Vocab1
Terms
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- Auspicious
- Promise of happiness.
- Transistor
- A semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electronic signals.
- Antebellum
- Before or existing before the war, esp. the American Civil War.
- ANSI
- American National Standard Institute. A private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems and personnel for the United States.
- Bellicose
- Inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile.
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. 128 codes that distinguish your keys upper and lower punctuation.
- BIOS
- It stands for Basic Input/ Output System. It's basically a type of boot loader.
- 802.11 b or g
- Set of standards from IEEE for wireless local area network (WI-FI).
- Post Script(Adobe)
- Latin expression meaning "after writing." It is a sentence or paragraph added often hastily and incidentally, after the signature of a letter.
- Colloquialism
- A type of expression; style or usage.
- CCD
- Charged Couple Device, located in a digital camera or your scanner, anywhere were you get a digital. image.
- Accentuate
- To give emphasis on something, or prominence to.
- Abrogate
- To abolish by formal or official means.
- Bowdlerize
- To expurgate a written work by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
- RAM
- Random Access Memory. It is a type of storage system.
- Churlish
- like a chore; boorish; rude
- Chicanery
- Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry
- UNIX
- Computer operating system.
- Belie
- To show to be false; contradict
- ROM
- Read Only Memory.
- Capacitor
- it is an electrical/ electronic device that can store energy in the electric field between a pair of conductors (called "plates").
- Handwriting Recognition
- Ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input.
- ARPANET
- Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global internet.
- Archie
- internet database that helps you FTP (file transfer protocol), your files
- Acumen
- Keen insight; shrewdness
- Abstemious
- Sparing or moderate in eating or drinking; temperate in diet.
- Circumlocution
- a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words then necessary to express your idea.
- Chromosome
- Any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs, designated 1 to 22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosomes respectively.