Acronyms & Abbreviations
HTML
Hyper Text Markup Language
It's what the 'A' in ATM stands for.
Automated
A programming tool or software development tool is a computer program that software developers use to create, debug, maintain, or otherwise support other programs and applications.
Development Tools
The unsolicited e-mail messages you receive. Originating from the name of Hormel's canned meat, it now also refers to junk e-mail or irrelevant postings to a newsgroup or bulletin board.
SPAM
This is the process of defining the architecture, product design, modules, interfaces, and data for an electronic control system to satisfy specified requirements.
System design
UML
Unified Modelling Language
A small image that can be inserted into text like a regular character as a way to represent expressions (happy ☺️, sad ☹️, etc).
emoji
This refers to the server, application, and database – the “code” that work behind the scenes – to deliver the website or app to users.
Back end
This is a document that stores data in a grid of horizontal rows and vertical columns.
spreadsheet
An input device that looks and acts like a pen. Instead of drawing with ink, it sends a digital signal to a compatible touchscreen, which interprets the pressure as drawing on the screen.
Stylus
BRB
Be right back
This type of software is designed to prevent, detect, and remove unwanted things from a computer. Once installed, these programs run in the background, scanning new files and performing regular system checks.
antivirus
This involves creating or modifying a software product to meet the needs of real customers.
Production programming
A piece of software that gains access to a computer by pretending to be benign or by hiding within some innocent-looking application attempting to gain private information without the computer user knowing.
Trojan Horse
This involves quickly moving your finger across a touchscreen or trackpad from left to right.
Swipe
ASAP
As soon as possible
This unit is equal to 1,000 megahertz (MHz) or 1,000,000,000 Hz. It is commonly used to measure computer processing speeds.
Gigahertz
A process that helps a business ensure its products meet the quality standards set by the company or its industry.
Quality assurance
To switch a computer off and on again, allowing its operating system and programs to be reloaded. Note that this is not the same as placing a computer into standby/hibernate and then resuming.
Reboot
Is software with malicious behavior that aims to gather information about a person or organization and send it to another entity in a way that harms the user—for example, by violating their privacy or endangering their device's security.
Spyware
TBD
To be determined
This is the coding or scrambling of information so that it can only be decoded and read by someone who has the correct decoding key. It is used in secure Web sites as well as other mediums of data transfer.
Encryption
This can be defined as a collection of proven techniques for proposing, planning, implementing, managing, and evaluating projects, combined with the art of managing people. It is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a broad range of activities to meet the specified requirements of a particular project.
Project Management
A small text file sent to your computer by a web site you have visited. These can be very useful in that they can allow the web site to recognize who you are when you return. They can be used to track your activity across different web sites in order to provide, for example, “targeted” advertisements.
Cookie
What does SATA stand for?
Serial Advanced Technology Attachment