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headends

headends is the plural of headend.

Meaning of headend

Noun

headend (plural headends)

  1. A cable TV control center, at which terrestrial and satellite signals are received, monitored and injected into the cable network.
    • The headend cable modem handles the medium access control (MAC) protocol which is necessary for point-to-multipoint operation on the tree-and-branch network.1998, D. W. Faulkner, A. L. Harmer, Broadband Access and Network Management: NOC '98

Questions about headends

What is headends the plural of?
Headends is the plural of headend.

Words near headends in the dictionary

  1. headedness
  2. Headen
  3. headend
  4. headender
  5. headenders
  6. headends
  7. Headens
  8. header
  9. header file
  10. header files
  11. header guard

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