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Glossary of Terms
If you’re not quite sure what a term or phrase means, check out the following descriptions of common terms and phrases below.
A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-W-X-Y-Z
A -
- AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript And XML
- ANSI - American National Standards Institute
- ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- ASP - Active Server Pages
B -
- BBS - Bulletin Board System
- bps - Bits Per Second
- Bps - Bytes Per Second
C -
- CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
- CSV - Comma Separated Variable
D -
- DLL - Dynamic Linked Library
E -
- E-mail - Electronic mail
F -
- FTP - File Transport Protocol
G -
- GHz - Giga Hertz
- 1,000,000,000 cycles per second
- GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
H -
- HTML - Hyper Text Mark-up Language
I -
- IP - Internet Protocol
J -
- JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
K -
- kb - Kilo Bit
- One kilo bit equates to 1,024 bits
- kB - Kilo Byte
- One kilo byte equates to 1,024 bytes, or 8,192 bits
- kbps - Kilo Bits Per Second
- One kilo bit per second equates to 1,024 bits per second
- kHz - Kilo Hertz
- 1,000 cycles per second
L -
M -
- MHz - Mega Hertz
- 1,000,000 cycles per second
- MP3 - MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
- MPEG - Moving Picture Experts Group
N -
O -
- ODBC - Open DataBase Connectivity
P -
- PDF - Portable Document Format
- PHP - Pre Hypertext Preprocessor
- Podcast - iPod broadcast
Q -
R -
- RAM - Random Access Memory
- RSS - Really Simple Syndication
S -
- SQL - Structured Query Language
- A standardised language used to talk to databases
T -
- TCP/IP - Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
U -
- URL - Uniform Resource Locator
V -
- VOIP - Voice Over Internet Protocol
- VPN - Virtual Private Network
W -
- WMA - Windows Media Audio
- WWW - World Wide Web
X -
- XHTML - eXtensible HyperText Mark-up Language
- XML - eXtensible Mark-up Language
- XSL - eXtensible Stylesheet Language
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