- Intercharacter interval
In
telecommunications , the intercharacter interval is thetime interval between the end of thestop signal of one character and the beginning of thestart signal of the next character of an asynchronous transmission."Note:" The intercharacter interval may be of any duration. The signal sense of the intercharacter interval is always the same as the sense of the stop element, "i.e.", "1" or "mark."
References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.