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

An electronic program that stores and processes

data

2. Desktop

The exterior/outer part of a computer

3. Icon

A graphic image describing the app on the screen

4. Shortcut

The shorter way to something

5. Taskbar

Displayed at the top of a screen that are clicked on to

start a software application

6. Wallpaper

The background on your computer/desktop

7. Hardware

The physical devices that make up a computer

program

8. Software

Managing information that is used by a computer

9. CPU

Central Processing Unit, the brains of the

computer, also where most calculations take place

10.

Modem

A electronic devic that transmits data to or from a

computer

11.
al

Peripher

The outer device (a peripheral device)

12.
Input
Device

Something that puts your information in a program

13.
Output
Device

Something that takes your information out of a

program

14.

CD-RW

A bland cd that can be recorded on or erased

15.

DVD-R

A blank dvd that can record music, movies or

other data on permanently

16.

Byte

A unit that most computers use to represent a

character

17.

RAM

Random Access Memory, Computer memory that

can be accessed randomly

18.

ROM

Read Only Memory, Storage that permanently

stores data on personal Computers

19.
Word
Processor

A word processing program that saves documents,

edits work ect.

20.
ng

Formatti putting it into a format

21.

Title bar

A bar at the top of a window which has the name

of the program

22.
Bar

Menu

Bar with dropdown menus

23.

Font

The type of writing

24.
Portrait
Orientation

Screen upright

25.
Landsca
pe
Orientation

Screen rotated sideways

26.

Margins

The edge or border of something

27.

Indent

Text starts further from the margin

28.

Bullets

A symbol used to put items in a list or make a

point form ect.

29.
s

Column

Vertical series of cells in spreadsheet

30.

Justify

Adjust to make a straight edge at the margins

31.
nt

Alignme

Adjust to make it in a straight line

32.
Desktop
Publishing

Design and production with a specialized software

33.
s

Graphic item displayed on the screen or stored

Graphic

34.
Design
Elements

Use of design items in an artistic image

35.

Text Box The box that your information goes in

36.

Text Art

37.

Spreads

The box that your pictures go in

On excel where the data is in columns and rows

heet
38.
et

Workshe Exercise for students

39.

Cell

On excel for formulas, text, or a numeric value

40.

Row

41.

Column

On excel rows are numbered and paired with cells

ex A1, B5
Vertical series of cells in a chart, table,
spreadsheet
Between rows and columns

42.
Cell
Address
43.

Range

44.

Label

Symbolises a cell, range of cells, formula, or

constant value.
Entry ex a footer or a heading

45.

Value

What its worth

46.

Formula

Allows you to calculate things faster than a

calculator
Multimedia presentation

47.
Electron
ic
Presentation

It is a page on power point

48.

Slide

49.
n

Transitio Transition from one slide to another

50.
Animati
on Scheme

let you to add visual effects to paragraphs,

bulleted items and titles

51.
Internet
Web Browser

Where different web pages are used

52.
k

Hyperlin

link from a document to another location or file

53.
World
Wide Web

allows documents hypertext links to be connected

to other documents

54.
Search
Engine

classifies items in a database that correspond to

keywords or characters specified by the user

55.
56.
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57.

Is a way to contact other people often used from,

Hotmail, g-mail etc.
Netiquet Correct way of communicating on the Internet.
E-Mail

Emotico

Facial expressions used with keyboard

:D

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58.
Domain
Name

Network address that identifies it

59.
Web
Surfing

Going through the internet

60.

Moral principles that manage a person's or group's behavior.

Ethics

61.
Utilitaria A system of ethics according to which the rightness or wrongness
of an action should be judged by its consequences.
n View
62.
Deontol The normative ethical position that judges the morality of an
action based on the action's adherence to a rule or rules.
ogy View
63.

Piracy

Using someone elses work

64.
ht

Copyrig

A legal way to let someone use your work

65.

Patent

license conferring a right or title for a set period

66.

Spam

Useless information sent to others

67.

Virus

A code that can corrupt a system

68.

Phishing An online account holder

Pharmin Directing internet users to a fake website that looks real

69.
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70.
Ergono
mics

Peoples efficiency in their working environment.

71.

RSI

Relative index strength

72.

MSI

An installer package

73.

CSR

Corporate social responsibility (business approach)

74.

E-Waste

Electronic equipment