PawPrint.net Glossary of Terms
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.
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T1
CLFI name for a Digital Signal 1 (DS1) a transmission line with bandwidth sufficient to carry 24 DS0 (64 or 56 Kbps depending on coding) channels.
Because of overhead a T1 being delivered by a provider for data communications usually provides 1.344Mbps of bandwidth, whereas the T1 consumes 1.544Mbps of bandwidth. With B8ZS coding the T1 can provide 1.536MBps of bandwidth (this has become common in modern networks) The T1 was frequently thought of as the basic building block in Telecommunic... |
Computer Hardware parts, abbreviations and concepts.
(6 terms)
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Graphic Design & prepress terms from desktop publishing to offset printing.
(14 terms)
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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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. where 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 Termin... |
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Photography terms and concepts, including digital and traditional photographic techniques.
(11 terms)
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Web design termonology, concepts, and abbreviations.
(46 terms)
SMTP
A set of rules used to define how email should be sent and governing communication between mail servers to achieve this end.
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