Vocab 1
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- Anonymous Login Convention (FTP)
- Standard username (anonymous) and password (guest) which allows login within FTP for the purpose of retrieving an unprotected file.
- Postscript (Adobe)
- is a dynamically typed concatenative programming language created by John Warnock and Charles Geschke in 1982.
- UNIX
- (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with small caps) is a computer operating system
- BIOS
- is an acronym that stands for the Basic Input/Output System according to the IBM Personal Computer Technical Reference manual or the punctuational variants Basic Input Output System, or Basic Input-Output System.
- Abrogate
- to abolish by formal or official means; to put aside or to put an end to.
- Belie
- to show to be false; contradict; to act unworthily according to the standards of (a tradition, one's ancestry, one's faith, etc.)
- Acumen
- keen insight; shrewdness; Quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight.
- Deciduous
- falling off or shed at a particular season, stage of growth, etc; not permanent;
- Handwriting Recognition
- is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input.
- Deleterious
- injurious to health; harmful;
- Antebellum
- before or existing before the war; Belonging to the period before a war.
- Chicanery
- trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry
- ARPANET
- (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet
- Auspicious
- promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable; favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate
- Bowdlerize
- to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- Analog
- a variable signal continuous in both time and amplitude (as opposed to digital or discrete, e.g. analog wristwatch vs. digital wristwatch)
- Churlish
- like a churl; boorish; rude; peasantlike; mean
- CCD
- A charge-coupled device (CCD) is an analog shift register, enabling analog signals (electric charges) to be transported through successive stages (capacitors) controlled by a clock signal.
- Transistor
- is a semiconductor device commonly used to amplify or switch electronic signals.
- 802.11b or g
- is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 specification that extended throughput to up to 11 Mbit/s using the same 2.4 GHz band. Wireless standards known as Wifi.
- Abstemious
- sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; characterized by abstinence
- RAM
- Random access memory is a type of computer data storage.
- ANSI
- The American National Standards Institute or ANSI is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States.
- Circumnavigate
- to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation
- Accentuate
- to give emphasis or prominence to
- Capacitor
- is an electrical/electronic device that can store energy in the electric field between a pair of conductors (called "plates").
- ROM
- read-only memory, a class of storage media used in computers and other electronic devices.
- Colloquialism
- is an expression not used in formal speech, writing or paralinguistics; slang
- Bellicose
- inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious
- Circumlocution
- a roundabout or indirect way of speaking
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), pronounced /æski/ is a character encoding based on the English alphabet.
- Archie
- is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first Internet search engine.
- BAUD
- In telecommunications and electronics, baud, is synonymous to symbols/s or pulses/s.
- Chromosome
- any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin that carry the genes in a linear order