Vocabulary and Technology Database

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Vocabulary DB

Acronym Term Definition Comment Picture
Analog Analog Of or relating to a mechanism that represents data by measurement of a continuous physical variable, as voltage or pressure.  
SCSI Small Computer System Interface ) A fast interface between a host adapter and the CPU that can daisy chain as many as 7 or 15 devices on a single bus.  
PATA Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment The original "integrated drive electronics" (IDE) technology that transferred data from the hard disk over a parallel data channel to the motherboard. After Serial ATA (SATA) drives were introduced, the PATA term was coined to refer to IDE drives. Althoug  
SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment The standard hardware interface for connecting hard drives, solid state drives (SSDs) and CD/DVD drives to the computer. Introduced in 2001, nearly all computers use SATA drives.  
EIDE Enhanced IDE A standard for managing the interface between secondary storage devices and a computer system. A system can support up to four parallel ATA IDE devices such as hard drives, CD-ROM drives, and DVD drives.  
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group A graphical compression scheme that allows the user to control the amount of data that is averaged and sacrificed as file size is reduced. It is a common Internet file format. Most JPEG files have a .jpg extension.  
MP3 MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III An audio coding format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio streaming or storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music o  
GPF General Protection Fault A Windows error that occurs when a program attempts to access a memory address that is not available or is no longer assigned to it.  
shrotcut Desktop Shortcut In general, a shortcut is a path that is shorter than the usual or formal path to something or a method of operation that saves time over the regular operation. In Windows 95 and later operating system s, a shortcut is a computer desktop icon that enables  
Double-Sided Double-Sided A DIMM feature whereby memory chips are installed on both sides of a DIMM.  
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