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a single computer instruction which symbolizes and is converted at the time of program execution or by a compiler into a series of instructions in the same computer language...
core dump
An complete and exact copy of the contents of a computer core9 usually produced as a file when some serious error occurs in the execution of a computer program and used for debugging the program which produced the error...
machine language
a set of instructions3 in a binary form that can be executed directly by the CPU of a computer without translation by a computer program...
log in
To establish communication with a host computer from a terminal or remote computer...
hard wired
Contained within the circuitry of a computer or computer peripheral device and not changeable by programming of functions as error correction is hard wired into the circuit of the disk drive so it proceeds very rapidly...
disassembler
a computer program that takes as input a computer program in machine language and produces an equivalent assembly language file...
E mail
electronic mail a digitally encoded message sent from one computer to another through an electronic communications medium especially by means of a computer network...
ftp
An acronym for file transfer protocol a standardized protocol used to allow transmission of files between computers as send me the file by ftp It consists of a set of coded signals which are transmitted between computers and which inform the receiving computer of the nature of a packet of information to be transmitted and inform the transmitting computer when a packet has been successfully received...
interest
interest [probably alteration of earlier interesse, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin, from Latin, to be between, make a difference, concern, from inter- between, among + esse to be] 1 : a right, title, claim, or share in property Article Nine security interest : security interest in this entry beneficial interest : the right to the use and benefit of property [a beneficial interest in the trust] contingent interest : a future interest whose vesting is dependent upon the occurrence or nonoccurrence of a future event compare vested interest in this entry controlling interest : sufficient stock ownership in a corporation to exert control over policy equitable interest : an interest (as a beneficial interest) that is held by virtue of equitable title or that may be claimed on the ground of equitable relief [claimed an equitable interest in the debtor's assets] executory interest : a future interest other than a remainder or reversion that may take effect upon the divesting...
internet
A large network3 of numerous computers connected through a number of major nodes of high speed computers having high speed communications channels between the major nodes and numerous minor nodes allowing electronic communication among millions of computers around the world usually referred to as the internet It is the basis for the World Wide Web...
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