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Glossary
acid content
applications
ascent line
ASCII
ash content
attribute
back up
basis weight
baud
The pH, or the acidity/alkalinity of paper. The acid
content is determined by the Technical Association
of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) cold extrac-
tion method.
A software program that performs a specific task
such as creating a spreadsheet or graphics.
The line defined by the tops of the capital letters in
text.
American Standard Code for Information Inter-
change. This standard defines character set codes
that are used for data interchange between data
terminal equipment.
The inorganic residue remaining after ignition used
to remove combustibles and volatile compounds.
Characteristics of a font. These include orientation,
symbol set, spacing, pitch, point size, style, stroke,
and typeface.
To make a spare copy of a disk or file on a disk.
Backing up your disks and files ensures that you
won't lose information if the original is lost or
damaged.
In English units, basis weight is the weight of 500
sheets of standard size paper. It is measured as the
weight (in grams) of one square meter of paper.
The rate of data transmission, measured in bits per
second.
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