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GLOSSARY

noun U [9] a Microsoft

Windows program that allows the user
to see the files and folders on all the
disks attached to the computer. It can
be used for general housekeeping
such as moving or deleting files.
noun U [9] a
Microsoft Windows program for playing
multimedia files including audio and
video
verb [18] to delete
all the files stored on a disk
adj [23] using
radio signals without the need for
connecting wires or cables
noun U [16]
abbreviation for wireless markup
language. A language similar to HTML
used for designing webpages suitable
for mobile phones.
noun U [1, 10, 22]
a widely-used wordprocessing program
developed by the Microsoft
Corporation. It is a component of the
Microsoft Office package.
noun
U [5, 6, 25] the process of typing and
editing text using a wordprocessor
noun
C [16, 18] a type of computer
application program used for typing
and editing text documents
noun C [2, 6, 22]
a powerful desktop computer used by
power users for work that requires a
lot of processing, e. g. graphic design
noun U [7, 13, 20, 22] an
information service on the Internet that
allows document pages to be accessed
using hyperlinks
noun U [19] acronym for
write once read many. A standard for
optical storage devices that only
allows data to be recorded on to a
particular optical disk once but allows
the data to be read from the disk over
and over again. It is commonly used for
archiving data.
noun U [23] acronym for
Web-ready appliances protocol. A set
of communications system standards
that enable web-connected appliances
to communicate.
noun C [9] a compact disk
drive that allows the user to write data
onto a CD as well as read data stored
on the CD
noun
C [2] a buffer storage system where the
processor writes changes only to the

cache and not to main memory. Cache

entries that have changed are flagged
as 'dirty' telling the cache controller to
write their contents back to main
memory before using the space to
cache new data.
noun C [2] a buffer storage system
where the processor writes directly to
both the cache and main memory at
the same time
noun
U [12] abbreviation for the World Wide
Web. The Internet service used for
connecting to multimedia webpages.

noun U [6]
a windowing system used with
different versions of Unix
noun U [12] the
International Telegraphic Union packetswitching data communications
standard for connecting computers and
a public network
noun U [2]
abbreviation for extended graphics
array. An IBM display screen standard
with a resolution of 1024X768 pixels
and up to 65, 536 colours.
noun U [7, 14, 16, 20,
21, 25] abbreviation for extensible
markup language

noun U [15, 20] the name

of a popular Internet search engine
website