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n. The last breath taken before death
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A dying gasp is a message (or signal) sent by the customer premises equipment (CPE) DSL device to the digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) when a power outage occurs. A DSL interface with dying gasp must derive power for a brief period from another source so that the message can be sent without external power. The dying gasp message will end the session and a new session will be able to be made as soon as power returns and the modem retrains.
Dying Gasp is referenced in section 7.1.2.5.3 of ITU-T Recommendation G.991.2 (12/2003) as the Power Status bit.
Usage examples of "dying gasp".
The sail slackened, although the sailors desperately tacked again and caught the last dying gasp of the breeze.
His book had fallen into his lap and his face was tinged with the dying gasp of the setting sun as he stared sightlessly at the angry sky.
The dying gasp, as you put it, would be gravitational potential energy, released as radiation when a star’.
The dying gasp, as you put it, would be gravitational potential energy, released as radiation when a star's own fires are all exhausted.
The manager, apprehensive himself about the dying gasp of Cycle 20, wanted to find substance in the young man’.
Brother Francis found himself slightly confused by the Warning, but he intended to heed it by not touching the door at all The miraculous contraptions of the ancients were not to be carelessly tampered with, as many a dead excavator-of-the-past had testified with his dying gasp.
The miraculous contraptions of the ancients were not to be carelessly tampered with, as many a dead excavator-of-the-past had testified with his dying gasp.
As Scaurus stepped past them, one made a ghastly gurgle, like the dying gasp of a man with a slit throat.