Spread spectrum. In telecommunication and radio communication, spread-spectrum techniques are methods by which a signal (e.g., an electrical, electromagnetic, or acoustic signal) generated with a particular bandwidth is deliberately spread in the frequency domain, resulting in a signal with a wider bandwidth.
Lipids are one of the four major groups of organic molecules; the other three being proteins, nucleic acids (DNA), and carbohydrates (sugars). Lipids are made up of the same elements as carbohydrates: carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
All living things contain organic macromolecules: Lipids, proteins, carbohydrates and nucleic acids. Characteristic for these organic molecules is that they are made up of only a small number of elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and to smaller amounts nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur. Lipids are also an important component of the cell membrane. 2  Lipids consist of glycerol and fatty acids tails. 3  The fatty acid tails are long chains of carbon and hydrogen that contribute to the non-polar behavior of fats-they don't mix with (polar) water.