Book ITC - Abbreviations - Special signs

TC	Transcommunication
VOT	Voices on tape
ITC	Instrumental transcommunication
DEAV	Direct electro-acoustic voices
MTC	Mediumistic transcommunication
TA	Transaudio
TTC	Technically supported transcommunication
TV	Transvideo
TI	Transinformation
TX	Transtext(s)
TE	Transentity(ies)
ESP	Extrasensory perception
EM	Electro-magnetics or electro-magnetical
RP	Distant perception
Hz	Unit of frequency indication: 1 Hz = 1 oscillation per second
PK	Psychokinesis or psychokinetical
S/N	Relation of the power of a signal referred to the intensity of accompanying noise
dB	Decibel: Unit for indicating power relations in logarithmic scale, e.g. 10 dB = 10:1; 20 dB = 100:1

Abbreviations for powers of ten:
m	= milli	= 10^-3
μ	= micro	= 10^-6
n	= nano	= 10^-9
k	= kilo	= 10³
M	= mega	= 10⁶
G	= giga	= 10⁹
T	= tera	= 10¹²

When the prefixes ‘von’ or ‘van’ form part of family names, they are disregarded in the alphabetical listing in chapter G-42. Indications to sections, page numbers p., illustrations ill., and the authors are added in (.), the numbers of remarks in [].

In connection with ITC, the frequently used term ‘experimenter’ is, in general, not to be understood in the sense of physical-technical laboratory research. More to the point is the sense of the word ‘operator’ with the meaning ‘mediator’. This applies analogously to ‘research’, which should be understood according to the original, etymologically founded sense, i.e., to ‘ask/question, require, request’. In the currently used jargon, most of the endeavours of border sciences made in the field of ITC can be regarded as ‘field research’.

Another limitation refers to the term ‘extraterrestrian’, which here is to be understood in a very general manner, by no ways according to the sense it has in ‘ufology’.