noun
a generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds
• Syn: ↑digital subscriber line
• Hypernyms: ↑telephone line, ↑phone line, ↑telephone circuit, ↑subscriber line, ↑line
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Digital Subscriber Line: a technology that allows high-speed transmission of data, audio, and video, usually over standard telephone lines; a form of broadband transmission.
[1995-2000]
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abbrev
Digital Subscriber Line, a fast Internet connection over an analogue phone line
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[countable] digital subscriber line: a telephone line that sends information very fast and is used for the Internet and television as well as the telephone
Thesaurus: telephone services and companieshyponym
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DSL (no periods) or D.S.L.,
deep scattering layer.
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abbr.
■ deep scattering layer
■ digital subscriber line. See also adsl
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abbr
digital subscriber line
high-speed DSL Internet access
◇ DSL refers to a system that uses telephone lines to allow you to connect to the Internet at high speeds.
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digital subscriber line (a way of sending electronic data at high speed along ordinary telephone lines, used for supplying the Internet to homes, businesses, etc.)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.