Friday, 29 March 2024, 03:56 AM

Site: Webmaster Technology Institute
Course: Webmaster Technology Institute (AWS)
Glossary: Global Technical Glossary

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Allows the user to send and receive messages from one computer to another over any distance.,
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Electric commerce: the conducting of business communication and transactions over networks and through computers. Specifically, ecommerce is the buying and selling of goods and services, and the transfer of funds, through digital communications.
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electronic funds transfer at point of sale
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Electronic mail. Mail composed and transmitted on a computer system or network.
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Encryption is the conversion of data into a form, called a ciphertext , that cannot be easily understood by unauthorized people. Decryption is the process of converting encrypted data back into its original form, so it can be understood.

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"Software which contains symbols and templates to build a variety of equations within, say, a word processor.",
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Equity of access means that all people have the information they need-regardless of age, education, ethnicity, language, income, physical limitations or geographic barriers.

(taken from ALA)

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entity relationship
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An expression in a programming language is a combination of values, variables, operators, and functions that are interpreted (evaluated) according to the particular rules of precedence and of association for a particular programming language, which computes and then produces (returns, in a stateful environment) another value.
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n. something that especially attracts oneos attention eyecatching