Vocabulary
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- Archie-
- Archie (Linux), a Live CD version of Arch Linux
- Ram
- is a type of computer data storage. Today it takes the form of integrated circuits that allow the stored data to be accessed in any order, i.e. at random. The word random thus refers to the fact that any piece of data can be returned in a constant time, regardless of its physical location and whether or not it is related to the previous piece of data.
- ANSI-
- The American National Standards Institute or ANSI (pronounced /ˈænsiː/) 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. The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with international standards so that American products can be used worldwide. For example, standards make sure that people who own cameras can find the film they need for that camera anywhere around the globe.
- Translator
- Translation is the action of interpretation of the meaning of a text, and subsequent production of an equivalent text, also called a translation, that communicates the same message in another language. The text to be translated is called the source text, and the language it is to be translated into is called the target language; the final product is sometimes called the "target text."
- Postscript (Adobe)
- is a sentence, paragraph, or occasionally many paragraphs added, often hastily and incidentally, after the signature of a letter or (sometimes) the main body of an essay or book.
- ASCII-
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), pronounced /ˈæski/[1] is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings—which support many more characters than did the original—have a historical basis in ASCII.
- ARPANET-
- The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) developed by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet.
- Accentuate-
- stress or emphasize and it also means to pronounce with stress or accent.
- BIOS-
- BIOS in part refers to the firmware code run by a PC when first powered on, which is a type of boot loader. The primary function of the BIOS is to identify and initialize system component hardware (such as the video display card, hard disk, and floppy).
- Acumen
- keen insight; shrewdness: remarkable acumen in business matters.
- Capacitor-
- A capacitor is an electrical/electronic device that can store energy in the electric field between a pair of conductors (called "plates"). The process of storing energy in the capacitor is known as "charging", and involves electric charges of equal magnitude, but opposite polarity, building up on each
- 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 chromosomes respectively.
- Chicanery
- trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry: He resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the job.
- Churlish
- like a churl; boorish; rude: churlish behavior.
- Belie
- to show to be false; contradict: His trembling hands belied his calm voice.
- Abstemious
- sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
- Circumlocution
- A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
- Abrogate
- to end in agreement
- Antebellum
- before or existing before the war, esp. the American Civil War.
- Bowdlerize
- to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- Colloquialism
- colloquial style or usage, a colloquial expression.
- Bellicose
- inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- Auspicious
- promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.
- Handwriting Recognition
- the computers ability to read handwriting on a computer
- Rom
- computer memory in which program instructions, operating procedures, or other data are permanently stored, generally on electronic chips during manufacture and that ordinarily cannot be changed by the user.
- CCD
- Charge-coupled device, an electronic light sensor used in digital cameras .ccd, the file extension for CloneCD's CD image file Compact Compact Disc, also known as MiniCD
- UNIX-
- Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as UNIX with small caps) is 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. Today's Unix systems are split into various branches, developed over time by AT&T as well as various commercial vendors and non-profit organizations.