Memory & Storage
primary memory unit that can be written to and read from.
What is RAM
Used to measure the ambient temperature. When referring to the weather, ambient temperature means the temperature of the surrounding air of the weather station.
What is temperature sensor?
A shape with four right angles?
What is square?
the name of cpu that is made up four course
What is a quad core?
This word means 'to continue to exist longer than something else'
What is outlast?
type of magnetic storage device that uses spinning disks.
What is hard disk drive?
Used to measure the number of hours of sunlight.
What is light sensor?
The opposite of horizontal line
What is a vertical line
A developer of the concept of the stored program computer.
Who is Joh von Neumann?
It describes 'connections between people or things'
What are bonds?
It is defined as the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read-write head.
What is latency?
It is a device that is responsible for carrying out specific actions based on the information received from sensors or the monitoring system
What is an actuator?
X multiplied by X
A component of processor that produce timing square
What is system clock?
This is 'a particular order in which things happen, come, or are arrenged'
What is a sequence?
Type of optical storage device with red laser colour and wavelength of laser light of 650nm
What is DVD?
When the fluid is touching the sensor, it detects that it is at that level. This type of sensor is often used in detection devices used to measure fluid levels such as the cooling water level in nuclear power plants to ensure that there is sufficient water to cool the reactors.
What is touch sensor?
360 degrees
How many degrees has a full angle?
A component of CPU that is responsible for arithmetic and logic operation.
What is Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)
This verb means 'to catch and hold onto something or someone'
What is capture?
This means that there are two individual recording layers. Two layers of a standard DVD are joined together with a transparent (polycarbonate) spacer, and a very thin reflector is sandwiched between the two layers
What is dual layering?
Often referred to simply as a magnetic field sensor, this sensor measures the change in the Earth’s natural magnetic field caused by the presence of a ferromagnetic object.
What is electromagnetic field sensor?
The width of a circle
What is a diameter?
A register that stores the current instruction being decoded and executed.
What is a current instruction register
It refers to something that has been 'kept in its original state or condition'
What is preserved?