vocab
Terms
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- Handwriting recognition
- The ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwriting
- Bellicose
- Inclined or eager to fight
- Chicanery
- Deception, trickery stuff.
- Unix
- Multitasking operating system
- Circumlocution
- a roundabout expression
- Acumen
- Keenness and depth of perception, discernment, or discrimination especially in practical matters
- ROM
- A built in memory storage part of the computer
- Bowdlerize
- To expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- 802.11b
- Standard from IEEE for WI Fi
- Antebellum
- Existing before a war
- ASCII
- A standard for assigning numerical values to the set of letters in the Roman alphabet and typographic characters
- Churlish
- of a churl; peasantlike.
- Abstemious
- Restricted to bare necessities
- Arpanet
- The predecessor to the internet
- Capacitor
- An electronic component that stores an electric charge and releases it when required. It comes in a huge variety of sizes and types for use in regulating power as well as for conditioning, smoothing and isolating signals.
- Accentuate
- To emphasis or prominence to
- Transistor
- a semiconductor device that amplifies, oscillates, or switches the flow of current between two terminals by varying the current or voltage between one of the terminals and a third: although much smaller in size than a vacuum tube, it performs similar functions without requiring current to heat a cathode.
- Chromosome
- A circular strand of DNA in bacteria that contains the hereditary information necessary for cell life.
- Abrogate
- To abolish, do away with
- ANSEL
- An ANSI character set that supports diacritical marks for Latin-based foreign languages
- Archie
- a male given name
- CCD
- An instrument whose semiconductors are connected so that the output of one serves as the input of the next
- Auspicious
- Favored by fortune
- Postscript (adobe)
- The leading graphics and desktop publishing software company
- Belie
- Show to be false
- RAM
- Computer memory that can be accessed randomly
- Bios
- The built in software that allows a computer to access programs without a disk
- Colloquialism
- Colloquial style or usage