code-division multiple access


code-division multiple access

[′kōd də¦vizh·ən ′məl·tə·pəl ′ak‚ses] (communications) The transmission of messages from a large number of transmitters over a single channel by assigning each transmitter a pseudorandom noise code (typically more than 2000 symbols long for each bit of information) so that the codes are mathematically independent of each other. Abbreviated CDMA.