In civilian telecommunications, outside plant refers to all of the physical cabling and supporting infrastructure (such as conduit, cabinets, tower or poles), and any associated hardware (such as repeaters) located between a demarcation point in a switching facility and a demarcation point in another switching center or customer premises.
Summary: A Hezbollah suspect allegedly involved in the attempted assassination of MP Boutros Harb last year failed once again to appear in court Friday and faces the possibility of a trial in absentia.
Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Absent(adj) being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present. 2  Absent(adj) not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent. 3  Absent(adj) inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.