Address Bar Horizontal bar with a text box that displays the current location's address typically found at the top of a window of an application that can navigate from one place to another, such as web browsers and file managers.
bpp Bits per pixel: unit of measurement for how many bits are necessary to encode the data of one pixel of an image, e.g. 1bpp, 8bpp, 24bpp, 32bpp.
Hz Abbreviation of Hertz, an unit of measurement for how many times per second a cyclic process is executed.
Hertz An unit of frequency that measures how many times per second a process occurs, for processes that occur in repeating cycles.
Units of Measurement Bits, bytes, pixels, hertz, kilo, mega, giga, tera, kebi, mebi, gibi, tebi, and others.
Graphics Term used to refer to anything graphical related to the computer, including images, videos, 3D models, visualizations, etc.
Graphics Card Another term for GPU, internal hardware part responsible for handling the graphics displayed on the screen of the computer..
GPU Internal hardware part responsible for processing graphics data, e.g. image and video, which is sent to the computer screen.
Memory What is "Memory" in a Computer? The term "memory" has multiple meanings when we talk about computers, some of them refer to hardware while other refer to software, for example: Notable Features In general, memory has a fixed size and is addressable by byte offsets. If you have a piece of memory that is 8 […]
RAM Memory What is RAM memory? RAM memory, or just RAM (Random Access Memory), are physical chips that are installed in your computer's motherboard where data needs to be stored before it can be processed by the CPU. Modern PCs generally have at least 4 gigabytes of RAM. Some operating systems require a minimum of 8 gigabytes. […]
Motherboard The internal computer part where are installed other computer parts, such as the CPU, RAM, GPU, HDDs, SSDs, so on.
File Manager A type of application that can move, rename, copy, delete, and list files and folders in the computer, and navigate through the hierarchy of folders.
File Extension The part of a file's filename after the last dot character (.), e.g. .jpg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .webp, .webm, .txt, .doc, .psd, .avi, .mp4, .mp3, .wav, etc.