German and English Search Results for: Nachricht

– In communications, a unit of information transmitted electronically from one device to another. A message can contain one or more blocks of text as well as beginning and ending characters, control characters, a software-generated header (destination address, type of message, and other such information), and error-checking or synchronizing information. A message can be routed directly from sender to receiver through a physical link, or it can be passed, either whole or in parts, through a switching system that routes it from one intermediate station to another. ¹

– An individual unit of data transported between endpoint locations. A message consists of a document plus a header (information about the transfer). ¹

– An electronic instance of one-to-many schemas. Usually documents are sent between two processes. ¹

– A message that is sent over a communications network such as a local area network or the Internet. ¹