CGS2060 ch.2 Part 6 vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 tablet PC | a notebook computer designed specifically to work with handwriting recognition technology |
| terabyte | 1,099,511,627,776 bytes or 2^40 bytes (approx. 1 trillion bytes) |
| TB | abrieviation for approx. 1 trillion bytes |
| thermal printer | works either by melting wax-based ink onto ordinary paper (thermal wax transfer printing) or by burning dots onto specially coated paper (direct thermal printing) |
| touch screen | a type of monitor (or display in a notebook or PDA) that accepts input from a user touching the screen |
| touch pad | a small, touch sensitive, screen at the base of a notebook keyboard; to use simply move fingers accross it to direct the cursor |
| trackball mouse | mouse with a rollerball on top, not the bottom, does not require much wrist motion, considered healthier for wrists than a traditional mouse |
| trackpoint device | a small, joystick-like nub that enables you to move the cursor with the tip of your finger |
| universal serial bus port | port that can connect a wide variety of peripheral devices to the computer, including keyboards, printers, mice, smartphones, PDAs, flash drives, and digital cameras |
| video card | an expansion card that is installed inside a system unit to translate binary data (the 1s and 0s the computer uses) into the images viewed on the monitor |
| video graphics array | port to which a CRT monitor connects |
| VGA | abrieviation for a port to which a CRT monitor connects |
| viewing angle | measured in degrees, this tells you how far you can move to the side of (or above or below) the monitor before the image quality degrades to unacceptable levels |
| volatile storage | temporary storge, ex: random access memory (RAM), when the power is off the data in it is cleared out |
| warm boot | the process of restarting the system while it's powered on |
| webcam | a small camera that sits on top of a computer monitor (connected to the computer by a cable) or is built into a notebook computer and is usually used to transfer live video |
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