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@ - at, at sign, ape, cabbage, commercial at, cyclone, each, monkey, snail, rose, strudel, vortex, whorl, whirlpool. A symbol to which number 64 is assigned in ASCII characters; it is used in writing e-mail addresses to separate the user name from the domain in which their account is open.
ADC – converting analogue into digital format, such as that the sound card performs when digitalizing a sound wave into a wave-type file. ADN - (Advanced Digital Line) Digital line of the transfer speed, most often 56 kbps (kilobits per second). Rented line.
Address – each web page on the Internet is assigned a unique recognizable address. Address is also known as URL (Uniformed Resource Locator).
Analogue signal – continually changeable type of voltage or a wave shape, such as a sound wave etc. Anonymous FTP – User gets access to a remote server through FTP (File Transport Protocol) without having a user account on the same server. When connecting to a server, a user will enter their e-mail address instead of a password, and the system supporting this service will assign the user a user name "anonymous".
ASCII - (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). Each character is assigned a six-bit, seven-bit or eight-bit code, depending on the desired range of ASCII character list. Attachments – Multimedia files attached to an e-mail; they can be textual, graphics, sound, video, calculation tables, data bases, even whole applications or programs.
AVI – Video compression standard developed by Microsoft Windows. Video clips on World Wide Web are most often available in Avi and QuickTime formats.
Awk – Programming language for textual data. It was named after the initials of its three authors (Aho, Weinberger and Keringhan). |
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