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disable
— To turn a computer option off. See also
enable
.
disc
— A round, flat piece of metal, designed to be read from and written
to by optical (laser) technology, and used in the production of optical
discs, such as CDs and DVDs. Compare
disk.
disk
— A round, flat piece of material that can be magnetically
influenced to hold information in digital form, and used in the
production of magnetic disks, such as diskettes and hard disks.
Compare
disc.
See also
diskette, hard disk.
disk drive
— The device that reads and writes information and programs
on a diskette or hard disk. It rotates the disk at high speed past one or
more read/write heads.
diskette
— A thin, flexible disk in a protective jacket that stores
magnetically encoded data. Diskettes can be removed from the
computer and come in two sizes: 5.25-inch and 3.5-inch. Your
computer uses 3.5-inch diskettes. See also
double-density diskette,
high-density diskette.
document
— Any file created with an application and, if saved to disk,
given a name by which it can be retrieved. See also
file
.
double-click
— To press the TouchPad control button or mouse button
rapidly twice without moving the cursor or mouse. In the Windows
®
operating system, this refers to the primary TouchPad control button
or left mouse button, unless otherwise stated.
download
— (1) In communications, to receive a file from another
computer through a modem or network. (2) To send font data from
the computer to a printer. See also
upload
.
drag
— To hold down the TouchPad control button or mouse button
while moving the cursor to drag a selected object. In the Windows
®
operating system, this refers to the primary TouchPad control button
or left mouse button, unless otherwise stated.
driver
— See
device driver
.
DVD
— An individual digital versatile (or video) disc. See also
DVD-
ROM
.
