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  2. Computer - Wikipedia

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    A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...

  3. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    See also References External links A Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) A dedicated video bus standard introduced by INTEL enabling 3D graphics capabilities; commonly present on an AGP slot on the motherboard. (Presently a historical expansion card standard, designed for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard (and considered high-speed at launch, one of the last off-chip parallel ...

  4. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    CFG—Context-free grammar; CFG—Control-flow graph; CG—Computer graphics; CGA—Color graphics array; CGI—Common Gateway Interface; CGI—Computer-generated imagery; CGT—Computational Graph Theory; CHAP—Challenge–handshake authentication protocol; CHS—Cylinder–head–sector; CIDR—Classless inter-domain routing; CIFS—Common ...

  5. Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary incorporates the text of other free resources, such as the Jargon File, as well as covering many other computing-related topics.Due to its availability under the GNU Free Documentation License, a copyleft license, it has in turn been incorporated in whole or part into other free content projects, such as Wikipedia.

  6. Glossary of computer graphics - Wikipedia

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    Color bleeding Unwanted effect in texture mapping. A color from a border of unmapped region of the texture may appear (bleed) in the mapped result due to interpolation. Color channels The set of channels in a bitmap image representing the visible color components, i.e. distinct from the alpha channel or other information. Color resolution ...

  7. Palette (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computer graphics, a palette is the set of available colors from which an image can be made. In some systems, the palette is fixed by the hardware design, and in others it is dynamic, typically implemented via a color lookup table (CLUT), a correspondence table in which selected colors from a certain color space's color reproduction range are assigned an index, by which they can be referenced.

  8. 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 ...

  9. List of color palettes - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of the color palettes for notable computer graphics, terminals and video game console hardware.. Only a sample and the palette's name are given here. More specific articles are linked from the name of each palette, for the test charts, samples, simulated images, and further technical details (including referenc