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Glossary
Symbol
Prefix
Value
m
milli
10
– 3
c
centi
10
– 2
k
kilo
10
3
M
mega
10
6
Symbols
°
Degrees
%
Percent
A
A
Amperes
AC
Alternating current
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
asynchronous
1. Software—an action or event that occurs at an unpredictable time with
respect to the execution of a program
2. Hardware—a property of an event that occurs at an arbitrary time,
without synchronization to a reference clock
B
backplane
An assembly, typically a printed circuit board, with connectors and signal
paths that bus the connector pins
bandwidth
The range of frequencies present in a signal, or the range of frequencies to
which a measuring device can respond