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- 2. is a specific location within a spreadsheet and is defined by the intersection of a row and column.
- 4. A cathode-ray tube and associated electronics connected to a computer's video output.
- 5. is the program people use to access the World Wide Web.
- 10. 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.
- 11. is used for connecting to the Internet and is much faster than a typical dial-up modem.
- 12. can refer to any medium of data storage, it usually refers to RAM, or random access memory.
- 14. Drive is what stores all your data. It houses the hard disk, where all your files and folders are physically located.
- 16. a person or thing that processes.
- 17. refers to the physical parts of a computer and related devices.
- 18. Uniform Resource Locator
- 19. to clear (internal memory, a disk, etc.) of previous data in preparation for use.
- 20. A megabyte is 106 or 1,000,000 bytes.
- 22. A gigabyte is 109 or 1,000,000,000 bytes.
- 26. comes from the phrase "Binary DigIT," which is different than that thing you put around a horse's mouth.
- 27. to participate with others, through the Internet, in a real-time conversation in a chat room by typing one's contributions to the topics under discussion on one's computer and reading others' typed contributions on one's screen.
- 28. the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them. Compare hardware
- 29. Drive A disk drive is a device that reads and/or writes data to a disk.
- 30. Stands for "Central Processing Unit."
- 32. A kilobyte is 103 or 1,000 bytes.
- 35. a group of related fields that store data about a subject (master record) or activity
- 37. 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.
- 38. the smallest element of an image that can be individually processed in a video display system.
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- 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. is a programmable machine.
- 3. is the World-Wide Web. "A web" is part of it on some specific website.
- 6. A type of application program which manipulates numerical and string data in rows and columns of cells.
- 7. An input device that takes in an optical image and digitises it into an electronic image represented as binary data.
- 8. is most often an arrow that you can use to point to different objects on your screen.
- 9. is a data structure that stores organized information.
- 13. 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.
- 15. This is the process in which data is sent to your computer.
- 20. an electronic device that makes possible the transmission of data to or from a computer via telephone or other communication lines.
- 21. is a unit of measurement used to measure data. One byte contains eight binary bits, or a series of eight zeros and ones.
- 23. 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.
- 24. a copy of computer data (as a file or the contents of a hard drive)
- 25. is part of the standard TCP/IP set of protocols.
- 30. ROM Stands for "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory."
- 31. is a two-digit (Base-2) numerical system, which computers use to store data and compute functions.
- 33. Stands for "Hyper-Text Markup Language."
- 34. is a piece of silicon with an electonic circuit embedded in it.
- 36. Random Access Memory
- 37. In a database record, a category that holds one type of information.
- 39. An icon on your computer screen represents an object or a program on your hard drive.