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- the act of putting to a special uses or purpose: |
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lets you organize concepts together in sets. When searching computer databases, including keyword searching of the online catalog, these sets are controlled by use of Boolean operators OR, AND, and NOT: |
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the act or process of communicating; fact of being communicated.
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| CPU Central Processing Unit |
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central processing unit: the key component of a computer system, which contains the circuitry necessary to interpret and execute program instructions. |
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a camera that records and stores digital images. |
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a camera used for electronic motion picture acquisition, initially developed by the television industry but now common in other applications as well.
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to transfer (software, data, character sets, etc.) from a distant to a nearby computer, from a larger to a smaller computer, or from a computer to a peripheral device.
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a system for sending messages from one individual to another via telecommunications links between computers or terminals. |
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the mechanical, magnetic, electronic, and electrical devices comprising a computer system, as the CPU, disk drives, keyboard, or screen.
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| HyperText Markup language: a set of standards, a variety of SGML, used to tag the elements of a hypertext document. It is the standard protocol for formatting and displaying documents on the World Wide Web. Compare http. |
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| a reference to data that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically |
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| a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide (usually preceded by the). The Internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols. |
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a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws:
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| the programs used to direct the operation of a computer, as well as documentation giving instructions on how to use them |
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to search haphazardly, as for information on a computer network or an interesting program on television. |
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| the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science. |
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| Uniform Resource Locator: a protocol for specifying addresses on the Internet. |
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a segment of self-replicating code planted illegally in a computer program, often to damage or shut down a system or network. |
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| abbreviation for World Wide Web |
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