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data: information in a form that can be read, used, and manipulated by a computer.

information: anything that can be communitcated.

processing: an activitvy that manipulates and organizes inoformation in ways that add value hard disk,

disk drive: a rigid magnettically sensitive disk that spins rapidly and continuosly inside the computer chassis or in a sperate box attached to the computer houseing. used as A storage. storage: Long term repository for Data. Disks and Tapes are examples. - primary:a computers main memoery

--secondary:the catorgory of computer storage found in periphials such as topes or disk drives.

optical disk drive, USB: these are all plugged nito the computers ports and and has data trasmitted from computer to one of these devices. compatibility, interface standards,

random access: storage method that allows information retrieval without regard to the order in which it was recorded.

RFID:a devuse that when energizzed by a nearby RFID reader, broadcasts information to the reader for input into a computer.

OCR: softwerar that locate sand identifies printed vcharcters embedded in images.

OMR:

bar code:

MFP:

sound card:a circit bored that allows the PC to accept microhpnes input plays music and sound thru speackers headphones and processs it .

CRT; LCD: difrrent trypes of moniotors. CTR: Cathode-ray tube LCD: liquid crystal

resolution dpi: Density of pixals measured by the number of dots per inch.

pixel:A pitcure elemet on a computer screeen or print out (dot).

baud :

sensors :a devise that eenables digital machines to monitor a phsical quality of the analog world such as temp. humididty, or pressure to provode data in robocis , and other apps.

voice input, speech recognition: the idendtifation of spoken words and sentences by a computer making iit poosible for voice input to be reconized and converted into text files.

ergonomics, repetative-stress injuries : ergonoamics is the scince of fdesigning work envornmets that enable pepople and things to interact efficently and safly. and Repetative streess injurys is a result from doing someithng too much, like typnig on the key bored constantly can lead to wrist injurys.

digitize, scanners, digital cameras, vector graphics : a scanner takes a hard copy and put it into the computer as a sof copy. digintal cameras capture stills. a vector graphics store pictures as a collection of lines shapes and other objects.

MP3, MIDI (musical Instament Digital Interface) mp3 is the compression that can squeeze a music file to a fraction of iits original CD size with only slight loss.

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