On this page about Singulation:
Singulation is a means by which an RFID reader identifies a tag with a specific serial number from a number of tags in its field. This is necessary because if multiple tags respond simultaneously to a query, they will jam each other. In a typical commercial application, such as scanning a bag of groceries, potentially hundreds of tags might be within range of the reader.
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latter are perhaps better viewed as singulative.) Nouns do not have arbitrary gender; however, as in...
privacy issue is due to RFID's support for a singulation (anti-collision) protocol. This is the means by...
. The 'feminine' gender is also used to express 'singulatives'. The marker for the feminine gender is a...