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Internet-related prefixes such as e-, i-, cyber-, info-, techno-and net-are added to a wide range of existing words to describe new, Internet- or computer-related flavors of existing concepts, often electronic products and services that already have a non-electronic counterpart.
IT—Information Technology; ITIL—Information Technology Infrastructure Library; ITL—Interval Temporal Logic; ITU—International Telecommunication Union; IVR(S)—Interactive Voice Response (System)
Ethernet – a computer networking technology. According to Robert Metcalfe (one of its initial developers), he devised the name in an early company memo as an endocentric compound of " luminiferous ether "—the "substance" that was widely believed to be the medium through which electromagnetic radiation propagated in the late 19th century ...
This is an alphabetical list of notable technology terms. It includes terms with notable applications in computing, networking, and other technological fields.
Meaning Primary Applicability [4] Normative Reference ACK: Acknowledgement Transport and other layers TCP/IP, for example. RFC 793 ACL: Access control list Security, application layer Access control list, Cisco overview: ADSL: Asymmetric digital subscriber line Telecom ITU-T G.992.5 Annex M, for example AES: Advanced Encryption Standard Security
The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from A to G. See also the lists from H to O and from P to Z . Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are not listed here but instead in the entry for List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes .
Semi-is a numerical prefix meaning "half". The prefix alone is often used as an abbreviation when the rest of the word (the thing which half of is being described) is clear from context. Semi or SEMI may refer to: Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) Semiconductor industry, also known as semi or semis in financial news
As such, slow communications technologies like postal mail and pneumatic tubes are excluded from the telecommunication's definition. [5] [6] Telecommunication is a compound noun of the Greek prefix tele-(τῆλε), meaning distant, far off, or afar, [7] and the Latin verb communicare, meaning to share.