Term
click below
click below
Term
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Tech. study guide
Technology vocabulary study guide
Term | Definition |
---|---|
.com | A website extension that identifies the site as a commercial site |
.edu | A website extension that identifies the site as an educational institution, college or university |
.org | A website extension that identifies the site as a non-profit/non-governmental organization |
Alias | A file that points to another item, such as a program, document, folder, or disk. |
C++ | A popular programming language |
Cc | Carbon copy or Confidential Copy—send a copy of an email to another person |
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read-Only Memory) | a storage media that is able to store up to 660MB of information (e.g., text, graphics, audio, and full-motion video) |
Configure | to set the details or structure of a system (e.g., operating system) |
Copyright | Form of protection for original works done |
CPU | Central Processing Unit. Brain of the computer |
Dingbats | Picture fonts |
Drill down | Moving from a general level to a detailed level |
Ethernet | a system for connecting a number of computer systems to form a LAN |
Processor - the central processing unit | the central processing unit |
Trade mark | word name or symbol used to trade, indicate source of goods, and to distinguish them |
Terabyte | It's about a trillion bytes and is 2 to the 40th power or 1,009,511,627,776 bytes |
Curriculum Framework | provides curriculum content, organization, and presentation |
Environmental Probe | computer peripheral that senses environmental data and communicates reading into computer |
FAQ | acronym for Frequently Asked Questions |
GIF | image format, an acronym for Graphical Interchange Format |
Graphic Applications Software | computer software that enables the user to create or manipulate graphs and images |
Graphic organizing software | Visual representation of the material a student is learning |
Hits | number of matches made by a search engine like Google in a search. |
Hour glass | picture showing that the computer is “thinking” before it performs your command |
HTML | coding language used to create internet documents |
Intranet | local or restricted communications network, especially a private network |
ISP (Internet Service Provider) | A group that provides access to the internet. |
Macro | A series of actions that occur following one key stroke |
Platform | computer hardware and the operating system that runs on it |
Curriculum Framework | provides curriculum content, organization, and presentation |
Environmental Probe | computer peripheral that senses environmental data and communicates reading into computer |
FAQ | acronym for Frequently Asked Questions |
GIF | image format, an acronym for Graphical Interchange Format |
Graphic Applications Software | computer software that enables the user to create or manipulate graphs and images |
Graphic organizing software | Visual representation of the material a student is learning |
Hits | number of matches made by a search engine like Google in a search. |
Hour glass | picture showing that the computer is “thinking” before it performs your command |
HTML | coding language used to create internet documents |
Intranet | local or restricted communications network, especially a private network |
ISP (Internet Service Provider) | A group that provides access to the internet. |
Macro | A series of actions that occur following one key stroke |
Platform | computer hardware and the operating system that runs on it |
Chevron | Double arrows at end of tool bar that allow you to show buttons on two rows |
Clipboard | program that saves information you copy, to be pasted into a program later |
Data | Anything that is recorded or used for processing or anything that transfers |
Database | One or more large structured sets of persistent data, associated with software to update/query data. |
Digital | a series of small samples of data playing together very quickly (30,000 times a second) |