Marking Period 3 Vocabulary Words set #1

1) Biometric Security Measures:Biometrics is used as a form of identity access management and access control. It is also used to identify individuals in groups that are under surveillance.


2) Cable Modem: A cable modem is a device that enables you to hook up your PC to a local cable TV line and receive data at about 1.5 Mbps. This data rate far exceeds that of the prevalent 28.8 and 56 Kbps telephone modems and the up to 128 Kbps of Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) and is about the data rate available to subscribers of Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) telephone service.


3) Client:A client is the requesting program or user in a client/server relationship. For example, the user of a Web browser is effectively making client requests for pages from servers all over the Web.


4) Client/ Server Network:A client is the requesting program or user in a client/server relationship. For example, the user of a Web browser is effectively making client requests for pages from servers all over the Web.
5) Communication Channels: communication channels flow within the chain of command or task responsibility defined by the organisation.


6) Digital Subscriber Line (DSL):Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology is a modem technology that uses existing twisted-pair telephone lines to transport high-bandwidth data, such as multimedia and video, to service subscribers.
7) Extranet:An extension of an institution's intranet, especially over the WorldWide Web, enabling communication between the institution and people it deals with, often by providing limited access to its intranet. 8) Firewall:Any of a number of security schemes that prevent unauthorized users from gaining access to a computer network or that monitor transfers of information to and from the network.
9) Hacker:A person who writes programs in assembly language or in system-level languages, such as C. The term often refers to any programmer, but its true meaning is someone with a strong technical background who is "hacking away" at the bits and bytes.
10) Hub:An Ethernet hub, active hub, network hub, repeater hub or hub is a device for connecting multiple twisted pair or fiber optic Ethernet devices together and making them act as a single network segment. Hubs work at the physical layer (layer 1) of the OSI model. 
11) Internet:The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide.
12) Intranet:A privately maintained computer network that can be accessed only by authorized persons, especially members or employees of the organization that owns it.
13) Local Area Conector (LAN):Local Area Networks (LANs) are the small networks to which many business and home-computer user initially connect.
14) Modem:A modem (modulator-demodulator) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information.
15) Node: In communication networks, a node is a connection point, either a redistribution point or acommunication endpoint (some terminal equipment). The definition of a node depends on the network andprotocol layer referred to. 
16) Peer-Peer Network:Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or work loads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application. They are said to form a peer-to-peer network of nodes.
17) Proxy Server:In computer networks, a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. 
18) Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN):The public switched telephone network (PSTN) also referred to as the plain old telephone service (POTS) is the network of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks.
19) Router:A router is an electronic device that intercepts signals on a computer network. The router determines where the signals have to go.
20) Server:In computer networking, a server is a program that operates as a socket listener. The term server is also often generalized to describe a host that is deployed to execute one or more such programs
21) Server Operating System:Server-oriented operating systems tend to have certain features in common that make them more suitable for the server environment
22) T-1 Line:In telecommunications, T-carrier, sometimes abbreviated as T-CXR, is the generic designator for any of several digitally multiplexed telecommunications carrier systemsoriginally developed by Bell Labs and used in North America, Japan, and South Korea.
23) Wide area Network (WAN):A wide area network (WAN) is a computer network that covers a broad area (i.e., any network whose communications links cross metropolitan, regional, or national boundaries )
24) WiMax:WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is atelecommunications protocol that provides fixed and fully mobile Internet access. The current WiMAX revision provides up to 40 Mbit/s
25) Wireless Internet Service Provider(WISP):Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) are Internet service providers with networks built around wireless networking. 
26) Wireless LAN (WLAN):A wireless local area network (WLAN) links two or more devices using some wireless distribution method (typically spread-spectrum or OFDM radio), and usually providing a connection through an access point to the wider internet. 

Set#2

Address Book: An address book or a name and address book (NAB) is a book or a database used for storing entries called contacts.

Archiving: Archives; List of archives; Manuscript processing; Preservation (library andarchival science)

Attachment: Attachment theory is a psychological, evolutionary, and ethological theory concerning relationships between humans.

Distribution list: is a term sometimes used for a function of email clients where lists of email addresses are used to email everyone on the list at once.

Electronic Mail: Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other computer networks

e-mail address: An email address identifies an email mailbox to which email messages may be delivered. An example format of an email address is lewis@example.net

Instant Messaging: Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time direct text-based communication between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared software

Mailing List: A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients.

Packets: a packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet mode computer network.

Signature: is a handwritten (and sometimes stylized) depiction of someone's name, nickname or even a simple "X" that a person writes on.
                                                                        
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ActiveX: a framework for defining reusable software components in a programming language independent way.

Client: is an application or system that accesses a remote service on another computer system, known as a server, by way of a network The term was first applied to devices

Cookie: a web cookie, browser cookie, and HTTP cookie, is a piece of text stored by a user 's web browser

Digital Certificate: a public key certificate (also known as a digital certificate or identitycertificate) is an electronic document which uses a digital signature to bind a public key

Domain: an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet.

File Transfer Protocol: is a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network, such as the Internet.

Geographic Imaging: division of the National Geographic Society (NGS) headquartered in Washington, D.C., USA, is a stock photography agency

Hit: a strike (attack), the act of hitting someone or something to cause physical harm.

Home Page: has various related meanings to do with web sites: It most often refers to the initial or main web page of a web site, sometimes called the front page

Hypertext markup Language: is the predominant markup language for web pages.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol: a networking protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication

Internet Protocol Address: a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet

Internet Service Provider: a company that offers its customers access to the Internet

Mosaic: the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials

Podcast: a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication.

Portal: a general term describing an opening in the walls of a building, gate or fortification, and especially a grand entrance to an important structure

Really Simple Syndication: a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio

Social Networking Site: an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people

Uniform Resource Locator: a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it.

Web 2.0: commonly associated with web applications that facilitate interactive systemic biases, interoperability, user-centered design and developing the World Wide Web.

Web Cache: the caching of web documents (e.g., HTML pages, images) to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag. A web cache stores copies of documents passing

Website: a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed

Webapp: In earlier types of cloud computing, each application had its own client program which served as its user interface and had to be separately installed on each user

Wiki: is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text

Blog: (a blend of the term web log is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary

Boolean Logic: a complete system for logical operations, used in many systems. It was named after George Boole, who first defined an algebraic system of logicCopyright: a set of exclusive rights granted by the law of a jurisdiction to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy

Directories: A typical file system may contain thousands (or even hundreds of thousands) of folders.

Feed: a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

Secure Sockets Layer: Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that "provide communications security over the Internet TLS

  

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Indexes: a system used to make finding information easier.

Keywords: the words that are used to reveal the internal structure of an author's reasoning.

Libel: defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures

Link List: contains a null reference

Math Symbols: a listing of common symbols found within all branches of mathematics

News Feed: a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content.

Peer-to-Peer: computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or work loads between peers.

Phrase Searching: is used to search for words as phrases.

Plagiarism: is defined in dictionaries as "the wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author's language

Podcatcher: a computer program used to download various media via an RSS or XML feed.


Public Domain: comprises copyright-free works: anyone can use them in any way and for any purpose. Proper attribution to the author

Related Search: software program that searches a database and gathers and reports information that contains or is related to specified terms.

Search Engine: is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers.

Shared bookmark: a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search forbookmarks of resources online.

Trademark: a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity

Wiki: a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text

Wildcard character: a special character that represents one or more other characters

Business-to-Business: describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer.

Business-to-consumer: describes activities of businesses serving end consumers with products and/or services.

Business-to-government: a derivative of B2B marketing and often referred to as a market definition of "public sector marketing" which encompasses marketing products
Critical Thinking: in its broadest sense has been described as "purposeful reflective judgment concerning what to believe or what to do.

Digital Cash: Electronic money systems
In technical terms, electronic money is an online representation, or a system of debits and credits, used to exchange value within another system, or within itself as a stand alone system.

Electronic Commerce: consists of the buying and selling of products or services overelectronic systems such as the Internet

Keyless Entry System: A remote keyless system can include both a remote keyless entry system (RKE) and a remote keyless ignition system (RKI).

Online Learning: E-learning comprises all forms of electronically supported learning and teaching

Telecommuting: a work arrangement in which employees enjoy flexibility in working location and hours.

Browser Hijacking: It first redirects homepages to its website and begins to collect information on the computer.

Brute force Attacks: a strategy that can in theory be used against any encrypted data by an attacker who is unable to take advantage

Hacking: The controversy is usually based on the assumption that the term originally meant someone messing about with something in a positive sense, that is, using playful cleverness to achieve a goal.

Hardware firewall: Routers assign a unique internal address to each connected unit.


Keylogger: are local software keyloggers programmed with an added feature to transmit recorded data from the target computer to a monitor at a remote location .


Private Key: signatures made with the no longer trusted to be actually private key after time T

Public Key: a cryptographic approach which involves the use of asymmetric key algorithms instead of or in addition to symmetric key algorithms.

Repetitive strain injury: believed by many to be caused due to lifestyle without ergonomic care

Secure Sockets Layer: protocol allows client/server applications to communicate across a network in a way designed to prevent eavesdropping and tampering

Sniffer: capture traffic on all or just parts of the network from a single machine within the network

Spyware: type of malware that can be installed on computers and collects little bits of information at a time about users without their knowledge.

Strong Password: a measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting guessing and brute-force attacks.

Transport Layer Security: are cryptographic protocols that provide communications securityover the Internet

IC3 Certification Exam: is to validate fundamental computer skills and knowledge through performance-based testing.

Marking Period 2 Vocab Words

1.3D Pie Chart:a graphic representation of quantitative information by means of a circle divided into sectors, in which the relative sizes of the areas (or central angles) of the sectors correspond to the relative sizes or proportions of the quantities.

2. A cell reference:A cell reference used in a formula in a spreadsheet program that does not change when the formula is copied or moved.

3.Active cell:A cell in a spreadsheet that is available for data manipulation. In the below picture of Microsoft Excel, you can see that the active cell is A2. When a cell is an active cell, it will differ in appearance from other cells such as having a bold border around it.

4.ActiveX controls:A Microsoft ActiveX control is essentially a simple OLE object that supports the IUnknown interface. This section offers solutions for making a control work well in the Internet environment, with the ultimate goal of delivering optimal quality of service to users. For example, because browser speed is one of the primary factors in users' perception of quality, this section aims to provide solutions that allow an HTML document or page to become visible as soon as possible and interactive very shortly thereafter, while allowing controls to retrieve large data blocks in the background.

5.Alignment:The alignment issues in an ODBC application are generally no different than they are in any other application. That is, most ODBC applications have few or no problems with alignment. The penalties for not aligning addresses vary with the hardware and operating system and might be as minor as a slight performance penalty or as major as a fatal run-time error. Therefore, ODBC applications, and portable ODBC applications in particular, should be careful to align data properly.

6.American Psychological Association (APA):Documentation Style Name.Represents the attribte in schema: StyleName

7.Anchor:Gets or sets the edges of the container to which a control is bound and determines how a control is resized with its parent.

Animations: Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement.

Application software: Application software, also known as an application, is computer software designed to help the user to perform singular or multiple related specific tasks.

Argument: In logic, an argument is a set of one or more meaningful declarative sentences.
Attachment: The act of attaching or the condition of being attached.

AutoComplete: Autocomplete is a feature provided by many web browsers, e-mail programs, search engine interfaces, source code editors, database query tools, word processors, and command line interpreters.

AutoFit: an automatic determination of the best width for a column or best height for a row, based on its content.

AutoForm: Autoform Document Management enables the capture, storage and fast retrieval of all Incoming & Outgoing documents.

AutoRecover: Describes the AutoRecover functions in Excel. The AutoRecover feature saves copies of all open Excel workbooks at a fixed interval that you define.

Backwardly compatible: In technology, for example in telecommunications and computing, a device or technology is said to be backwards or downwards compatible if it allows input generated by older devices.

Bar chart: a chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities

Bibliography: a list of writings with time and place of publication

Borders: Borders define geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, sovereign states, federated states and other subnational entities

Bullet: In typography, a bullet is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items
Bullet point: any of a number of items printed in a list, each after a centred dot, usually the most important points in a longer piece of text

Bulleted list: Starts a bulleted list using discs as bullets: This is one line; This is another line; And this is the final line.

Cash flow analysis: a type of financial analysis that compares the timing and amount of cash inflows with the timing and amount of cash outflows. A firm's cash flow position can greatly affect its ability to remain in business.

Cell: a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

Cell address: A cell address in a spreadsheet, such as Excel, identifies the location of the cell in the spreadsheet.

Center: an area that is approximately central within some larger region

Circular reference: A circular reference is a series of references where the last object references the first, resulting in a closed loop.

Citation: an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement

Clip art: ready-made pieces of computerized graphic art that can be used to decorate a document

Clipboard: a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding papers

Copy: An imitation or reproduction of an original; a duplicate Copyright: The legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work. Criteria: A standard, rule, or test on which a judgment or decision can be based. Cumulative total: Actual, non-

annualized performance over a given period of time.

Currency: Money in any form when in actual use as a medium of exchange, especially circulating paper money.

Currency format: numeric form that can take a currency format

Cut: To penetrate with a sharp edge; strike a narrow opening in.

Data source: A factory for connections to the physical data source that this DataSource object represents.

Data type: a classification identifying one of various types of data

Database: A database consists of an organized collection of data for one or more uses, typically in digital form.

Datasheet view: The Datasheet View shows the records in a table.

Default printer: You can change the default printer to any other printer that you have connected to your computer.

design view: The view of table, query, form, and macro objects that enables you to create or change the object.

Dialog boxes: In graphical user interfaces, a dialog (or dialogue) box is a special window, used in user interfaces to display information to the user, or to get a response if needed

Document: writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

Drag: pull, as against a resistance

Drag-and-drop: In computer graphical user interfaces, drag-and-drop is the action of (or support for the action of) clicking on a virtual object and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object.

Embedded chart: When a chart is drawn on the same worksheet as the data.

Encrypt document: to store files in an encrypted format on your hard disk.

endnote: Software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies.

Extrapolation: To infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information.

Field: A broad, level, open expanse of land.

Field area:

Field list: two arrays are created that define the custom enumerated types for the drop-down list you want to create.

Field placeholders: To hide the field codes

File extension: A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention of its contents.

Fill handle: it's the small black square in the bottom right of the active cell.

Filter: remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"

Filter by form: How to filter a form in a Microsoft Access database, based on a field that is not in the table the field is bound to.

Find: discover or determine the existence, presence

First line indent: Indent on the first line of the paragraph.

Font: a specific size and style of type within a type family

Footer: A line of information printed at the bottom of a page as identification of the document

footnote: a printed note placed below the text on a printed page

foreign key field: A foreign key field is a reference to data in another table.

formatting marks: You can also show or hide formatting marks by clicking Options on the Tools menu and then clicking the View tab.

forms: a particular mode in which something is manifested

Formula bar: Displays the contents of the current or active cell, located above the worksheet column headings.

Function: a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set

Gallery: a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited

Graphical user interface: an interface between a user and a computer system that involves the use of a mouse-controlled screen cursor to select options from menus, make choices with buttons, start programs by clicking icons,

Grayscale: a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample, that is, it carries only intensity.

Gridlines: the faint lines that appear around cells in Excel 2007. They are used to distinguish cells on the worksheet.

Group: a number of people or things considered together or regarded as belonging together

Handouts: a document that is distributed to a group

Hanging indent: a paragraph that has all lines but the first indented.

Header: refers to supplemental data placed at the beginning of a block of data being stored or transmitted.

Heading: something forming or used to form the head, top, edge, or front

Horizontal axis: The lines are commonly referred to as the x and y-axes where the x-axis is taken to behorizontal

HTML format: Web page coded in HTML that can be displayed in a Web browser; formats text, tables, images, and other content that is displayed on the page; most pages within static websites have an ".html"

Hyperlink: is a reference to a document that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically.

Hypertext markup language (HTML): is the predominant markup language for web pages.

Indent: to start a line or row of text some distance in from the margin

Information bar: A status bar, similar to a status line, is an information area typically found at the bottom of windows in a graphical user interface.

Input mask: refers to a string expression, defined by a developer, that governs what a user is allowed to enter in as input in a text box.

Insertion point: Insertion point

Interest Rate: A rate which is charged or paid for the use of money.

Internal Rate of Return (IRR): a rate of return used in capital budgeting to measure and compare the profitability of investments.

Justified: To demonstrate or prove to be just, right, or valid

Keyboard shortcut: is a finite set of one or more keys that invoke a software or operating system operation when triggered by the user.

Label controls: A label is a user interface control which displays text on a form.

Landscape: a section or expanse of rural scenery usually extensive, that can be seen from a single view point.

Layout: any specific mechanical, visual, or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key–meaning associations.

Leader character: Set Tab stops with leader characters (Word, Mac, Win) Mac. Set tab stops with leadercharacters Select the paragraph in which you want to insert leader characters before a tab stop.

Leader line: A thin line with an arrow head that is often positioned at an angle and is used to tie a dimension to a feature, especially when there are space limitations.

Left-aligned: A tab is simply a software command that creates space in your text without hitting the space bar a jillion times in a row.

Legend: is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history

Line chart: A line chart or line graph is a type of graph, which displays information as a series of data points connected by straight line segments.

Line spacing: In typography, leading refers to the distance between the baselines of successive lines of type.

Live preview: is the feature that allows a digital camera 's electronic display to be used as a viewfinder, that is, as a means of previewing exposure

Logical operators: two sentences may be joined by a grammatical conjunction to form a grammatically compound sentence.

Lookup Wizard: The Lookup Wizard is part of a series of add-in wizards that Microsoft has made

Macros: is the premier Windows automation macro utility. Record, edit and play back mouse and keyboardmacros.

Mail merge: Mail merge is a software function describing the production of multiple (and potentially large numbers of) documents from a single template form and a structured data source

Main document: The window contains a menubar at the top, a tabbed shelf, the panel space, the transport controls.

Manual column break: column break or a page break at the current cursor position.

Manual line break: A manual line break ends the current line and continues the text on the next line.

Manual page break: You can insert a page break anywhere in your document, or you can specify where Microsoft Word positions automatic page breaks.

Margin: is collateral that the holder of a financial instrument has to deposit to cover some or all of the credit risk.

Markers: Permanent markers are porous pens that can write on surfaces such as plastic, wood, metal, and stone.

Maximize/Restore Down button: To quickly maximize/restore down a window, double click on the title bar.

Memo: is a document or other communication that helps the memory by recording events or observations on a topic, such as may be used in a business office.

MHTML format: Web browser support. Many browsers support the MHTML format, either directly or through third-party extensions, but the process for saving a web page along with its resources

Microsoft office: Microsoft Office is an office suite of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems

Microsoft office access: The Microsoft Office Access 2007 Runtime enables you to distribute Access 2007 applications to users who do not have the full version of Access 2007 installed on their computers.

Microsoft visual basic for applications: is an implementation of Microsoft's event-driven programming languageVisual Basic 6, and associated integrated development environment

Minimize button: Gets or sets a value indicating whether the Minimize button is displayed in the caption bar of the form.

Mixed cell reference: Cells in Excel are linked by references - whether they are relative, absolute or mixed - named or unnamed

Modern Language Association: Founded in 1883 by teachers and scholars, the Modern Language Association (MLA) promotes the study and teaching of language and literature.

Movie clips: Video clips are short clips of video, usually part of a longer piece.

Name box: The Name Box displays the cell reference of the active cell.

Non-printing characters: is a code point (a number) in a character set, that does not in itself represent a written symbol

Normal view: in Microsoft PowerPoint and OpenOffice Impress is the main working window in the presentation. The slide is shown full size on the screen.

Notes pane: Thousands of articles, reviews, posts and templates for and on Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, Apple Keynote, and other presentation software.

Null: having no legal validity

Numbered list: aligns the contents of the items, comparable with using table syntax

Object Linking and Embedding: is a technology developed by Microsoft that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects.

Objects: Protocol objects are components of a protocol stack that encapsulate network communication within an object-oriented interface.

Office button: It is a round button with the Microsoft Office 2007 logo on the face.

OLE object: is Microsoft's framework for a compound document technology.

One-to-many relationship: is an attribute of data transmission from a single sender to many receivers.

One-to-one relationship: This pattern is most frequently encountered when a complex entity is partitioned into a primary extent and one or more subordinate or secondary extents that together store all the information about the entity.

Parenthetical citation: is a citation style in which partial citations are enclosed within parentheses

Paste: Paste may refer to: Wheatpaste, also known as potato paste, flour paste, rice paste, Marxist glue, or simply paste, made from vegetable starch and water

Paste options: When you paste data into cells in Excel, the Paste Options button appears below the pasted selection.

Pie chart: is a circular chart divided into sectors, illustrating proportion.

Pixel: is a single point in a raster image.

Placeholders: Placeholder name, words that can refer to objects or people, whose names are unknown or irrelevant; Filler text, shares some characteristics.

Plain text format: is the contents of an ordinary sequential file readable as ... E-text; MIME Content-type; Fileformat; Binary file.

Point: a spatial point is a primitive notion upon which other concepts may be defined

Portable Document format: is an open standard for document exchange.

Portrait: A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant.

Present value: Present value is the value on a given date of a future payment or series of future payments, discounted to reflect the time value of money and other factors such as investment

Primary key field: A surrogate key can be used as the primary key.

Print driver: a printer driver or a print processor is a piece of software that converts the data to be printed to the form specific to a printer.

Print queue: Find out which documents are currently printing or are ready to print.

Programs: is a sequence of instructions written to perform a specified task for a computer A
computer requires programs
Properties: is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of people.

Properties: is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of people.

Queries: a request for information

Quick access toolbar: The Quick Access Toolbar is a customizable toolbar that contains a set of commands that are independent of the tab that is currently displayed. Quick style gallery: To find and change more stylesin the set, click the up arrow or down arrow next to the Quick Styles gallery. R-Squared value: Investopedia explains R-Squared R-squared values range from 0 to 100. An R-squared of 100 means that all movements of a security are completely explained by movements in the index. Range: Range may refer to: In mathematics, science, and technology In mathematics. Interval (mathematics), also called a range; the range between minimum and maximum. Record: An item or collection of data: Data storage device that contains data (more specifically audio data) Gramophone record
Records: items or collections of data: Data storage device that contains data (more specifically audio data) Gramophone record
Redo: to do something again, e.g. in order to correct mistakes in an earlier effort Referential integrity: All articles with unsourced statements, Articles with unsourced statements from June 2009

Relational database: A relational database matches data by using common characteristics found within the data set.

Relationship: Binary relation; Direct relationship 

Sans serif fonts: In print, sans-serif fonts are more typically used for headlines than for body text.

ScreenTip: Microsoft invented another term, “ScreenTip”, and uses it in its end-user documentation.

Scroll bars: Examples of horizontal and vertical scroll bars around a text box.

Section: distinct part: a distinct part that can be separated or considered separately from the whole of something

Select query: Given a table T, the query SELECT * FROM T will result in all the elements of all the rows of the table being shown.

Selection: In the context of evolution, certain traits or alleles of genes segregating within a population may be subject to selection.

Serif fonts: In the Chinese and Japanese writing systems, there are common type styles based on the regular script for Chinese characters akin to serif and sans serif fonts in the West.

Shortcut menu: A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and popup or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right mouse click

Sigma: Sigma (upper case Σ, lower case σ, lower case in word-final position ς; Greek σίγμα) is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet

Simple payback period: There is no formula to calculate the payback period, except the simple and unrealistic case of the initial cash outlay and further constant cash inflows or constantly growing cash

Single-spaced: If you are typing addresses, the easiest way to make them single-spaced is to end each line with a line break instead of a paragraph break.

Sizing handle: In Microsoft Word 2000, pressing the SHIFT key while dragging a sizing handle does not crop an object.

Slide master view: To view the Slide Master, pull down the View menu, point to Master, and then click SlideMaster: The Slide Master will appear

Slide masters: The slide master is an element of the design template that stores information about the template, including font styles, placeholder sizes and positions, background design

Slide pane: A large version of the selected slide appears in the Slide Pane. You will do most of your editing and format changes directly on the slide.

Slide show view: View your PowerPoint slide show in a quarter screen while you work on it at the same time.

Slides/outline pane: The Slides/Outline pane is located on the left of the PowerPoint 2007 screen.

Slope: In mathematics, the slope or gradient of a line describes its steepness, incline, or grade. A higher slopevalue indicates a steeper incline.

small caps: In typography, small capitals (usually abbreviated small caps) are uppercase (capital) characters set at the same height and weight as surrounding lowercase (small) letters.

SmartArt: What to consider when choosing a layout About the Text pane Style, color, and effects for SmartArtgraphics Animation for SmartArt

Spacing after: typesetting requires only one space after periods, question marks, exclamation points, and colons", and identified single sentence

Speaker notes: Speaker notes are notes added to the presentation slides for a reference for the presenter of the presentation.

Spread sheet: A spreadsheet is a computer application that simulates a paper, accounting worksheet. It displays multiple cells that together make up a grid consisting of rows and columns

Status bar: A status bar, similar to a status line, is an information area typically found at the bottom of windows in a graphical user interface A status bar is sometimes divided

Style: Design, the process of creating something; Fashion, a prevailing mode of expression, e.g., clothing; Format, various terms that refer to the style of different things

Subscript: A subscript or superscript is a number, figure, symbol, or indicator that appears smaller than the normal line of type and is set slightly below or above it

Sum: a mathematical problem involving adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing numbers

Superscript: A subscript or superscript is a number, figure, symbol, or indicator that appears smaller than the normal line of type and is set slightly below or above it

Synonyms: Synonyms are different words with almost identical or similar meanings.

Syntax: the ordering of and relationship between the words and other structural elements

Tab stop: A tab stop on a typewriter is a location where the carriage movement is halted by mechanical gears.

Table: In relational databases and flat file databases, a table is a set of data elements

Tabs: Tab or tabs may refer to: The tab key on a computer keyboard; A British Army term for a loaded march.

Taskbar: In computing, a taskbar is a bar displayed on a full edge of a GUI desktop that is used to launch and monitor running applications.

Templates: Free templates for Microsoft Office products ... Get a list of Office 2003 menu commands and their new locations in the Office 2010.

Text: Text messaging or texting refers to the exchange of brief written messages between fixed-line phone or mobile phone and fixed or portable devices over a network.

Text box controls: Gets or sets a value indicating whether pressing ENTER in a multiline TextBox controlcreates a new line of textTheme: A theme is the broad idea, moral, or message, of an essay, paragraph, movie, or a book. The message may be about life, society, or human nature.

Thesaurus: A thesaurus is a book that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which

Title bar: In computing, the title bar (or titlebar) consists of that part of a window where the title of the window appears.

Toggle: A pin, rod, or crosspiece fitted or inserted into a loop in a rope, chain, or strap to prevent slipping, to tighten, or to hold an attached object.

Track changes: You can easily make and view tracked changes and comments while you work in a document.

Transitions: Transitions are the animation settings for a Layer to indicate how it appears and disappears when the page is displayed.

Trendline: Trend line can refer to: Linear regression in mathematics.

undo: Undo is a command in many computer programs. It erases the last change done to the document reverting it to an older state.

Vertical (Value) axis: By default, Microsoft Office Excel determines the minimum and maximum scale values of the vertical (value) axis when you create a chart.

Views: Views can represent a subset of the data contained in a table; Views can join and simplify multiple tables into a single virtual table; Views can act as aggregated tables

Wildcard: The term wild card was originally used in card games, but the term has evolved to describe an unpredictable factor in any number of domains.

Windows-based applications: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 offers several ways to develop Windows-based applications that run locally on users' computers. With Visual Studio 2005

word-wrap: In text display, line wrap is the feature of continuing on a new line when a line is full, such that each line fits in the viewable window

Wordart: WordArt is a text-styling feature that is available in the Microsoft Office suite of products.

Work area: You define work areas in Customizing for the directly called detailed scheduling planning

Workbook: Workbooks in the American education system, are cheap, paperback textbooks, issued to students.

Works Cited: Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA.

Worksheet: A worksheet is a sheet of paper, or on a computer, on which problems are worked out or solved and answers recorded. Education

X-Y Scatter Chart: Applies to Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2002 XY (Scatter) chartsand Line charts look very similar

Zoom: to move very fast, especially while emitting a loud low-pitched buzzing noise