digital subscriber line

noun

A family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. Often, this notion is used for the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), the most commonly installed technical variety of DSL.

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Meanings

noundigital subscriber line (plural digital subscriber lines)

plural digital subscriber lines

  1. A family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. Often, this notion is used for the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), the most commonly installed technical variety of DSL.

    Synonyms: DSL

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network. Often, this notion is used for the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), the most commonly installed technical variety of DSL.

Similar
DSL

More synonyms by meaning

nouna generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds

Similar
DSL
Broader
telephone linephone linetelephone circuit

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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