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Vocabulary Words
Computer Apps 2 Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| .org | A website extension that identifies the site as a non-profit, non-governmental organization |
| Alias | file that points to another item, such as a program, document, folder, or disk. When an alias is opened, the original item that the alias points to is opened. This helps in the organizing and accessing of files. Alias is purely a Mac term. |
| Application | A software program that lets you complete a task, such as writing a paper, creating a poster, designing an image, or viewing a Web page. |
| Buffer | The buffer is a section of the computer where data is stored before being used. This buffering allows time for an application to fix differences in bit rates among other things. It creates a space of time for compensation. |
| Byte | A unit of space. It is also used to represent a series of seven or eight ASCII code digits representing a character. |
| Cache | A memory section of the hard drive that holds information while the CPU is working on it |
| 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) |
| Cells | The intersection of a row and a column in Excel—where data can be inserted |
| Chevron | Double arrows at end of tool bar that allow you to show buttons on two rows |
| Clipboard | A windows program that saves information you copy, to be pasted into a program later |
| Configure | to set the details or structure of a system (e.g., operating system) |
| Content Standard | a description of what students should know and be able to do within a particular discipline or content domain |
| Curriculum Framework | serves as a bridge between standards and the classroom and provides curriculum content, organization, and presentation |
| Curriculum Standard | activities used in classroom instruction to teach the benchmarked standard |
| Cursor | visually distinct mark on a display indicating where newly typed text will be inserted. The cursor moves as text is typed and, in most modern editors, can be moved around within a document by the user to change the insertion point. |
| Database | One or more large structured sets of persistent data, usually associated with software to update and query the data. |
| Dialog Box | A box that contains a message, often requesting more information or allowing you to select among options |
| Domain | A group of computers whose hostnames share a common suffix, the "domain name". The last component of this is the top-level domain. |
| Drill down | Moving from a general level to a detailed level |
| Environmental Probe | computer peripheral that senses environmental data and communicates reading directly into the computer for recording and storage (e.g., pH sensor, humidity sensor) |
| Ethernet | a system for connecting a number of computer systems to form a LAN, with protocols to control the passing of information and to avoid simultaneous transmission by two or more systems |
| Export | To save data or pictures in a form other programs can read |
| Footer | Information that appears at the foot of every page—usually the name, page number and document title |
| Formula | always starts with “=” signs and describes what the calculations for that cell will be, i.e., add, subtract, etc. GIF - An image format, an acronym for Graphical Interchange Format |
| Graphic Applications Software | one of a number of types of computer software that enables the user to create or manipulate illustrations, graphs, drafting products, and a variety of other images |
| Graphic organizing software | Visual representation of the material a student is learning (e.g charts |
| Graphing Calculator | a hand-held calculator that, in addition to performing calculations and functional operations, can graph functions and relations |
| Header | Information that appears at the head of every page in a document—usually the author’s name, the document title and the page number |
| Hits | The number of matches made by a search engine like Google in a search |
| Hour glass | The picture showing that the computer is “thinking” before it performs your command |
| Hover | To “float” the cursor over a command until some information shows |
| Hypertext | This is a markup language that allows for non-linear transfers of data. The method allows your computer to provide the computational power rather than attaching to a mainframe and waiting for it to do the work for you. |
| Input device | A peripheral used to transfer data from the outside world into a computer system. Some input devices are operated directly by the user, e.g. keyboard, mouse, touch screen, joystick, digitising tablet, microphone; |
| Intranet | a local or restricted communications network, especially a private network created using World Wide Web software |
| ISP (Internet Service Provider) | A group that provides access to the internet. An acronym for Internet Service Provider |
| Java | A program that recreates information so it can be read by most computers |
| Jump drive | Memory stick—portable place to save files |
| Macro | A series of actions that occur following one key stroke |
| Master-slave | The relationship between a dominant drive and the secondary one |
| Menu Bar | The word commands at the top of a program that activate drop-down menus |
| Mouse-over | To “float” the cursor over a command until some information shows |
| Multimedia | the combination of audio, video, animation, and graphics used to disseminate information under computer control Netiquette - Proper manners on the internet |
| Numbered outline | An indented list using numbers/ letters to organize information |
| Output devices | equipment connected to a computer and used to transfer data out of the computer in the form of text, images, sounds or other media to a display screen, printer, loudspeaker or storage device. |
| Overwrite- | Destroy (data) or the data in (a file) by entering new data in its place |
| Photo-manipulation | the ability to alter a scanned photo image |
| Platform | computer hardware and the operating system that runs on it (e.g., a Macintosh computer or Windows-based PC) |
| Presentation Hardware/Software | computer hardware/software designed to support presentations involving multimedia (e.g., PowerPoint) |
| Router | a device that forwards data packets to the appropriate parts of a computer network |
| Search Engine | software that allows retrieval of information from electronic databases (library catalogs, CD-ROMs, the Web) by locating user-defined characteristics of data such as word patterns, dates, or file formats |
| Shortcut | A file that points to another item, such as a program, document, folder, or disk. Key strokes that enact the same commandsavailable in the menus of a program. |
| Software- | This is a program, the actual code the computer reads. All other stuff is hardware. A floppy disc is hardware. |
| Spyware- | is a type of malware (malicious software) installed on computers that collects information about users without their knowledge. |
| Standard | a description of what students should know and be able to do at the highest level of generality (e.g. concept) |
| Switch | is a computer networking device that connects network segments |
| Taskbar | The gray bar at the bottom of the desktop showing what programs are open |
| Telecommunications | includes all types of electronic communication services, including satellite, fiber-optic, computer-based transmission, telephone, and radio |
| Terabyte- | (TB) It's about a trillion bytes. Actually it's 2 to the 40th power or 1,009,511,627,776 bytes. |
| Trademark | is a word, name, symbol, or device which is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others |
| Transition | The way one slide goes into another |
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