Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun asynchronous_transfer_mode

1 sense of asynchronous transfer mode

Sense 1
asynchronous transfer mode, ATM -- (a means of digital communications that is capable of very high speeds; suitable for transmission of images or voice or video as well as data; "ATM is used for both LAN and WAN")
       => digital communication, data communication -- (electronic transmission of information that has been encoded digitally (as for storage and processing by computers))