A line of bearing to a known origin or reference, upon which a vessel is assumed to be located An LOP is determined by observation (visual bearing) or measurement (radar, horizontal sextant angles) An LOP is assumed to be a straight line for visual bearings, or an arc of a circle (radar range)
Loss of Pointer: A condition at the receiver or a maintenance signal transmitted in the PHY overhead indicating that the receiving equipment has lost the pointer to the start of cell in the payload This is used to monitor the performance of the PHY layer
If you lop an amount of money or time off something such as a budget or a schedule, you reduce the budget or schedule by that amount. The Air France plane lopped over four hours off the previous best time More than 100 million pounds will be lopped off the prison building programme. To hang or let hang loosely; droop
To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to shoorten by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove, as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches
Loss of pointer Failure state in the SONET signal where a receiving network cannot identify or lock on the pointer value of the header one and two bytes to show the location of synchronous payload envelope (SPE)
If you lop something off, you cut it away from what it was attached to, usually with a quick, strong stroke. Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips. men with axes, lopping off branches His ponytail had been lopped off. = chop