Toshiba Satellite A40 User Manual page 194

J
jumper: A small clip or wire that allows you to change the hardware
K
K: Taken from the Greek word kilo, meaning 1000; often used as
KB: See kilobyte.
keyboard: An input device containing switches that are activated by
kilobyte (KB): A unit of data storage equal to 1024 bytes. See also byte
L
level 2 cache: See cache.
Light Emitting Diode (LED): A semiconductor device that emits light
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD): Liquid crystal sealed between two sheets
LSI: Large Scale Integration. 1) A technology that allows the inclusion of
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characteristics by electrically connecting two points of a circuit.
equivalent to 1024, or 2 raised to the 10th power. See also byte
and kilobyte.
manually pressing marked keys. Each keystroke activates a switch
that transmits a specific code to the computer. For each key, the
transmitted code is, in turn, representative of the (ASCII) character
marked on the key.
and megabyte.
when a current is applied.
of glass coated with transparent conducting material. The viewing
side coating is etched into character forming segments with leads
that extend to the edge of the glass. Applying a voltage between
the glass sheets alters the brightness of the liquid crystal.
up to 100,000 simple logic gates on a single chip. 2) An integrated
circuit that uses the large scale integration.
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