Chapter 1 VOCAB

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Across
  1. 4. - involves combing through a text document or resource to get valuable structured information
  2. 7. - computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications; bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning; and transaction processing
  3. 8. - facts provided or learned about something or someone
  4. 12. - the programs and other operating information used by a computer
  5. 13. - what is put in, taken in, or operated on by any process or system.
  6. 17. CYCLE - the sequence of events in processing information, which includes (1) input, (2) processing, (3) storage and (4) output
  7. 20. - computer systems that support two or more simultaneous users
  8. 21. - the retention of retrievable data on a computer or other electronic system; memory
  9. 22. - a computer that can conveniently be stored in a pocket (of sufficient size) and used while you're holding it
  10. 23. - a computer or computer program which manages access to a centralized resource or service in a network
  11. 24. - a desktop computer terminal, typically networked and more powerful than a personal computer
  12. 25. - a graphic which is defined by points and has point-wise graphic representations
  13. 28. - is "an ancillary device used to put information into and get information out of the computer"
  14. 30. - a mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an operating system capable of running downloaded applications
  15. 31. - larger smartphone
  16. 32. - a printed version on paper of data held in a computer.
  17. 33. - analog sound wave, that coded in digital form.
Down
  1. 1. - the amount of something produced by a person, machine, or industry
  2. 2. - a hardware device capable of transmitting an analog or digital signal over the telephone, other communication wire, or wirelessly
  3. 3. - the main storage region of a computer, to which the central processor has immediate or direct access.
  4. 5. - a small computing device worn on the body
  5. 6. - a set of integrated devices that input, output, process, and store data and information
  6. 9. - a combined device for modulation and demodulation, for example, between the digital data of a computer and the analog signal of a telephone line
  7. 10. - an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data
  8. 11. - a type of system that has been developed and designed to use on a computer
  9. 14. - perform a series of mechanical or chemical operations on (something) in order to change or preserve it.
  10. 15. - the change of information in any manner detectable by an observer
  11. 16. - a legible version of a piece of data that is not printed on a physical medium, especially as stored or displayed on a computer
  12. 18. - facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis
  13. 19. - an electronic device, generally connected to other devices or networks via different wireless protocols such as Bluetooth, Zigbee, NFC, Wi-Fi, LiFi, 3G, etc., that can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously
  14. 26. - a piece of computer equipment on which information can be stored
  15. 27. - a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer
  16. 29. - physical components to make up a computer system