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This dictionary of web design, photography, computer and graphic design terms has been compiled from many sources and is constantly being augmented and undergoing revisions to try and capture as much of the lingo and technical vocabulary as possible.  

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Data and Telecommunications, terms, concepts and abbreviations. (19 terms)
Data Warehouse
An organised collection of data stored in a central location. Information should be structured by subject to allow access by business area. Data Warehouse software often includes sophisticated compression and hashing technique
Computer Hardware parts, abbreviations and concepts. (6 terms)
Mother Board
1) The main Printed Circuit Board (PCB) of a computer - referred to as a Mother Board because other smaller PCB´s are sometimes attached to it - this are in turn referred to as daughter boards.

2) Any PCB that can accept daughter boards.

Graphic Design & prepress terms from desktop publishing to offset printing. (14 terms)
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language is the Markup-Language that evolved as the basis for layout of web-pages. It is a derivitive of the first SGML languages and has since been superceeded by derivitives of XML refertred to as XHTML.
Linux/Unix Terms and Commands. (9 terms)
TCP
Used in conjunction with the Internet Protocol (IP) to transmit information over the Internet in the form of units.

While IP takes care of handling the actual delivery of the data, TCP takes care of keeping track of the packets that a message is divided into for efficient routing through the Internet. For example, when a web page is downloaded from a web server, the TCP program layer in that server divides the file into packets, numbers the packets, and then forwards them individually to the ...
Photography terms and concepts, including digital and traditional photographic techniques. (11 terms)
Depth-of-field
The area of sharpness in a picture, extending in front of and behind the plane of the subject, that is most precisely focused by the lens.

You can control depth of field by varying three factors:
1) the size of the aperture
2) the distance of the camera from the subject
3) the focal length of the lens.

If you decrease the size of the Aperture, the depth of field increases; if you focus on a distant subject, depth of field will be greater than if you focus on a near subject; and if you...
Web design termonology, concepts, and abbreviations. (46 terms)
Hyperlink
A reference to a URL on the Internet that when clicked on will access the document specified.
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