Toshiba U600D User Manual

User ’s Manual

Glossary-13

Glossary

terminal: A typewriter-like keyboard and CRT display screen connected to the 

computer for data input/output.

TFT display: A liquid crystal display (LCD) made from an array of liquid crystal 

cells using active-matrix technology with thin film transistor (TFT) to drive each 
cell.

Touch Pad: A pointing device integrated into the TOSHIBA computer palm rest.

USB: Universal Serial Bus. This serial interface lets you communicate with several 

devices connected in a chain to a single port on the computer.

VGA: Video Graphics Array is an industry standard video adaptor that lets you run 

any popular software.

volatile memory: Random access memory (RAM) that stores information as long 

as power is supplied to the computer.

warm start: Restarting or resetting a computer without turning it off.
Wi-Fi

: A registered trademark term of the Wi-Fi Alliance that stands for Wireless 

Fidelity, and is another term for the communication protocol to permit an 
Ethernet connection using wireless communication components.

window: A portion of the screen that can display its own application, document or 

dialog box. Often used to mean a Microsoft Windows window.

Wireless LAN: Local Area Network (LAN) through wireless communication.
Wireless WAN: Wide Area Network (WAN) through wireless communication.
write protection: A method for protecting a floppy diskette from accidental 

erasure.