Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In telecommunication, the term common-mode interference has the following meanings: 1. Interference that appears between signal leads, or the terminals of a measuring circuit, and ground. 2. A form of coherent interference that affects two or more elements of a network in a similar manner (i.e. , highly coupled) as distinct from locally generated noise or interference that is statistically independent between pairs of network elements. Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.