Glossary
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G-5
in.
inches
interrupt
a computer signal indicating that the CPU should suspend its current
task to service a designated activity
I/O
input/output—the transfer of data to/from a computer system involving
communications channels, operator interface instruments, and/or data
acquisition and control interfaces
ISA
industry standard architecture bus
ITS
International Temperature Scale
K
K
(1) kelvin—a unit of temperature
kbytes/s
a unit for data transfer that means 1,000 or 10
3
bytes/s
kS
1,000 samples
L
LabVIEW
laboratory virtual instrument engineering workbench
latch
digital device that stores the digital data based on a control signal
LED
light-emitting diode
M
m
meter—a unit of length
M
(1) Mega, the standard metric prefix for 1 million or 10
6
, when used
with units of measure such as volts and hertz; (2) mega, the prefix for
1,048,576, or 2
20
, when used with B to quantify data or computer
memory
MB
megabytes of memory
Mbytes/s
a unit for data transfer that means 2
20
or 1,048,576 bytes/s
