glossary of internet terms - z

A COMPLETE LIST OF DEFINITIONS OF THE TERMS USED THROUGHOUT OUR WEBSITE

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Zip drive - A high-capacity disk drive designed by Iomega capable of storing 100 or 250Mb of information on sturdy pocket-sized disks. These can be used for back-up, as extra storage or to transfer files between machines or users. Zip drives can be built into your PC or connected externally, using a USB, parallel or SCSI link.

ZIP file - A file or files that have been compressed using a program like PKZip or WinZip to save disk space or to make them quicker to email. Bitmap image files compress particularly well.

Zipping - Compressing a file using a program such as PKZip or WinZip to reduce the space it takes up. Unzipping is the process of decompressing the file to its original form.

Zone - In OCR software, a scanned area which is designated as containing a particular type of information, either image or text. Examples include a picture caption or a column of text.

Zoom - In image-editing, the tool, normally shown as a magnifying glass, which lets you enlarge an area of the picture so you can see finer detail and work on it more easily.

Z-wave - An emerging wireless standard.
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