Computer Graphics
Vocabulary
1. Bit: The
smallest unit of information that a computer can hold.
2. Bitmap:
A set of bits that represents a graphic image. This is one format
for pictures drawn on the computer.
3. Button:
Raise objects in a window that can be “pressed” to perform spcified operations
by clicking on the button.
4. CPU: Central
Processing Unit. The hard drive.
5. Click: To
push down a mouse button to make a selection.
6. Copy:
To take the selected item and copy it to the clipboard for you to paste
somewhere else without removing the material from the original document.
7. Cursor:
the on screen pointer. A vertical line that appears to the right
of the text characters that are typed.
8. Delete:
To erase.
9. Digital Camera:
This is a type of camera that does not use film. Instead, you can
use a disk or connect it to the computer and directly upload the images
to the computer.
10. Double-Click:
This is when you click a mouse button two times fast.
11. Drag/Dragging:
To select something with the mouse, and while holding the mouse button
down, move the mouse to a different location and let go.
12. Edit Menu:
Hold the commands such as Cut, Copy, Paste and select all.
13. Floppy Disk:
A square disk, usually like a 3½" or 5¼" Disk that stores
data.
14. File: The
data stored on disks. All files have a file name.
15. Folder:
a container that holds and separates files and helps sort and organize
data.
16. Font: the style
or design of writing that you type with.
17. Graphics:
electronic art and pictures. A graphic can be a drawing created on
the computer, am image scanned in for digital manipulation, or various
shapes, lines and boxes created with the computer.
18. Hard Drive: A permanent,
non-removable disk that stores data inside the computer.
19. Icon: A
little picture that allows you to easily remember which program you want
to open or what file does what.
20. Keyboard: the
object that looks like a typewriter, containing numbers, letters and symbols
that is used to type instructions to the computer.
21. Memory:
the component of a computer system that can store information for later
retrieval.
22. Menu Bar:
the area at the top of a window that contains a series of pull down menus
such as File and Edit.
23. Monitor:
This is the display device of the computer.
24. Mouse:
The thing you move around with your hand to move the cursor around the
screen. It has buttons for you to select things on the screen.
It's a form of input.
25. Paste:
To take the contents of the clipboard (whatever was last copied) and put
them in the document you are working in.
26. Program:
a set of instructions describing actions for a computer to perform to accomplish
a task. Computer programs are referred to as software.
27. Resolution:
the size and amount of detail of a screen image.
28. Save As:
To store data to disk with a new or different property or name than before
(assuming you saved before). This is usually an option under the File menu
of programs
29. Scroll Bar: This
is a bar that you can move up and down to view different parts of a window.
30. Scroll:
To move a display up and down. You use the scroll bar to scroll up
and down the page.
31. Select: This
is the action of selecting an icon or program or something on the screen.
32. Selection:
This is what you have selected on the screen.
33. Shift key:
Key to use to make a letter capitalized.
34. Shutdown:
If you click START>SHUTDOWN and press OK, your computer will shut off the
correct way it is supposed to be turned off. If you get a message
telling you that it is safe to turn off the computer, go ahead and do it.
35. Software:
the programs that run on the computer. |