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.
(19 terms)
FTP
A protocol developed to enable the transfer of files across a network. It provides a reletively insecure username and password security but has been more recently enhanced to allow for SSL encryption to provide a secure password exchange.
To some extent the use of FTP has been superceeded by SFTP (a component of SSH) or the secure file transfer protocol. |
Computer Hardware parts, abbreviations and concepts.
(6 terms)
SDRAM
A generic name for various kinds of dynamic random access memory: DRAM that are synchronized with the clock speed that the microprocessor is optimized for. This tends to increase the number of instructions that the processor can perform in a given time. The speed of SDRAM is rated in MHz rather than in nanoseconds (ns). This makes it easier to compare the bus speed and the RAM chip speed. You can convert the RAM clock speed to nanoseconds by dividing the chip speed into 1 billion ns (which is on...
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Graphic Design & prepress terms from desktop publishing to offset printing.
(14 terms)
PDL
Abbreviated as PDL, a language for describing the layout and contents of a printed page. The best-known PDLs are Adobe PostScript and Hewlett-Packard PCL (Printer Control Language), both of which are used to control laser printers.
Both PostScript and modern versions of PCL are object-oriented, meaning that they describe a page in terms of geometrical objects such as lines, arcs, and circles. |
Linux/Unix Terms and Commands.
(9 terms)
ls
ls [options] [names]
List the contents of a directory or directories. This is similar to the dos command īdirī frequently abbreviated in many shells to ll for ls -l which lists files with long format. If no [names] then the contents of the current directory are listed. Options -1, --format=single-column Print one entry per line of output. -a List all files, including the normally hidden files whose names begin with a period. -b, --escape Display nonprinting characters in octal an... |
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Photography terms and concepts, including digital and traditional photographic techniques.
(11 terms)
Wide Angle Lens
A lens with a short focal length that takes in a wide view of the subject. In the 35mm format, lenses with a focal length of 35mm or shorter are generally considered wide-angle lenses.
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Web design termonology, concepts, and abbreviations.
(46 terms)
robots.txt
A text file stored in the top level directory of a web site which is used to tell the Robots (spiders) what parts of a web site should, and should not be indexed.
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