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line noise

line noise noun: spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link.

Noun

line noise (uncountable)

  1. Spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link.
  2. Data that looks random, as when outputting a binary file as text.
  3. (derogatory) Incomprehensible source code or other textual material (often due to terseness or overuse of operators).
    • In short, Perl doesn't write illegible Perl, people do. If you can stop yourself being one of them, we can agree that Perl's reputation for looking like line noise is no more than a myth.2000, Simon Cozens, Ten Perl Myths, perl.com

line noise meaning in Tamil

line noise in Tamil

வழிச்சத்தம்

Questions about line noise

What does line noise mean?
Line noise means spurious characters due to signal noise in a communications link.
What is line noise in Tamil?
Line noise in Tamil is வழிச்சத்தம். See Line noise meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is line noise?
Line noise is a noun.

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  10. line of 7s
  11. Line of Actual Control

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Adapted from Wiktionary: line noise (page history and authors); line noise (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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