Vocab
Computer Applicaton Voacbulary Words
Terms
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- Archie
- Archie is a tool indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first Internet search engine.
- BIOS
- an acronym that stands for the Basic Input/Output System according to the IBM Personal Computer Technical Reference manual or the punctuation variants Basic Input Output System, or Basic Input-Output System.
- Antebellum
- before or existing before the war, esp. the American Civil War.
- Acumen
- keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- Chromosome
- any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs, designated 1 to 22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosome respectively.
- Churlish
- like a churl; boorish; rude: churlish behavior, difficult to work or deal with, as soil.
- Bellicose
- inclined o eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- ROM
- class of storage media used in computers and other electronic devices. This tells the computer how to load the operating system.
- Abrogate
- to abolish by formal or official means; annual by an authoritative act; repeal. to put aside; put an end to.
- 802.11 b/g
- an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 specification that extended throughput to up to 11 Mbit/s using the same 2.4 GHz band. A set of standards to govern wireless networking transmission methods.
- Auspicious
- promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion. favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate.
- Capacitor
- a electrical device that can store energy in the electric field between a pair of conductors is known as "charging", and involves electric charges of equal magnitude, but opposite polarity, building up on each plate.
- Transistor
- a semiconductor device commonly used to amplify or switch electronic signals. A digital switch on a circuit that make up electronic devices.
- Unix
- a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy.
- ANSI
- The American National Standards Institute 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.
- Chicanery
- trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry; a quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade.
- ARPANET
- the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet developed by ARPA the United States Department of Defense.
- Circumlocution
- a roundabout or indirect way speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. A roundabout expression.
- Handwriting Recognition
- the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input.
- Belie
- to show to be false; contradict. To misrepresent. To act unworthily according to the standards of 9a tradition, one's ancestry, one's faith, etc. to lie about; slander.
- CCD
- A charge coupled device is an analog shift register, enabling analog signals (electric charges) to be transported through successive stages (capacitors) controlled by a clock signal.
- Colliquialism
- a colloquial expression; colloquial style or usage.
- Bowdlerize
- to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- ACII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character encoding based on the English Alphabet, represents text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text.
- Accentuate
- to give emphasis or prominence to. To mark or pronounce with an accent. emphasis on a word
- Postscript
- is a dynamically typed concatenate programming language created by John Warnock and Charles in 1982. PostScript is best known for its use as a page description language in the electronic and desktop publishing areas.
- RAM
- a type of computer data storage that takes the form of integrated circuits that allow the stored data to e accessed in any order, i.e. at random.
- Abstemious
- sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet. characterized by abstinence: not indulging.