Category: S

Method of data transfer where continues streams of data are accompanied by a timing signal ensuring receiver and transmitter are in step with each other.

Lat. A mortuary, or soul-scot.

To cut short, or pronounce things so as not to be understood. Cowell.

Coding scheme for secure data transmissions using one digital key to encode and decode the message. Also known as symmetric key encryption.

In the civil law. An advocate or patron; a burgess or recorder; an agent or attorney who acts for a corporation or university; an actor or procurator; an assignee. Wharton. See Minnesota L. & T. Co. v. Beebe, 40 Minn. 7, ’41 N. W. 232, 2 L. R. A. 418; Mobile & O. R. Co. v. Whitney, 39 Ala. 471. In French law. The person who is commissioned by the courts to administer a bank- ruptcy. He fulfills the same functions as the trustee in English law, or assignee in Amer ica. The term is also applied to the person appointed to manage the affairs of a corporation. See Field v. United States, 9 Pet. 182, 9 L. Ed. 94.

Close relationship existing between 2 organisms where one gets a benefit from the relationship.

Carrier substituted B/L for the original B/L with the terms of an L/C.

Sign or word used to indicate or signify an idea, relationship or object.

Temporary path that is electrical in nature that is created between 2 points in an ‘as and when needed’ basis.

The art or cunning rightly to form and make written instru- ments. It is either judicial or extrajudicial; the latter being wholly occupied with such instruments as concern matters not yet judicially in controversy, such as instruments of agreements or contracts, and testaments or last wills. Wharton.