Technology Terms

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface To AF (Technology Terms)

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) is an industry specification for the efficient handling of power consumption in desktop and mobile computers. ACPI specifies how a computer’s basic input/output system, operating system, and peripheral devices communicate with each other about power usage. With ACPI, the following capabilities are possible (assuming […]

Agent To Amateur radio (Technology Terms)

Agent On the Internet, an agent (also called an intelligent agent) is a program that gathers information or performs some other service without your immediate presence and on some regular schedule. Typically, an agent program, using parameters you have provided, searches all or some part of the Internet, gathers information you’re interested in, and presents […]

Amaya To Amplitude modulation (Technology Terms)

Amaya Amaya is the Web browser that was developed by members of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as a practical tool as well as a testing ground for W3C ideas. Amaya includes an HTML editor as well as a viewer and can be downloaded freely from the W3C Web site for use in either […]

AMR To Any key (Technology Terms)

AMR AMR (Audio/Modem Riser) is a specification developed by Intel for packaging the analog I/O audio functions of modem circuitry together with a codec chip (which converts back and forth from analog to digital) on a small board that plugs directly into a computer’s motherboard. The small board is called a riser because it rises […]

Anycast To Aptent (Technology Terms)

Anycast In Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), anycast is communication between a single sender and the nearest of several receivers in a group. The term exists in contradistinction to multicast, communication between a single sender and multiple receivers, and unicast, communication between a single sender and a single receiver in a network. Anycasting is designed […]

Arachniography To AS/400 (Technology Terms)

Arachniography An arachniography (pronounced uh-RAK-nee-AH-gruf-ee) is a bibliography of Web pages. The term was coined by Andrew J. Butrica of NASA who first considered "webography" but didn’t like the mixing of word origins. He asked his brother, James, who teaches Classics at Memorial University, for a classical language equivalent of "web." In Greek, arachne means […]

ASCII To Atom (Technology Terms)

ASCII ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet. In an ASCII file, each alphabetic, numeric, or special character is represented with a 7-bit binary number (a string of seven 0s or 1s). 128 possible characters are defined. UNIX and DOS-based operating […]

Atomic To Autoexec.bat (Technology Terms)

Atomic In ancient philosophy, an atom was the ultimate unit of matter on which more complex views of material reality were based. In computer programming, atomic describes a unitary action or object that is essentially indivisible, unchangeable, whole, and irreducible. Here are some usages: 1) In Structured Query Language, an atomic function is one that […]

Automagically To Back-end (Technology Terms)

Automagically Automagically is a term used when the user either doesn’t want to go into the technical details of something or doesn’t know the details but does know what the end result has to be. The term is sometimes used in planning and design discussions and trade show demonstrations. For example, one might say: "Our […]

Backhaul To Bandpass filter (Technology Terms)

Backhaul Backhaul, a term probably derived from the trucking industry, has several usages in information technology. 1) In satellite communication, backhaul is used to mean getting data to a point from which it can be distributed over a network. For example, to deliver a live television program from Chicago to authorized DirecPC satellite terminals around […]

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