Hardware Terminology

2. A device or system that represents changing values as continuously variable physical quantities.
3. The translation of data into a secret code.
5. A parallel interface for connecting an external device such as a printer.
8. defined as the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time or range within a band of frequencies or wavelengths.
9. basic input/output system, the built-in software that determines what a computer can do without accessing programs from a disk.
10. Used to lower the temperature of an electronic device by dissipating heat into the surrounding air
12. A boundary across which two independent systems meet and act on or communicate with each other. In computer technology
14. The main circuit board of a microcomputer.
16. Types of Universal Serial Bus devices and standards
17. A metal bridge that closes an electrical circuit.
18. Central Process Unit

1. Random Access Memory
2. is the circuitry required to support a device.
4. the chip or chips that connect a CPU to memory and chips communicate with the CPU through the FSB.
6. A storage medium from which data is read and to which it is written by lasers.
7. The part of a cable that plugs into a port or interface to connect one device to another.
8. A collection of wires through which data is transmitted from one part of a computer to another.
11. a program that controls a device
13. measured in hertz
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