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