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out-of-band is an adjective:
- (communications engineering) Out-of-band signaling describes signals that are sent between two parties or two devices that are sent via a path or method different from that of the primary communication between the two parties or devices.
"2001 In this additional spectrum, in-band signaling was sent down the wires outside the frequencies used for conversation. Actually, the signals were sent across the 3,500- and 3,700-Hz frequencies. Although these worked and were not in the talk path (out of the band) they were limited in the number of tones that could be sent. — Regis J. Bates and Donald W. Gregory, Voice and Data Communications Handbook, 2001, [http://books.google.com/books?id=k_31O6xdk_4C&printsec=frontcover#PPA841,M1 page 841]" - Out-of-band communication or out-of-band identity verification involves a program or authentication system's challenge and response to a user via a method other than the primary means of accessing the software. For example, a web application might request verification of a user's identity by sending that user an IM, rather than by presenting a web form for username and password entry.
"2007 One great way of solving the phishing problem is doing out-of-band authentication. — Simon Willison, [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2288395847791059857 Google Tech Talks: The Implications of OpenID], 2007, at approximately 22:30"
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What type of word is out-of-band?
- Adjective usage: 2001 In this additional spectrum, in-band signaling was sent down the wires outside the frequencies used for conversation. Actually, the signals were sent across the 3,500- and 3,700-Hz frequencies. Although these worked and were not in the talk path (out of the band) they were limited in the number of tones that could be sent. — Regis J. Bates and Donald W. Gregory, Voice and Data Communications Handbook, 2001, [http://books.google.com/books?id=k_31O6xdk_4C&printsec=frontcover#PPA841,M1 page 841]
- Adjective usage: 2007 One great way of solving the phishing problem is doing out-of-band authentication. — Simon Willison, [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2288395847791059857 Google Tech Talks: The Implications of OpenID], 2007, at approximately 22:30
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of out-of-band are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of out-of-band, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
