Technology Vocabulary 2
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- What is the hardware?
- The physical equipment of a computer, such as the screen/monitor, the keyboard, the CPU, and the storage device.
- What is a keyboard?
- An input device resembling a typewriter and consisting of a standardized layout of buttons or keys with symbols, such as letters or numbers, that can be entered into a computer by pressing on the keys.
- What is piracy?
- Unauthorized copying of software for personal use or distribution. Pirating soft-ware is breaking the law and could land the offender in jail.
- What is a disk drive?
- The device that reads from and writes to a floppy disk or hard disk.
- What is a diskette?
- The most common storage device used with micro-computer.
- What is a monitor?
- A display screen designed as an output device for a computer and usually composed of a Cathode Ray Tube.
- What is the computer?
- An electronic machine that can perform calculations and can process a large amount of information accurately and much more rapidly than the human brain.
- What is cropping?
- Cutting off part of an image, such as unneeded sections of a graphic area of space around borders.
- What is Public Domain?
- Software written as a good deed by some kind-hearted programmer, and then donated to the public. Anyone can use and copy public domain software free of charge.
- What is a clipboard?
- A memory resource that stores a copy of the last information that was "copied" or "cut"; the information on the clipboard can be "pasted" into another document.
- What is Plagiarism?
- Handing in someone else's work as their own.
- What is the Central Processing Unit? (CPU)
- The main component, or "brain," of a computer.
- What is clipart?
- A series of picture files that are stored on a disk that can be "clipped" and pasted into a document.
- What is a floppy disk?
- A flexible disk, made of thin plastic and magnetically coated. It is protected by a jacket with a metal slide moved to read or write information.
- What is Freeware?
- Software written by some generous-hearted programmer and then donated to the public, of anyone is free to copy it and gice it to their friends.
- What is a Printer?
- A mechanical output device that can print text, and sometimes graphics, on paper.
- What are output devices?
- Printers, monitors, storage devices like disk drives, and the computer itself.
- What us animation?
- Any method that can make an image appear to change over time.