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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) |