Computer App Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Access | To get at or into. |
| Application | A computer program that does a user-oriented job. |
| Calculate | To figure |
| Character | A single letter, digit, or special symbol |
| Chip | An intergrated circuit |
| Command | A message from the user to the computer |
| Compatible | A term that describes hardware and software that can work together |
| Computer | A device used to accept, process, store, and get information |
| cursor | A symbol, such as a square or unerline bar, that shows where you are on the screen the cursor may flash or blink |
| Data | The symbols used to represent facts, events, or things; the raw material of information |
| Data Processing | A set of methods for collecting, handling, and outputting data to reach certain goals. |
| Disk | A flat, circular piece of metal or plastic coated with magnetic material and used for storing data. |
| disk drive | The device used to store data on a disk and to read what is sotred on a disk. |
| Expansion slot | A connector inside a computer designed to allow a user to add printed circuit boards-----daughter boards----to the motherboard |
| Floppy Disk | A reusable magnetic storage medium that uses a thin mylar circular disk as the storage surface |
| hard copy | Output that is printed on paper. |
| Hardware | The pysical parts that make up a computer system for example, keyboards, printers, monitors |
| Information | A set of data that has meaning and is useful |
| Input | the step in the data processing flow during which data is collected and entered into the computer |
| Intergrated Circuit | Circuitry whose parts are etched together on a small silicon chip less than one-fourth of an inch square |
| Keyboard | An input device that usually has keys like on a typewriter |
| kilobyte | storage units |
| Load | Top put a program into a computers primary memory from a disk or tape |
| Megaherts | A measure of speed, one million cycles per second |
| Memory | A place to store information usually coded in a binary format |
| Menu | A list of choices shown on the screen from which the user picks a command or data to enter into the computer |
| Microcomputer | A complete computer that has relatively few electronic parts and peripheral devices |
| Monitor | A video displat device or screen used for showing output |
| Motherboard | The main circuit board of a computer housing the micropprcessor and providing the means of connecting all the compenents that make up the computer |
| Mouse | An input device that is rolled on a smooth surface to much the cursor. |
| Output | The step in the data processing flow in which information comes from a comptuer as a result of processing |
| peripheral device | A device that is attached to the computer and aids in input and/or ouput.. |
| Primary Memory | The section of a computer that holds instructions data, and intermediate and final results during processing; also known as internal storage, main storage, primary storage, or random access memory |
| printer | A machine that prints characters or other images on paper.. |
| Processing | The seconds step of the data processing flow in which the computer acts on data. |
| program | A set of step-bystep instructions that tell a computer exactly how to do a certain task. |
| Programming language | A code in which a computer program is written |
| Random Access Memory | Form of primary memory in which instructions and data can be read, written or erased |
| read | Term used to describe the computers activity of getting an item in memory and interpreting it |
| Read Only Memory | Form of primary memory that holds items that can be read but not erased or changed by normal computer input |
| Scanner | A machine that changes images from paper or photos into digital form that the computer can use. |
| Secondary storage | All storage materials other than primary memory |
| Simulation | A cmpuler program that imitates a real world situationl it can show what happens when conditions in that situation are changed. |
| Soft Copy | A temporary display of output seen on a monitor |
| software | Programs of instruction, that tell a computer exactly what to do |
| Storage | The idea that programs can be stored in a computers primary memory and can be changed electronically rather than by resetting switches and rewiring the computer |
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