, plumbing, presuming, priming, proclaiming, programing, programming, reaffirming, rearming, reclaiming, redeeming, reforming, renaming, reprogramming, resuming, rhyming, roaming, rooming, scheming, screaming, seeming, shaming, shortcoming, skimming, slimming, squirming, steaming, stemming, storming, streaming, strumming, succumbing, summing, swarming, swimming, taming, teaming, teeming, terming, thumbing, timing, transforming, trimming, unassuming, unbecoming, upcoming, vacuuming, warming, welcoming, zooming. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-j-m-m-n" | |
-2 letters: gamin. | |
-3 letters: agin, amin, gain, imam, magi, maim, main, mina. | |
-4 letters: aim, ain, ami, ani, gam, gan, gin, jag, jam, jig, jin, mag, man, mig, mim, nag, nam, nim. | |
-5 letters: ag, ai, am, an, in, ma, mi, mm, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-j-m-m-n" | |
+2 letters: unjamming. | |
+4 letters: antijamming, windjamming. | |
+5 letters: windjammings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01100001 01101101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J a m m i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0061 006D 006D 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)44677979758073 |
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