Terms




 * ** application program (application) ** || Software tool that allows a computer to be used for specific purposes. ||


 * ** back-up copy ** || A copy of a file created as insurance against the loss of the original. ||


 * ** back-up media ** || Disks, CD-Rs, and other technologies to hold backup files and to save computer storage space. ||


 * ** button ** || A hot spot on a screen that responds to mouse clicks. A button can be programmed to perform one of many tasks, such as opening a dialog box or launching an application. ||


 * ** CD-ROM drive ** || A common optical drive in computers that can read data from CD-ROM disks. ||


 * ** CD-RW drive ** || A disk drive that can read and write on rewritable optical disks. ||


 * ** central processing unit (CPU) ** || Part of the computer that processes information, performs arithmetic calculations, and makes basic decisions based on information values. ||


 * ** click ** || The action of pressing a button on a mouse. ||


 * ** Clipboard ** || A word processing program text editing tool for temporarily storing chunks of text and other data. ||


 * ** copy ** || A word processing program text editing tool that allows you to make a copy of a set of words or data and place the copy elsewhere in the same or a different document. ||


 * ** cut ** || A word processing program text editing tool that allows you to delete a set of words or data; often used with the copy function to move text around. ||


 * ** diskettes (disks) ** || Small, magnetically sensitive, flexible plastic wafers housed in a plastic case, used as a storage device. ||


 * ** document ** || A file, such as a term paper or chart created with applications. ||


 * ** double-click ** || To click a mouse button twice in rapid succession. ||


 * ** drag ** || To move the mouse while holding the mouse button down. Used for moving objects, selecting text, drawing, and other tasks. ||


 * ** drag-and-drop ** || A word processing program text editing tool that allows you to move a selected block of text from one location to another. ||


 * ** DVD drive ** || An optical disk drive that can read high-capacity DVD disks. ||


 * ** electronic mail (email) ** || Allows Internet users to send mail messages, data files, and software programs to other Internet users and to users of most commercial networks and online services. ||


 * ** file ** || An organized collection of related information stored in a computer- readable form. ||


 * ** file compression ** || The process of reducing the size of a file so that you can fit more files into the same amount of disk space. ||


 * ** file decompression ** || The process of restoring a compressed file back to its original state. ||


 * ** Find ** || A command used to locate a particular word, string of characters, or formatting in a document. ||


 * ** find-and-replace (search and replace) ** || A word processing program text editing tool that allows you to make repetitive changes throughout a document. ||


 * ** folder ** || A container for files and other folders. Also called a directory. ||


 * ** font ** || A size and style of typeface. ||


 * ** formatting ** || The function of software, such as word processing software, that enables users to change the appearance of a document by specifying the font, point size, and style of any character in the document, as well as the overall layout of text and graphical elements in the document. ||


 * ** hard disk ** || A rigid, magnetically sensitive disk that spins rapidly and continuously inside the computer chassis or in a separate box attached to the computer housing. Used as a storage device. ||


 * ** hardware ** || Physical parts of the computer system. ||


 * ** hyperlink ** || A word, phrase, or picture that acts as a button, enabling the user to explore the Web or a multimedia document with mouse clicks. ||


 * ** Internet ** || A global interconnected network of thousands of networks linking academic, research, government, and commercial institutions, and other organizations and individuals. Also known as the Net. ||


 * ** keyboard ** || Input device, similar to a typewriter keyboard, for entering data and commands into the computer. ||


 * ** memory ** || Stores programs and the data they need to be instantly accessible to the CPU. ||


 * ** menu ** || An onscreen list of command choices. ||


 * ** monitor ** || An output device that displays text and graphics onscreen. ||


 * ** monospaced fonts ** || Fonts like those in the Courier family that mimic typewriters; characters, no matter how skinny or fat, always take up the same amount of space. ||


 * ** mouse ** || A handheld input device that, when moved around on a desktop or table, moves a pointer around the computer screen. ||


 * ** open ** || To load a file into an application program's workspace so it can be viewed and edited by the user. ||


 * ** operating system (OS) ** || A system of programs that performs a variety of technical operations, providing an additional layer of insulation between the user and the bits-and-bytes world of computer hardware. ||


 * ** paste ** || A word processing program text editing tool that allows you to cut or copy words from one part of a document and place the copy elsewhere in the same or a different document. ||


 * ** peripheral ** || An external device, such as a keyboard or monitor, connected via cables to the system central processing unit. ||


 * ** personal computer ** || A small, powerful, relatively low-cost microcomputer. ||


 * ** point size ** || A measure of character size, with one point equal to 1/72 inch. ||


 * ** printer ** || Output device that produces a paper copy of any information that can be displayed on the screen. ||


 * ** proportionally spaced fonts ** || Fonts that enable more room for wide than for narrow characters. ||


 * ** sans-serif fonts ** || Typeface fonts in which the characters have plain and clean lines rather than embellishments at the ends of the main strokes. ||


 * ** serif fonts ** || Typeface fonts in which the characters are embellished with fine lines (serifs) at the ends of the main strokes. ||


 * ** Search ** || Looking for a specific record. ||


 * ** search engine ** || A program for locating information on the Web. ||


 * ** software ** || Instructions that tell the hardware what to do to transform input into output. ||


 * ** spam ** || Internet junk mail. ||


 * ** speakers ** || The personal computer peripherals that emit music, voices, and other sounds. ||


 * ** typeface ** || All type, including roman, bold, and italics, of a single design, such as Palatino or Helvetica. ||


 * ** URL (uniform resource locator) ** || The address of a Web site. ||


 * ** user name ** || A one-word name that you type to identify yourself when connecting-logging in-to a secure computer system, network, or email account. Sometimes called login name or alias. ||


 * ** viruses ** || Software that spreads from program to program, or from disk to disk, and uses each infected program or disk to make copies of itself. A form of software sabotage. ||


 * ** Web browsers ** || Application programs that enable you to explore the Web by clicking hyperlinks in Web pages stored on Web sites. ||


 * ** Web page ** || A single document on the World Wide Web (WWW), made up of text and images and interlinked with other documents. ||


 * ** Web site ** || A collection of related Web pages stored on the same server. ||


 * ** word wrap ** || A word processing program text editing feature that automatically moves any words that won't fit on the current line to the next line, along with the cursor. ||


 * ** World Wide Web (WWW) ** || Part of the Internet, a collection of multimedia documents created by organizations and users worldwide. Documents are linked in a hypertext Web that allows users to explore them with simple mouse clicks. ||

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 * ** WYSIWYG ** || Short for "what you see is what you get," pronounced "wizzy-wig."With a word processor, the arrangement of the words on the screen represents a close approximation to the arrangement of words on the printed page. ||
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