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Vocabulary from unit 1B

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Request for comments (RFC)   how standards and protocols are defined and published for all to see on the IETF website  
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IP Address   A number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet  
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Packets   Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information  
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Protocol   A set of rules governing the exchange of transmission of data between devices  
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Network Redundancy   Having multiple backups to ensure reliability during cases of high usage or failure  
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Router   A type of compuer that forwards data across a network  
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TCP   Transmission Control Protocol provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked dilvery of a stream of packets on the Internet. TCP is tightly linked with IP and usually seen as TCP/IP in writing.  
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DNS   Domain Name System, the Internet's system for converting alphabetic names into numeric IP addresses  
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Abstraction   A process of hiding the implementation from the user, only the functionality is exposed here. So you aware only of what the application does, not how it does it.  
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Pixel   The smallest element of a picture that can be encoded using bits  
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Metadata   Data that describes other data  
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Raw data   The original data collected  
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RGB   Primary color model used by electronic display devices. Red, green, blue. 101, 010, 001  
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