Vocabulary
Terms
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- Postscript
- made my adobe to put stuff into code.
- Archie
- an Internet database used to search for files and programs that can be downloaded using FTP. The master server is at McGill University in Montreal.
- Accentuate
- to make a feature of something more noticeable.
- ANSI
- American National Standards Institute, a general standards organization in the United States that facilitates the voluntary establishment of standards for many areas, including computing. The staff at ANSI doesn't create standards; they coordinate with organizations in the US to provide a neutral forum for the development of standards.
- Capacitor
- an electrical component, used to store a charge temporarily, consisting of two conducting surfaces separated by a nonconductor dielectric.
- Bellicose
- inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
- ARPANET
- A computer network developed by the Advanced Research Project Agency (now the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency) in the 1960s and 1970s as a means of communication between research laboratories and universities. ARPANET was the predecessor to the Internet.
- ASCII
- a standard that identifies letters, numbers, and various symbols by code numbers for exchanging data between different computer systems. 128 codes that distinguish your keys; upper and lower and punctuation.
- Auspicious
- promising success.
- Article
- a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
- Antebellum
- before or existing before the war.
- Churlish
- characteristic of somebody with bad manners.
- Chromosome
- a rod-shaped structure, usually found in pairs in a cell nucleus that carries the genes that determine sex and the characteristics an organism inherits from its parents. A human body cell usually contains 46 chromosomes arranged in 23 pairs.
- Abstemious
- eating or drinking in moderation.
- Chicanery
- deception or trickery, especially by the clever manipulation of language
- Acumen
- the ability to make quick accurate intelligent judgments about people or situations.
- Belie
- to show to be false.
- Circumlocution
- the use of more words than necessary to express something, especially to avoid saying it directly.
- Colloquialism
- an informal word or phrase that is more common in conversation than in formal speech or writing.
- RAM
- a device designed to batter, crush, press, or push something, e.g. a projecting underwater part of a boat's prow or the weight dropped by a pile driver.
- BIOS
- basic input output system.
- ROM
- a member of a nomadic people who migrated from South Asia to Europe in the 15th century and now live throughout the world.
- Keyboard
- the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like. a set of keys, usually arranged in tiers, for operating a typewriter, typesetting machine, computer terminal, or the like.
- 802.11 b or g
- standard from IEEE for WI-FI.
- Abrogate
- to end an agreement or contract formally and publicly.
- CCD
- charge coupled device, you can find them anywhere that a digital image is located.
- UNIX
- a trademark for a widely used computer operating system, developed in 1969 at AT&T bell laboratories that can support multitasking in a multi-user environment.
- Bowdlerize
- to remove parts of a work of literature that are considered indecent.