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Data and Telecommunications, terms, concepts and abbreviations.
(19 terms)
Printed Circuit Board
It usually consists of a metallic conductor pattern on an organic insulating substrate, more complex circuits have several layers stacked togeather. After assembly where components are added, it is known as a printed wiring assembly (PWA).
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Computer Hardware parts, abbreviations and concepts.
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Graphic Design & prepress terms from desktop publishing to offset printing.
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CMYK
An image format that records pixel information using the additive colour model of combining amounts of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black to create a wide gamut of colours. This is based on the way standard web offset printing (SWOP) inks are combines on a press to create most printed colour documents.
In Graphic design when the final goal is to send something for SWOP printing it is oftin a good idea to work in CMYK as opposed to RGB to ensure a better colour match and to avoid problems when c... |
Linux/Unix Terms and Commands.
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whereis
Locate the binary, source, and manual page files for specified commands/files. The supplied filenames are first stripped of leading pathname components and any (single) trailing extension of the form .ext (for example, .c). Prefixes of s. resulting from use of source code control are also dealt with. whereis then attempts to locate the desired program in a list of standard Linux directories (e.g., /bin, /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin/, etc.).
Options -b Search only for binaries. -f Term... |
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Photography terms and concepts, including digital and traditional photographic techniques.
(11 terms)
Barrel-distortion
A lens Aberration or defect that causes straight lines to bow outward, away from the center of the image.
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Web design termonology, concepts, and abbreviations.
(46 terms)
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