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| Short for application , or a computer program designed for a specific task. | app |
| A particular use or function of something. | application |
| The software program or application that someone uses to find and retrieve information from web pages on the internet. | browser (in computing) |
| To use special language to write or revise a program that makes a computer do something. | code (in computing) |
| A slang term for developing computer programming — or software — that performs a particular, desired computational task. | coding |
| A set of instructions that a computer uses to perform some analysis or computation. The writing of these instructions is known as computer programming. | computer program |
| The scientific study of the principles and use of computers. | computer science |
| Facts and/or statistics collected together for analysis but not necessarily organized in a way that gives them meaning. For digital information (the type stored by computers), those data typically are numbers stored in a binary code, portrayed as strings of zeros and ones. | data |
| (in computer science and engineering) An adjective indicating that something has been developed numerically on a computer or on some other electronic device, based on a binary system (where all numbers are displayed using a series of only zeros and ones). | digital |
| (in computing) To get unapproved — often illegal — access to a computer, usually to steal or alter data or files. Someone who does this is known as a hacker. | hack |
| An electronic communications network. It allows computers anywhere in the world to link into other networks to find information, download files and share data (including pictures). | internet |
| The network of physical objects that have been equipped with electronic devices to let them gather and share information. This allows these objects to observe and interact with their environment. | Internet of Things |
| The strategy for getting people to adopt a new policy or buy new products. In many cases, the marketing may rely on advertising or getting celebrities and other trendsetters to endorse a policy or product. | marketing |
| A group of interconnected people or things. | network |
| A term that refers to things that can be found or done on the internet. | online |
| Waves in a part of the electromagnetic spectrum; they are a type that people now use for long-distance communication. Longer than the waves of visible light, radio waves are used to transmit radio and television signals; it is also used in radar. | radio waves |
| A device that picks up information on physical or chemical conditions — such as temperature, barometric pressure, salinity, humidity, pH, light intensity or radiation — and stores or broadcasts that information. Scientists and engineers often rely on sensors to inform them of conditions that may change over time or that exist far from where a researcher can measure them directly. (in biology) The structure that an organism uses to sense attributes of its environment, such as heat, winds, chemicals, moisture, trauma or an attack by predators. | sensor |
| A term for a computer — and especially the software on it — that provides services (hence, the name server) to other computers. A server computer program, for instance, stands ready to fulfill requests by its clients (which are other computer programs). For instance, a web server pulls up website pages or other files upon request. The web browser that you use on your computer to find things on the internet is one type of client. It calls up files from a web server. | server |
| An island nation located just off the tip of Malaysia in southeast Asia. Formerly an English colony, it became an independent nation in 1965. Its roughly 55 islands (the largest is Singapore) comprise some 687 square kilometers (265 square miles) of land, and are home to more than 5.3 million people. | Singapore |
| Some product or machine that can send information to and retrieve information from the internet, or that can be controlled via the internet, such as by using an app on a smartphone. | smart device |
| A cell (or mobile) phone that can perform a host of functions, including search for information on the internet. | smartphone |
| The mathematical instructions that direct a computer’s hardware, including its processor, to perform certain operations. | software |
| A term for something that is advanced, complex and/or elegant. | sophisticated |
| An online social network that allows users to post messages (called tweets) containing no more than 140 characters. | Twitter |
| (in computing) An abbreviation of World Wide Web, it is a slang term for the internet. | Web |
