digital subscriber line

1. 1.

   a generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds

   SynonymsDSL

   Broadertelephone line

Questions about digital subscriber line

What does digital subscriber line mean?

digital subscriber line means "a generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds".

What is another word for digital subscriber line?

Close synonyms include DSL. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is digital subscriber line a common word?

digital subscriber line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.