Computer Vocabulary
Computer Applications vocabulary.
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- Belie
- to show to be false; contradict; to misrepresent
- Analog
- a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input
- Rom
- (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed
- Circumlocution
- is a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
- UNIX
- 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
- Capacitor
- an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge, An electrical device that stores electric charge and energy
- Bowdlerize
- To revise written work by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable
- Chromosome
- A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.
- Postscript
- additional information added to the end of a letter or other document
- Arpanet
- was developed be ARPA of the U.S department of defense, and was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet. It is the dominant basis for both data and voice communication worldwide.
- Antebellum
- the time before the Civl War
- Abrogate
- to put an end to, abolish by authority
- Baud
- is synonymous to symbols/s or pulses/s. It is the unit of symbol rate, also known as baud rate or modulation rate
- 802.11b
- 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
- Anonymous
- a common way to make software available; users are allowed to log in as 'guest' without a password and copy whatever has been made available.
- Bellicose
- Eager to fight
- Circumnavigate
- to sail or fly around
- Archie
- A service that indexes files found on FTP servers.
- Acumen
- shrewdness shown by keen insight
- CCD
- A semiconducter with a grid of light sensitive elements used for converting light images
- Deciduous
- off or shed at a particular season, stage of growth
- 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.
- Handwriting Recognition
- is the ability of a computer to receive intelligible handwritten input. The image of the written text may be sensed "off ...
- Bios
- this is the software stored on a chip that is a set of instructions for necessary functions in a computer.
- Accentuate
- to stress or emphasize; intesify
- Churlish
- is a characteristic of somebody who has bad manners.
- Colloquialism
- spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
- Transistor
- in electronics, common name for a group of electronic devices used as amplifiers or oscillators in communications, control, and computer systems.
- Ram
- Random access memory, where programs and data are temporarily stored.
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange pronounced is a character encoding based on the English alphabet.
- Deleterious
- Having a harmful effect
- Quizlet
- an online quiz builder that you have to use a computer to take a quiz or test
- Chicanery
- trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry
- Auspicious
- attended by favorable circumstances
- Abstemious
- sparing in eating and drinking; temperate.