ISP - BTT1O
TERM TABLE
Your term table is one of the pages in your Web Portfolio. You are responsible
for finding ALL the definitions for the following terms on your own.
HINT:
Look over past notes, quizzes and assignments. Please write the definitions
in your own words.
TERM
DEFINITION In Your Own Words!!!
1. Computer
2. Desktop
An electronic device for storing and processing of the
data.
The working surface of a desk is called desktop.
3. Icon
A thing regarded as a representative symbol of
something.
4. Shortcut
A fast or easy way of doing or achieving something.
5. Taskbar
A visual device on the desktop that shows
the user which application currently running.
6. Wallpaper
The background or picture of the desktop where is the
menus, icons, and other elements are displayed and moved
around.
7. Hardware
The machines and physical components of a
computer.
The program that used by the computer is
called software.
8. Software
9. CPU
means (central processing unit) which is the brain of
a computer.
10.
Modem
Is a Device which is used to transmit data.
11.
Peripheral
Not relating to the most important part of something
or a computer.
12.
Input Device
Is a hardware equipment of a computer, which used
to provide the data.
13.
Output Device
Hardware equipment used to converts the
electronically generated information into humanreadable form.
14.
CD-RW
A blank compact disk.
15.
DVD-R
a blank DVD on which data, including music and
movies
16.
Byte
A group of Bites.
17.
RAM
Drive against with a heavy impact.
18.
ROM
Means Read-only memory,Data stored in ROM can
only be modified slowly & with difficulty.
19.
Word Processor
A program for storing & formatting text from
keyboard and providing print out.
20.
Formatting
Use to arrange the data .
21.
Title bar
22.
Menu Bar
horizontal bar at the top of a window shows the name
of the currently active document.
located at the top of the screen which is containing
drop-down menus.
23.
Font
set of printable or displayable text character.
24.
Portrait
Orientation
The page is taller than it is wide.
25.
Landscape
Orientation
The wide is alot than its length.
26.
Margins
Use to arrange the border of the page
27.
Indent
in which all lines except the first are indented.
28.
Bullets
a small symbol such as an item in a list.
29.
Columns
a vertical division of a page.
30.
Justify
give a justification to the text.
31.
Alignment
To arrange the text to a straight line.
32.
Desktop
Publishing
the production of printed matter by means of a printer
linked to a desktop computer,
33.
Graphics
Use for the text to put into a commercial design.
34.
Design Elements
Use to shape or design the text.
35.
Text Box
A frame in which u can type ur text.
36.
Text Art
Use to format or design ur text or tittle .
37.
Spreadsheet
A document in which the data is arranged as
in the rows and colums.
38.
Worksheet
In paper for recording the work which is
done.
39.
Cell
A small room in which we type the text.
40.
Row
A number of cells in horizontal line.
41.
Column
A number of cells in a vertical line.
42.
Cell Address
Use to show the address of the cell or the
name .
43.
Range
arrange in a row.
44.
Label
A small shape or piece of a paper to give
information about the attached object.
45.
Value
the importance of something.
46.
Formula
mathematical relationship or rule expressed in
symbols.
47.
Electronic
Presentation
The electronic change of the business data .
48.
Slide
Use for moving of the text without pressing
the keys.
49.
Transition
A period of a change from one condition to
another one.
50.
Animation
Scheme
Use for moving the text in different shapes.
51.
Internet Web
Browser
Use for searching the address u entered.
52.
Hyperlink
Use to give links between two documents.
53.
World Wide Web
information system on the Internet that allows
documents to be connected to other documents by
hypertext links.
54.
Search Engine
used especially for finding particular sites on the
WWB.
55.
E-Mail
A message which send from one person or
computer to another person or computer.
56.
Netiquette
the correct way of communicating on the Internet.
57.
Emoticon
To represent something in a facial expression.
58.
Domain Name
The part of a network address that shows it
belongs to a particular domain.
59.
Web Surfing
spending time on the Internet.
60.
Ethics
the branch of knowledge that deals with moral
principles
61.
Utilitarian View
system of ethics in which the rightness or wrongness
of an action should be judged by its consequences.
62.
Deontology View
as an ethical theory that the morality of an action
should be based on whether that action itself is right
or wrong under a series of rules, rather than based on
the consequences of the action.
63.
Piracy
the unauthorized use or reproduction of another's
work.
64.
Copyright
the exclusive legal right of the text .
65.
Patent
a government authority or license conferring a right or
title for a set period.
66.
Spam
Spam is usually considered to be electronic junk
67.
Virus
a program or piece of code that is loaded onto your
computer without your knowledge and runs against
your wishes.
68.
Phishing
the activity of defrauding an online account holder of
financial information by posing as a legitimate
company.
69.
Pharming
the process of genetically modifying plants and
animals so that they produce substances that may be
used as pharmaceuticals.
70.
Ergonomics
he study of people's efficiency in their working
environment.
71.
RSI
The relative strength index (RSI) is a technical
indicator used in the analysis of financial markets.
72.
MSI
MSI is an installer package file format used by Windows
73.
CSR
means(Corporate Social Responsibility), the
voluntary activities undertaken by a company to
operate in an economic, social and environmentally
sustainable manner
74.
E-Waste
Means (electronic waste) an electronic device
which are destined for reuse, resale, salvage,
recycling.
