The Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary - Part 5 fills a gap in the literature by providing instructors, hobbyists, and top-level engineers with an accessible, current reference. From the author of the best-selling Telecommunications Illustrated Dictionary, this comprehensive reference includes fundamental physics, basic technical information for fiber splicing, installation, maintenance, and repair, and follow-up information for communications and other professionals using fiber optic components. Well-balanced, well-researched, and extensively cross-referenced, it also includes hundreds of photographs, charts, and diagrams that clarify the more complex ideas and put simpler ideas into their applications context | Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary 1611. Aguilon s most significant work was published as Opticoruni libri sex philosophis juxta ac niatheniaticis utiles Six Books of Optics in 1613. The work is illustrated by the famous painter Peter Paul Rubens and includes images of binocular vision stereography and a historic photometer. Ah ampere-hour. AHT Average Handle Time. A call management phrase that describes the amount of time it takes on average to take a call talk to the caller and handle the caller s needs at the end of the call. For example on a typical sales call it may take a minute to connect with the desired person fifteen minutes for the call and twenty minutes after the call to log the caller s feedback and arrange to have a sales brochure sent to the caller. Al 1. Airborne Interception. A radar-assisted fire control system used in military interceptor aircraft. 2. See artificial intelligence. AIA 1. See Aerospace Industries Association of America Inc. 2. American Institute of Architects. 3. Application Interface Adapter. A software utility which converts client function calls to standard SCSA messages. AICE See Australian Institute of Computer Ethics. AIEE American Institute of Electrical Engineers. It was consolidated with IRE to form the IEEE an influential body of engineering professionals. See IEEE. AIFF See Audio Interchange File Format. AIIM See Association for Information and Image Management. Aiken Howard Hathaway 1900-1973 An American Harvard student and engineer who proposed development of a large-scale calculating machine a historic forerunner of later electronic digital computers. The motivation for the machine was to create a system to solve cumbersome math equations and the inspiration came from the writings of Charles Babbage and the Hollerith tabulating systems. Aiken was working on his doctorate when he conceived the idea and wrote a report. He subsequently received financial support in the 1940s from the President of International Business
