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 processes and stores

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.
m

Mode

A electronic devic that transmits data to or from a

computer

11.
Periph
eral

The outer device (a peripheral device)

12.
Input
Device

Something that puts your information in a program

13.
Output Something that takes your information out of a
Device
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.
Forma
tting

putting it into a format

21.
bar

Title

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.
Portrai Screen upright
t Orientation
25.
Lands
cape
Orientation

Screen rotated sideways

26.
s

Margin The edge or border of something

27.

Indent

28.

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

form ect.

29.
ns

Colum

Vertical series of cells in spreadsheet

30.

Justify

Adjust to make a straight edge at the margins

Text starts further from the margin

31.
Align
ment

Adjust to make it in a straight line

32.
Deskt
op
Publishing

Design and production with a specialized software

33.
cs

Graphi Graphic item displayed on the screen or stored

34.
Design Use of design items in an artistic image
Elements
35.

Text

The box that your information goes in

Box
36.
Art

Text

The box that your pictures go in

37.
Sprea
dsheet

On excel where the data is in columns and rows

38.
Works
heet

Exercise for students

39.

Cell

On excel for formulas, text, or a numeric value

40.

Row

41.
n

Colum

On excel rows are numbered and paired with cells

ex A1, B5
Vertical series of cells in a chart, table, spreadsheet

42.
Cell
Address

Between rows and columns

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.
a

Formul Allows you to calculate things faster than a

calculator

47.
Electro Multimedia presentation
nic
Presentation
It is a page on power point
48.
Slide
49.
ion

Transit

Transition from one slide to another

50.
Anima let you to add visual effects to paragraphs, bulleted
tion Scheme items and titles
51.
Intern Where different web pages are used
et Web
Browser

52.
ink

Hyperl

53.
World
Wide Web

link from a document to another location or file

allows documents hypertext links to be connected
to other documents

54.
Search classifies items in a database that correspond to
keywords or characters specified by the user
Engine

55.

E-Mail

56.
Netiqu
ette
57.
on

Is a way to contact other people often used from,

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

Emotic Facial expressions used with keyboard

58.
Domai
n Name

Network address that identifies it

59.
Web
Surfing

Going through the internet

:D

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

behavior.
61.
Utilitar A system of ethics to which the rightness or
wrongness of an action
ian View
62.
Deont is the normative ethical position that judges the
morality
ology View
60.

Ethics

63.

Piracy

he unauthorized use of another's work

64.
ght

Copyri

To copy another persons work

65.

Patent

66.

Spam

67.

Virus

68.
ng

Phishi

69.
ing

Pharm

license conferring a right or title for a set period

70.
Ergon
omics

irrelevant or inappropriate messages sent on the

Internet to a large number of recipients
a code that is capable of copying itself and
corrupting the system or destroying data
Activity of tricking an online account holder of
financial information by posing as a legitimate
company.
the fraudulent practice of directing Internet users to
a fake website that copies the appearance of the
real one, to order to obtain personal information like
passwords, account numbers, etc.
The study of people's efficiency in their working
environment.

71.

RSI

relative strength index

72.

MSI

73.

CSR

74.
EWaste

An installer package file format used by Windows.

Corporate social responsibility
Electronic Equipment (WEEE) - is the term used to

describe old, end-of-life