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COMPUTING ACRONYMS & TERMS' SMORGASBORD
Copyright © 1994-2003, Daniel Frankl, Ph.D. |
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Q | Q element; Wibbur's logical information marking element in HTML [HyperText Markup Language] | |||||||||
QBColor | Quick Basic Color value (VB [Visual Basic]) | |||||||||
QBE | Query By Example (Application feature that allows the user to locate a specific letter, word, HTML tag, etc.) | |||||||||
QBIC | Query By Image Content technology (Application feature that allows the user to locate a range of records based on shape, color or texture). | |||||||||
QC |
Quantum Computer (Computer technology uses a series of on/off switches or
bits. A quantum computer is made up of quantum on/off switches or qubits. Thus, a
quantum computer can do an arbitrary reversible classical computation on all the numbers
simultaneously, and also has some ability to produce interference, constructive or
destructive, between various different numbers. The problem with QCs technology is the
loss of quantum coherence. By using a quantum error-correcting code data may be
protected even when the individual qubits in the computer decohere. Source:
Daniel Gottesman.
QL
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Quality Letter (Term describing typewriter quality letter printing by
a printer).
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QT
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Quick Time (Mac & PC video format)
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Quoting
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A copy of the original e-mail message that appears on top of a return e-mail (each
line starts with a > [greater than] character)
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Quotes (PC)
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| "Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all" John F. Kennedy. "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." Wernher von Braun.
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Page updated: Jan. 05, 2003 |