jamming
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“Wait now, I didn’t—” The caller begins to protest, but he’s too late; I’m already jamming the other end of the cord into the corresponding jack for the telephone number.
From Literature
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"If you look at a map of GPS jamming at the moment in the Middle East, you see that there's a lot of jamming... By not using the GPS, you avoid that."
From Barron's
Ukraine built a layered defense using truck-mounted machine guns, drone interceptors, and electronic jamming against Russian drones.
Tehran’s military is also jamming signals in ways that could put ships at risk of colliding.
Signal jamming is also causing many ships to transmit misleading location data.
From BBC
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