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SIGINT
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Intelligence information gathered from communications intelligence or electronics intelligence or telemetry intelligence
Synonyms:
SIGINT; signals intelligence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("SIGINT" is a kind of...):
intelligence; intelligence activity; intelligence operation (the operation of gathering information about an enemy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "SIGINT"):
electronics intelligence; ELINT (intelligence derived from electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources))
COMINT; communications intelligence (technical and intelligence information derived from foreign communications by other than the intended recipients)
telemetry intelligence; TELINT (intelligence derived from the interception and processing and analysis of foreign telemetry)