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  2. Glossary of computer science - Wikipedia

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    Also simply application or app. Computer software designed to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for the benefit of the user. Common examples of applications include word processors, spreadsheets, accounting applications, web browsers, media players, aeronautical flight simulators, console games, and photo editors. This contrasts with system software, which is ...

  3. Overhead (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Besides the files themselves, computer file systems take a portion of the space to store directory names and listings, file names, files' sector locations, attributes such as the date and time of the last modification and creation, how the files are fragmented, written and free parts of the space, and a journal on some file systems.

  4. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    The interface is primarily used to connect a video source to a display device such as a computer monitor, though it can also be used to transmit audio, USB, and other forms of data. Unline HDMI, DisplayPort is open source. drive bay A standard-sized area within a computer case for adding hardware (hard drives, CD drives, etc.) to a computer.

  5. Oracle machine - Wikipedia

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    a read/write head, which rests on a single cell of the work tape and can read the data there, write new data, and increment or decrement its position along the tape; a control mechanism , which can be in one of a finite number of states , and which will perform different actions (reading data, writing data, moving the control mechanism, and ...

  6. Bottleneck (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Note that this definition is substantially different from a common meaning of a bottleneck. Also note, that this definition does not forbid a single link to be a bottleneck for multiple flows. A data rate allocation is max-min fair if and only if a data flow between any two nodes has at least one bottleneck link.

  7. Implicit data structure - Wikipedia

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    A trivial example of an implicit data structure is an array data structure, which is an implicit data structure for a list, and requires only the constant overhead of the length; unlike a linked list, which has a pointer associated with each data element, which explicitly gives the relationship from one element to the next.

  8. What Is a Cashier’s Check? Definition, Fees and How To Buy

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    The cashier’s check is then a legal and valid form of payment. Securely store your check until you plan to use it. Once your cashier’s check is in your hands, treat it like cash.

  9. Header (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Examples [ edit ] E-mail header : The text (body) is preceded by header lines indicating sender, recipient, subject, sending time stamp, receiving time stamps of all intermediate and the final mail transfer agents , and much more.