image compression | the compression of graphics for storage or transmission |
bitmap electronic image | an image represented as a two dimensional array of brightness values for pixels |
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 |
effigy image simulacrum | a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture), the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln, the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone |
idol graven image god | a material effigy that is worshipped, thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, money was his god |
orthicon image orthicon | a now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera, electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons |
picture image icon ikon | a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface, they showed us the pictures of their wedding, a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them |
scanner digital scanner image scanner | an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer |
image | the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public, although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry, the company tried to project an altruistic image |
persona image | (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world, a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty |
mirror image reflection reflexion | a likeness in which left and right are reversed |
spitting image | a perfect likeness or counterpart |
image mental image | an iconic mental representation, her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate |
imagination image thought-image | a mental image produced by the imagination |
visual percept visual image | a percept that arises from the eyes, an image in the visual system |
memory image | a mental image of something previously experienced |
visual image visualization visualisation | a mental image that is similar to a visual perception |
auditory image | a mental image that is similar to an auditory perception |
prototype paradigm epitome image | a standard or typical example, he is the prototype of good breeding, he provided America with an image of the good father |
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 |
trope figure of speech figure image | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
image range range of a function | (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined, the image of f(x) x^ is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers |
double image look-alike | someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor), he could be Gingrich's double, she's the very image of her mother |
iconoclast image breaker | a destroyer of images used in religious worship |
virtual image | a reflected optical image (as seen in a plane mirror) |
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 |
enantiomorphism mirror-image relation | the relation of opposition between crystals or molecules that are reflections of one another |
processing time | the time it takes to complete a prescribed procedure, they increased output by decreasing processing time |