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| CODEC | Program/device that compresses and decompresses digital video. Cinepak, Indeo (Intel), and RealVideo are examples. |
| Color Matching Systems | Sets of professionally designed colors that can be modified and used in a presentation. |
| Color Palette | Available color selections, ranging from 16 colors to 16.7 million. |
| Complex Search | A search that contains multiple criteria. |
| Compressed Files | Data encoded so it takes up less storage space. |
| Configuration | Makeup of a computer system (can include monitor, CPU, keyboard, etc.) |
| Copyright | Gives authors or artists the legal right to exclude others from using their works. |
| Crawlers | Also known as a spider. A program that automatically fetches Web pages. They are used to feed pages to search engines. |
| Cropping | Trimming an image in order to make it fit in a publication or to make the image more powerful in a publication. |
| Debugging | The process of systematically identifying and fixing a code or script’s bugs or errors. |
| Decompress | Restore compressed data back to its original size. |
| Definition list | Displays a term or short group of words with an indented explanation underneath. |
| Descender | The part of a letter that extends below the baseline. |
| Desktop Publishing Program | A program that allows you to manipulate text and graphics to create a variety of publication documents. |
| Device Driver | A program that links a component, such as a mouse, printer, CD ROM player, etc. to the operating system. |
| Digitize | Progress of converting video or audio signals, normally in waveform, into 1’s and 0’s. |
| Dingbats | Small typographical ornaments used to accent text or to decorate designs. |
| Directories | An organizational unit, or container, used to organize folders and files into a hierarchical structure. |
| Dithering | Blending colors to modify colors or produce new ones. |
| Domain | A group of computers and devices on a network that are administered as a unit with common rules and procedures. |
| Domain name | Exact location of the internet server and the type of organization. |
| Download | Transferring data (files) from a remote computer to a location on the user’s local computer. |
| Downloading | The process of copying a file from an online service to one's own computer. |
| Drop Cap | A large capital letter at the beginning of a newspaper or magazine story (or used for decoration). |
| Dropped frames | In digital video, this occurs when the computer cannot keep pace with the displayed images. |
| Em | A typographical unit of measure equal to the width of a capital letter M. |
| Empty tag | An HTML code that does not require a closing tag. An example is the <BR> tag used to insert a line break. |
| En | A typographical unit of measure that is equal to half of an em. |
| Execution File | A file name having a .com, .bat., or .exe extension; used to load computer software. |
| Facing pages | Pages in a publication that lie side by side on the computer screen (similar to those of an open book). |
| Fair Use | This permits some use of other’s copyrighted works even without approval. |
| File Formats | BMP, ASCII, JPG, GIF, AU, DOC. These are often show in in the extension for the file name. |
| File Infections | Viruses that attach themselves to .COM and .EXE files. |
| Format | The procedure of defining how information appears on a page. |
