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GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
ADPCM
. Adaptive differential pulse code modulation.
ASYNCHRONOUS
. Pertaining to two or more processes that do not depend upon the
occurrence of a specific event such as a common timing signal.
BPS
. Bits per second. In serial transmission, the instantaneous bit speed with which a device or
channel transmits a character.
CODEC
. Pertaining to adapters that compress and decompress video files. The letters
"CODEC" represent "compression/decompression"; in the past, they represented
"coder/decoder."
COM
. Communication port.
COMPRESSION
. The process of eliminating gaps, empty fields, redundancies, and
unnecessary data to shorten the length of records or blocks.
DAA
. Data access arrangement.
DSP
. Digital signal processor.
DMA
. Direct memory access.
DSVD
. Digital simultaneous voice over data.
DUPLEX
. Pertaining to communication in which data can be sent and received at the same
time. Synonymous with full duplex.
FAX
. (1) Hard copy received from a facsimile machine. (T) Synonymous with telecopy. (2)
To transmit an image, using a telephone system and facsimile machines. (T)
ISA
. Industry standard architecture.
JPEG
. Joint Photographic Experts Group.
MCI
. Media control interface.
MIDI
. Musical Instrument Digital Interface.
MIDI FILE
. An audio file that has a MIDI format.
MIPS
. Millions of instructions per second.
