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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Electronics Undesired signals or sounds, as of voices, in a telephone or other communications device as a result of coupling between transmission circuits.
  • noun Ancillary, incidental conversation.

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  • noun electronics undesirable signals from a neighbouring transmission circuit; undesired coupling between circuits
  • noun conversation that is incidental to the topic under discussion
  • verb To hold an incidental conversation

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  • noun the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling

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  • Jiang Kun, a master of the Chinese comic art known as crosstalk, is also off the program this year, with columnists speculating it's because his skit touched on a train crash last year in Wenzhou.

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  • Category 5 cable includes four balanced lines helps preserve a high signal-to-noise ratio despite interference from both external sources and other pairs (this latter form of interference is called crosstalk).

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  • Sharp says its new 3-D televisions will be brighter than those of the competition, while reducing the amount of "crosstalk," or blurriness, that sometimes occurs in 3-D models.

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  • Sharp says its new 3-D televisions will be brighter than those of the competition, while reducing the amount of "crosstalk," or blurriness, that sometimes occurs in 3-D models.

    LCD TV Makers Ramp Up as Demand Returns Juro Osawa 2010

  • Sharp says its new 3D televisions will be brighter than those of the competition, while reducing the amount of "crosstalk," or blurriness, that sometimes occurs in 3D models.

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  • Sharp says its new 3-D televisions will be brighter than those of the competition, while reducing the amount of "crosstalk," or blurriness, that sometimes occurs in 3-D models.

    LCD TV Makers Ramp Up as Demand Returns Juro Osawa 2010

  • I'm pretty sure the caller continued a bit longer where it says "crosstalk," but you get the idea..

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  • Oakley 3D glasses provide truer alignment of 3D images by virtually eliminating the ghosting also known as "crosstalk" between the images that reach each eye from one moment to the next.

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  • Sharp said high response speeds of its 3D TV use LCD panels help eliminate double-contour ghost images known as "crosstalk", which often occur with 3D images.

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  • Sharp said high response speeds of its 3D TV use LCD panels help eliminate double-contour ghost images known as "crosstalk", which often occur with 3D images.

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