Drop (and variants of Drop)

Drop:
1. A wire or cable from a pole or cable terminal to a building.
2. That portion of a device that looks toward the internal station facilities, e.g., toward an AUTOVON 4-wire switch, toward a switchboard, or toward a switching center.
3. Single channel attachment to the horizontal wiring grid (wall plate, coupling, MOD-MOD adapter).
4. The CO (central office) side of test jacks.
5. To delete, intentionally or unintentionally, part of a signal for some reason, e.g., dropping bits.

Drop Cable:
1. The outside wire pair which connects your house or office to the transmission line coming from the phone company's CO.
2. In local area networks, a cable that connects a network device such as a computer to a physical medium such as an Ethernet network. Drop cable is also called transceiver cable because it runs from a network node to a transceiver (a transmit/receiver) attached to the trunk cable.

Drop Loop: The segment of wire from the nearest telephone pole to your home or business.

Drop Wire: Wires going from your phone company to the 66 Block (type of punchdown block used to connect sets of wires in a telephone system) or protector in your building.