TERM TABLE

TERM 1. Computer 2. Desktop 3. Icon 4. Shortcut 5. Taskbar 6. Hardware DEFINITION

A machine with many components. It is programmable for ones needs. It responds to sets of instructions. A file system on the computer. On the desktop there are icons to hold files such as pictures, documents etc. File or program represented by a small picture. Special files that help to conveniently access other files. Displays open applications, helps to access them quickly. This refers to an object such as disks, disk drives, display screens, keyboards, printers etc. Storage that you can touch. Anything that can be stored electronically. Storage that you cant touch. The Central Processing Unit, this is where all the thinking and calculations happens in the computer. Modulator-demodulator. A device or program that sends data over networks through lines and cables.

7. Software 8. CPU 9. Modem

10. Peripheral 11. Input Device 12. Output Device 13. Byte 14. RAM 15. ROM 16. Word Processor

Not a part of the computer devices. For example, printer, USB etc. A device that inputs data into a computer. Such as a USB, keyboard or mouse. A computer component that outputs information from a computer. Such as a printer, monitor, or speakers. Storage that holds a single character. 1 byte = 8 bits Random Access Memory. Computer memory can easily be access randomly. Read-Only Memory. Data that cant be rewritten, read, and cant be removed. A program used to make word documents. Such as Open Office, and Microsoft Word.

17. Formatting 18. Title bar 19. Menu Bar

Arranging information like deleting, moving around and (re)writing data. The bar on the top of the window containing the file or application name. The bar right below the title bar at the top of the window. Each option in this bar includes a drop down menu. Different styles of lettering. Refers to vertical orientation. Refers to horizontal orientation. Space on the bottom, top, left, and right on a word document. Small graphic that emphasizes and organizes list. Vertical section in table used to organize information. Refers to setting words to the left and right margins, in word processing. Refers to how/where text is positioned. Using design elements to create high quality documents. Refers to picture or the capability of displaying or editing pictures. Component in design such as line, shape, colour, texture. Box that holds text. Design added to text. A table of values hat is organized in rows and columns. A box in a spreadsheet where one can enter a single piece of data. Horizontal section in a spreadsheet Vertical section in a spreadsheet Location in which the cell is intersected by its row and column Group or block of cells that are selected. Text in entered into a cell. Numbers entered into a spreadsheet. Can refer to text, dates, numbers. Equations or expression relating the information in the cells, together.

20. Font 21. Portrait Orientation 22. Landscape Orientation 23. Margins 24. Bullets 25. Columns 26. Justify 27. Alignment 28. Desktop Publishing 29. Graphics 30. Design Elements 31. Text Box 32. Text Art 33. Spreadsheet 34. Cell 35. Row 36. Column 37. Cell Address 38. Range 39. Label 40. Value 41. Formula

42. Electronic Presentation 43. Transition 44. Internet Web Browser 45. Hyperlink 46. World Wide Web 47. Search Engine 48. E-Mail 49. Netiquette 50. Ethics 51. Piracy 52. Copyright 53. Patent 54. Virus 55. E-Waste

Communicating through pictures, text, animation, drawings, videos, audio. Animation or effects when the slides switch in a presentation. Software to present and retrieve information to and from connected computers in the world wide web. Text connected to another location or file. A system that documents connect to each other. Programs that use keywords to search for documents. Software that can send information to anyone. Type of Social networking. Communicating on the internet correctly. The moral principles in a person's behaviour. Illegal distribution of copyrighted digital files. Protection given to an authors, artists, composer, publisher's etc. original work. A government license to stop people from making, selling, or using an invention. Program or code that was downloaded onto a computer that can messes with files. Electronic waste. When electronic are disposed in a particular manner.