Computing Glossary Flashcards

Accumulator

ACID

Acutuator

Address

Algorithm

ALU

Analogue

Applet

Application

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

Assembler

Assembly language

Assignment

Attribute

Auto documentation

Bar code

Binary

Bit

Bit rate

Boolean

Boolean algebra

Bus

Byte

Cache memory

Camera

CD

Character

Character set

Client

Clock chip

Code editor

Colour depth (or bit depth)

Command line

Comparison

Complier

Compression

Computer architecture

Concatenation

Constant

Control unit

CPU

Custom written

Data dictionary

Data integrity

Data redundancy

Debugger

Decision

Declaration

Decode

Dedicated

Defragmenter

Denary

Device driver

Disk organisation

Domain name

Dual-core/quad-core

DVD

Editor

Embedded system

Entity

Entity relationship diagram

Erroneous

Error diagnostics

Extreme

Failover

Fetch-execute cycle

Field

File

Firewall

Firmware

Flash memory

Flat file database

Flow chart (flow diagram)

Gigabyte

Graphical user interface

Hexadecimal

High-level language

HTML

Hub

Hyperlink

Icon

Indexed sequential file

Input device

Instructions

Integer

Integrated development environment (IDE)

Interface

Interpreter

Interrupt

Intranet

Invalid

IP address

Iteration or repetition

Kernel

Keyboard

Kilobyte

LAN

Linker

Logic circuit

Logic error

Logic gates

NOT

AND

OR

Low-level language

Machine code

Magnetic bard disk

Megabyte

Metadata

Microphone

Monitor

Motherboard

Mouse

Nesting

Nibble

Non-volatile

Object code

Off the shelf

One to many

Operand

Operating system

Operator (arithmetic and logic)

Operator (assembly language)

Optical disk

Overflow

PDF

Peer-to-peer

Pixel

Platform

Pretty printer

Printer

Process (flow chart)

Process (program)

Program

Program counter

Programming language

Protocol

Pseudocode

Random access memory (RAM)

Raster

Read only memory (ROM)

Real

Record

Register

Resolution

RFID

Run time environment

Sample rate

Schema

Secondary storage

Selection

Self-boosting

Sensor

Sequence

Sequential file

Serial file

Server

Shell

Software

Software engineering

Sold state

Source code

Speaker

Spyware

String

Switch

Syntax error

TCP/IP

Terabyte

Touch screen

Trace

Translator

Trojan

Truth table

Unicode

User interface

Utility

Valid

Validaion

Variable

Verification

Virtual memory

Virus detection

Volatile

WAN

Web server