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Glossary 203
Glossary
The following list defines or identifies technical terms, abbreviations, and
acronyms used in Dell
™ user documents.
A
Abbreviation for ampere(s).
AC
Abbreviation for alternating current.
AC power switch
A switch with two AC power inputs that provides AC power redundancy by failing
over to a standby AC input in the event of a failure to the primary AC input.
Access
Refers to the actions a user can take on a variable value. Examples include read-
only and read-write.
Adapter card
An expansion card that plugs into an expansion-card connector on the computer's
system board. An adapter card adds some specialized function to the computer
by providing an interface between the expansion bus and a peripheral device.
Examples of adapter cards include network cards, sound cards, and SCSI adapters.
ADB
Abbreviation for assign database.
AGP
Abbreviation for accelerated graphics port. A high performance graphics interface
available for Intel
®
Pentium
®
Pro systems.
ASCII
Acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A text file
containing only characters from the ASCII character set (usually created with a
text editor, such as Notepad in Microsoft
®
Windows
®
) is called an ASCII file.