Computer Vocabulary

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  1. 4. Stands for "Central Processing Unit."
  2. 6. A cathode-ray tube and associated electronics connected to a computer's video output.
  3. 8. a category that holds one type of information.
  4. 10. A kilobyte is 103 or 1,000 bytes.
  5. 12. A gigabyte is 109 or 1,000,000,000 bytes.
  6. 16. A type of application program which manipulates numerical and string data in rows and columns of cells.
  7. 19. an arrow that you can use to point to different objects on your screen.
  8. 20. refers to the physical parts of a computer and related devices.
  9. 21. Uniform Resource Locator: a protocol for specifying addresses on the Internet.
  10. 22. Stands for "Hyper-Text Markup Language."
  11. 23. A program or piece of code, a type of malware, written by a cracker, that "infects" one or more other programs by embedding a copy of itself in them, so that they become Trojan horses.
  12. 24. silicon with an electonic circuit embedded in it.
  13. 28. is a programmable machine.
  14. 30. a person or thing that processes.
  15. 32. Random Access Memory
  16. 33. is a two-digit (Base-2) numerical system
  17. 34. to participate with others through the Internet
  18. 35. an electronic device that makes possible the transmission of data to or from a computer via telephone or other communication lines.
  19. 36. is the World-Wide Web. "A web" is part of it on some specific website.
  20. 37. can refer to any medium of data storage, it usually refers to RAM, or random access memory.
  21. 38. Drive a device that reads and/or writes data to a disk.
  22. 40. is a unit of measurement used to measure data
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  1. 1. A system of computers that are joined together so that they can communicate by exchanging information and sharing resources. ( See Internet and lan.)
  2. 2. is part of the standard TCP/IP set of protocols.
  3. 3. Disk a thin, flexible plastic disk coated with magnetic material, on which data and programs can be stored for later retrieval: used mainly with microcomputers.
  4. 5. the smallest element of an image that can be individually processed in a video display system.
  5. 7. a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide (usually preceded by the ). The Internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols.
  6. 9. is a data structure that stores organized information.
  7. 11. is used for connecting to the Internet
  8. 13. to clear (internal memory, a disk, etc.) of previous data in preparation for use.
  9. 14. a copy of computer data
  10. 15. Drive is what stores all your data. It houses the hard disk, where all your files and folders are physically located.
  11. 17. Any part of a computer other than the CPU or working memory, i.e. disks, keyboards, monitors, mice, printers, scanners, tape drives, microphones, speakers, cameras, to list just the less exotic ones.
  12. 18. is the program people use to access the World Wide Web
  13. 19. is a specific location within a spreadsheet
  14. 25. the process in which data is sent to your computer.
  15. 26. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware
  16. 27. A megabyte is 106 or 1,000,000 bytes.
  17. 29. a group of related fields that store data about a subject (master record) or activity
  18. 31. An input device that takes in an optical image and digitises it into an electronic image represented as binary data.
  19. 34. ROM Stands for "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory."
  20. 39. An icon on your computer screen represents an object or a program on your hard drive.
  21. 40. comes from the phrase "Binary DigIT,"