backdrop
background
backcloth | scenery hung at back of stage |
background desktop
screen background | (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear |
central processing unit
CPU
C.P.U.
central processor
processor
mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
computer
computing machine
computing device
data processor
electronic computer
information processing system | a machine for performing calculations automatically |
computer system
computing system
automatic data processing system
ADP system
ADPS | a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage |
| background | a person's social heritage: previous experience or training, he is a lawyer with a sports background |
noise level
background level | the amplitude level of the undesired background noise |
| background background knowledge | information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem, the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident |
background
ground | the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground, he posed her against a background of rolling hills |
information science
informatics
information processing
IP | the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information |
natural language processing
NLP
human language technology | the branch of information science that deals with natural language information |
natural language processor
natural language processing application | an application program that deals with natural language text |
word processor
word processing system | an application that provides the user with tools needed to write and edit and format text and to send it to a printer |
LISP
list-processing language | a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists |
| background | relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation, when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background |
background
background signal | extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured, they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals |
background noise
ground noise | extraneous noise contaminating sound measurements that cannot be separated from the desired signal |
| background radiation | radiation coming from sources other than those being observed |
cosmic background radiation
CBR
cosmic microwave background radiation
CMBR
cosmic microwave background
CMB | (cosmology) the cooled remnant of the hot big bang that fills the entire universe and can be observed today with an average temperature of about . kelvin |
administrative data processing
business data processing | data processing in accounting or business management |
automatic data processing
ADP | data processing by a computer |
background processing
backgrounding | the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system |
| batch processing | the serial execution of computer programs |
| data processing | (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information |
distributed data processing
remote-access data processing
teleprocessing | data processing in which some of the functions are performed in different places and connected by transmission facilities |
electronic data processing
EDP | automatic data processing by electronic means without the use of tabulating cards or punched tapes |
foreground processing
foregrounding | the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system |
integrated data processing
IDP | automatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system |
| list processing | processing data that is given in the form of chained lists |
mineral extraction
mineral processing
mineral dressing
ore processing
ore dressing
beneficiation | crushing and separating ore into valuable substances or waste by any of a variety of techniques |
multiprocessing
parallel processing | simultaneous processing by two or more processing units |
| priority processing | data processing in which the operations performed are determined by a system of priorities |
| processing | preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure, the processing of newly arrived immigrants, the processing of ore to obtain minerals |
real-time processing
real-time operation | data processing fast enough to keep up with an outside process |
| serial processing | sequential processing by two or more processing units |
| word processing | rapid and efficient processing (storage and printing) of linguistic data for composition and editing |
setting
background
scope | the state of the environment in which a situation exists, you can't do that in a university setting |
| processing time | the time it takes to complete a prescribed procedure, they increased output by decreasing processing time |
command processing overhead time
command processing overhead
command overhead
overhead | (computer science) the processing time required by a device prior to the execution of a command |
background
play down
downplay | understate the importance or quality of, he played down his royal ancestry |