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#TechTerm Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft technology used to manage computers and other devices on a network. It is a primary feature of Windows Server, an operating system that runs both local and Internet-based servers.
#TechTerm Apple silicon is a series of Mac processors developed by Apple. For several decades, Apple built Macintosh computers with CPUs from third-party manufacturers, including Motorola, IBM, and Intel.
#TechTerm A sector is the smallest addressable unit of data storage on a disk drive. On traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), sectors were 512 bytes in size. However, modern drives now use 4,096-byte sectors (or "4K sectors"), also known as Advanced Format technology.
#TechTerm Stands for "Virtual Path Identifier." A VPI is an 8- to 12-bit header in an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) cell that identifies the path the cell should take to its destination.
#TechTerm A delimiter is a text character (or a sequence of characters) that separates elements in a text string or data stream. Some delimiters separate an object into multiple pieces of data, while other delimiters establish boundaries around data to provide structure.
#TechTerm Stands for "Computer-Aided Design." CAD is the use of computers to create 2D and 3D designs. Common types of CAD include two-dimensional layout design and three-dimensional modeling.
#TechTerm Compact Flash, often abbreviated CF, is a removable memory card format that uses nonvolatile flash memory. Digital cameras and other handheld electronic devices use CF cards to store and transfer digital photos, video, and other data.
#TechTerm "Carbon Copy." Cc is one of the standard email address fields. It is meant for secondary recipients of a message, while the To field is for its primary recipients.
#TechTerm "JavaScript Object Notation." JSON is a standard text-based data interchange format. It formats data in a way that is both human- and machine-readable. Web applications and web servers use JSON files to transfer data between applications and servers.
#TechTerm "Virtual File Allocation Table." VFAT is an extension to the FAT16 and FAT32 file systems that adds support for long file names. VFAT extends the FAT file systems but does not break backward compatibility.
#TechTerm iOS is a mobile operating system developed by Apple. It currently runs on the iPhone. It previously ran on the now-discontinued iPod Touch; a version also ran on the iPad, which now runs a separate fork called iPadOS.