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Affixing digital signature

Affixing digital signature, with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means adoption of any methodology or procedure by a person for the purpose of authenticating an electronic record by means of digital signature. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2 (1) (d)]...

Admission

Admission, An admission is a statement (Oral or documentary or contained in electronic from, which suggests any inference as to any fact in issue or relevant fact and which is made by any of the persons and under the circumstance mentioned....

Addressee

Addressee, means a person who is intended by the originator to receive the electronic record but does not include any intermediary. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2 (1) (b)]...

Slide rule

a thin flat calculating device consisting of a fixed outer piece and a movable middle piece Both pieces are graduated in such a way as by a logarithmic scale that multiplication division and other mathematical functions of an input variable may be rapidly determined by movement of the middle pieces to a location on one scale corresponding to the input value and reading off the result on another scale A movable window with a hairline assists in alignment of the scales This device has been largely superseded by the electronic calculator which has a greater precision than the slide rule Also called colloquially slipstick...

Servomechanism

an electronically controlled mechanical or hydraulic device permitting a large action or strong forces to be controlled by a small electrical signal...

Pair production

The simultaneous creation of a particle and its antiparticle such as an electron and positron from a photon usually due to its interaction with the strong field near a nucleus...

Particle accelerator

A large and expensive scientific instrument used by physicists to accelerate elementary particles such as protons or electrons to speeds near that of light for the purpose of investigating the fundamental properties of matter sometimes also called an atom smasher since the particles thus accelerated are often directed at targets of atoms which are fragmented by the impact into their more fundamental component particles...

Computer system

Computer system, means a device or collection of devices, including input and output support devices and excluding calculators which are not programmable and capable of being used in conjunction with external files which contain computer programmes, electronic instructions, input data and output data that performs logic, arithmetic, data storage and retrieval, communication control and other functions. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2 (1) (l)]...

pager

A small electronic communication device which signals when a telephone call has been received at a base station Each such device receives radio signals from the base station specifically coded for the individual to whom it is registered the signal given by the device to the registered user may be a beeping sound indicating that the user should call the base station to receive a message or it may display a telephone number to which the user may call directly to return the incoming call or may display a short message Such devices are small enough to carry in the pocket or pocketbook or to clip onto a belt or other part of the clothing Also called beeper...

oxidization

The process of oxidizing the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons The process always occurs accompanied by reduction...

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