We hate grammatical errors with passion. Learn More. Does anyone know how it came to be? That's military jargon, though I've read it in an old CB operations guide. There are two scales to measure how well you are hearing someone on the radio: Strength and clarity of transmision. Since its a five-point scale, a signal of 'five by five' would be the optimum values. Something worse would be 'two by two' for instance.
So the comment of 'five by five' in this case would indicate that they were feeling in the optimum best of health. Bryan1 Oct I first heard it in James Camerons' Aliens movie. The female transport pilot says the following during takoff, "In the pipe, five by five. It has since been used in the game StarCraft by Blizzard Entertainment. The pilots of the Human shuttle's are female and say this sometimes when you click on them.
Buffy was probably just using it because it became sort of a geek thing to say after the StarCraft inclusion. Neil1 Oct It's usually a military term. There are 5 levels of reception, five being the best. People say stuff like: "Testing, testing, one two three four, five by five. Michael2 Jan Brian and Michael have pretty much hit it on the head.
Do note, however that I don't think it's necessarily military. It applies in all forms of radio communication. It is actually an officially documented expression for all licensed FCC radio communications, ham radio, aircraft communications, etc.
Jackal Feb Bryan1 Jun In voice procedure the techniques used to facilitate spoken communication over two-way radios a station may request a report on the quality and strength of signal they are broadcasting. In the military of the NATO countries, and other organizations, the signal quality is reported on two scales; the first is for signal strength, and the second for signal clarity.
Both these scales range from one to five, where one is the worst and five is the best. The listening station reports these numbers separated with the word "by". Five by five therefore means a signal that has excellent strength and perfect clarity — the most understandable signal possible. Five by five by extension has come to mean "I understand you perfectly" in situations other than radio communication, the way Loud and Clear entered slang, post-WW2.
Faith Lehane, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, used it frequently as slang meaning that things were good. The phrase was not fully understood by other characters Tara Maclay: Five what by five what? In the second season episode "All Too Human", Trance Gemini uses the phrase to indicate that the ship is battle-ready. Ellie Arroway, uses the term to signify clear communication between her space pod and mission control.
Meg Austin uses the phrase "five by five, sir" in response to a command by Lt. Harm Rabb. I thought that it meant "square. Then they would say, stop being such a square man. However, I believe faith used 5x5 as slang for L7, which according to wikipedia means: The term "square", in referring to a person, originally meant someone who was honest, traditional, and loyal.
For further clarity not to insult anyones intelligence , if you have a box that is 5 inches in length and 5 inches in width, then you have a "square" box. I guess that means the box is loyal to you?! Joined Sep 1, Messages Age 29 Location england. Blondie Bear Zydrate Addict. As in conversation by radio, this means "Do you understand me?
Joined Sep 30, Messages 16, Age 74 Location rome, georgia. I agree that the expression is Faith-esque for "Loud and clear" or whatever, indicating an optimal condition. I just wonder where she would have come up with such a relatively obscure expression in the first place.
Therein, I believe, lies a tale. Did some-one mention that it's the human equivalent of two Dolphins telepathically communicating about how tasty the fish are near the east coast of America?. If you want to know about what 5 x 5 means, don't read this post, although if you've read this, oops! Randy Giles Two sides to every soul. I think she usually meant it as "Everything's good" or "perfect" or "I'm great". StuckinTraffic Miss Treager.
How's my signal? Five by five. Term meaning everything is OK. The term comes from old radio slang. When communicating over radio, the operator would report the strength and clarity of the signal on a scale of 1 to 5 each. Therefore, if a radio operator described the signal as "five by five" it meant it was both loud and clear. I don't use the phrase "five by five" because they use it on Buffy. A term used by Faith on Buffy , to discribe a situation as ok.
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