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STORE AND FORWARD

Specialty Definition: STORE AND FORWARD

DomainDefinition

Computing

Store and forward (Or "message switching") A kind of message passing system where a complete message is received before it is passed on to the next node. This means that each message is using at most one interprocessor link at any time but may require more storage buffers on intermediate nodes than the alternative, wormhole routing. (1995-02-16). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Post & Telecom

A method of message handling in which messages are temporarily stored at one or more intermediate points prior to their delivery to the ultimate recipient. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: STORE AND FORWARD

Specialty definitions using "STORE AND FORWARD": AutofaxFonofax SFmail gateway, message switchingUUCPNET. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: STORE AND FORWARD

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

There are a number of other companies that offer mobile radio services for taxi fleets, GPS vehicle tracing services, radio alarms, two-way pager services, rural message services, fax store and forward services, and others. (references)

Though their business viability may have been watered down somewhat by the developments of the two mobile cellular operators, opportunities exist for some of 12 additional PSPs licensed by the CCK this year to forge strategic partnerships with fixed (Telkom Kenya, RTOs) network operators in providing store and forward messaging to customers requiring telecommunication services and are either unable to afford a dedicated subscriber line or are located in areas where it is uneconomical to provide the service. (references)

Economic History

India

It is also proposed that foreign investment up to 51 per cent in e-mail, voice-mail, data retrieval, on-line information, data processing, store and forward fax services would also be permitted through the automatic route. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: STORE AND FORWARD

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

store and forward

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: STORE AND FORWARD

Language Translations for "STORE AND FORWARD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

store and forward. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

opslag en transmissie. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

etappivälitys (delayed send, store-and-forward, store-and-forward send). (various references)

   

French

  

mémorisation et restitution, enregistrement et retransmission. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orestay anday orwardfay

   

Portuguese

  

memorização e restituição, gravação e retransmissão. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

registro y retransmisión, almacenamiento y retransmisión. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: STORE AND FORWARD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-f-n-o-o-r-r-r-s-t-w"

-5 letters: afterwards, afterwords, deodorants, downdrafts, forwarders, forwardest, frontwards, transferor, warranters, warrantors.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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