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SIGINT

Dictionary entry overview: What does SIGINT mean?

• SIGINT (noun)
The noun SIGINT has 1 sense:

1. intelligence information gathered from communications intelligence or electronics intelligence or telemetry intelligence

Familiarity information: SIGINT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SIGINT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Intelligence information gathered from communications intelligence or electronics intelligence or telemetry intelligence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

SIGINT; signals intelligence

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)

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SIGINT: related words searches

» intelligence activity definition
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» ELINT meaning
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