Technologyfrom A to Z

W o r d s & D e f i n i t i o n s

By Susan West – Nevitt Computer Lab

The place that displays the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) or “address” of a web page.

Address Bar

An internet browser is

the program used to

access the internet and

view web pages on a computer.

Browser

CPUA CPU or Central

Processing Unit

Is the “brains”

of the computer.

Desktop The Desktop is the main computer

screen that shows icons that stand for files and

folders.

E-mail A system for

sending Electronic Mail messages from one computer

to another.

Dear Max,Sending an e-mail to see how you aredoing and tell you I will be visiting soon.Sending my love, Brianna

Flash Drive A small portable storage device that

plugs into a computer USB port

to transfer information from one computer to

another.

Google A widely used

search engine to find web pages with information

about a particular subject.

Hard Drive Computer

hardware inside a computer’s

CPU that holds information on

a magnetic disk.

Icon An Icon is a small picture representing a program,

file or object saved on the hard drive.

JPEGJPEG is a standard format for compressing and storing pictures on the hard drive.

JPEG is an abbreviation for `Joint Photographic Experts Group'

Keyboard

The keyboard is used to type letters, numbers and symbols as

well as a variety of functions.

Laptop A laptop computer is a smaller, lighter, portable version of

a desktop computer, that can

be used almost anywhere.

Monitor/Mouse

A mouse is a hand-operated device that controls the position of the cursor on the computer

screen as you move it.

A monitor is the display screen for a computer.

Network A computer network is

several computers linked

together to communicate

and share information.

Online Being online means having an

open line of communication

by being connected to a

computer or the internet.

Printer A printer is connected to a computer and able to receive and print text or pictures on

paper.

Qwerty

A Qwerty keyboard is the standard English language typewriter keyboard layout.

A Qwerty keyboard is the standard English language typewriter

keyboard layout.

Restart/Reboot

To have the computer shut down

and start up again.

Scroll Bar A scroll bar is a long thin box along one edge

of a window, which you click

on to move text up and

down or across the window.

Toolbar

A A toolbar is a row of buttons on the display screen that you click to

select various functions.

USB Universal Serial Bus is a means of connecting a

device to a computer so that they can communicate and exchange

data.

VirusA virus is a man-

made program that can cause

harm to computer files and programs.

Website A website is a

collection of pages containing

specific information on a particular topic

that was searched for.

XP Windows XP is an

operating system, which is software

that communicates with the hardware and allows other programs to run.

You Tube You Tube is a

video sharing website where

people can upload their

videos and view other people’s

videos.

Zip file A Zip file is a computer file

containing data that has been compressed to

reduce the size of the file.