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Tele-Communication (Telecom) Terms Glossary and Dictionary
Transmission Block
Transmission block refers to the following meanings: (1) A group of bits or characters transmitted as a unit and usually containing an encoding procedure for error control purposes. (2) In data transmission, a group of records is sent, processed, or recorded as a unit. Transmission block is usually terminated by an end-of-block character (EOB), end-of-transmission-block character (ETB), or end-of-text character (EOT).
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