Vocabulary Week 5 (6th Grade)

Lenovo

Founded in 1984, one of the world's largest manufacturers of computers and portables

KVM

Keyboard, Video, and Mouse switch, a KVM switch is a hardware device that enables you to share a single keyboard, mouse, and monitor between multiple computers.

Laser

Short for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, a laseris an intense beam of light first developed by Physicist Theodore Maiman May 16, 1960.

LED

Short for Light-Emitting Diode, LED is a semiconductor that illuminates when an electrical charge passes through it

LAWN

Short for local area wireless network, a network utilizing radio transmissions to communicate with other computers or network devices.

Flat-panel display

Sometimes abbreviated as FPD, a flat-panel display is a thin screen display found on all portable computers and is the new standard for desktop computers. Unlike CRT monitors, flat-panel displays use liquid-crystal display (LCD) or light-emitting diode (LED) technology

monitor

VDT (video display terminal) and VDU (video display unit), it is an output device that displays video images and text. A monitor is made up of circuitry, a screen, a power supply, and buttons to adjust screen settings, and casing that holds all of these components.

loop

describes the process of a software program or script repeats the same instructions or processes the same information over and over until receiving the order to stop

Knights of Lambda Calculus

is a (mostly) fictional organization of Lisp and Scheme hackers. From MIT, which may or may not have power over the Internet

Linux

is a free and open-source operating system first developed by Linus Torvalds

Laptop

is a portable computer that has most, or all, of the same abilities as a desktop, but is small enough for easy mobility. first portable computer, which was released on September 1975. The computer weighed 55 pounds and had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9 MHz PALM processor, and 64 KB of RAM

motherboard

is a printed circuit board that is the foundation of a computer, located on the back side or at the bottom of the computer chassis. It allocates power and allows communication to the CPU, RAM, and all other computer hardware components.

Lurking

is a term used to describe an individual who reads online messages in a discussion forum or chat room without participating in that conversation

Laser printer

was first developed at Xerox PARC by Gary Starkweather and released in 1971 that utilizes laser technology to print images on the paper. Laser printers are often used for corporate, school, and other environments that require print jobs to be completed quickly and in large quantities.

LAN port

Ethernet port, network connection, and network port, the LAN port allows a computer to connect to a network using a wired connection.