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Computer science

The science of computers and programming.

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earphone

Computer; Computer science

A sound receiver that fits in or over the ear, as of a radio or telephone.

one-pass encoding

Computer; Computer science

An encoding method in which content is analyzed and compressed in the same pass through the encoder.

base 64 encoding

Computer; Computer science

A binary-to-text encoding scheme whereby an arbitrary sequence of bytes is converted to a sequence of printable ASCII characters.

character encoding

Computer; Computer science

A one-to-one mapping between a set of characters and a set of numbers.

storage

Computer; Computer science

The retention of retrievable data on a computer or other electronic system; memory.

configuration

Computer; Computer science

In communications or computer systems, a configuration is an arrangement of functional units according to their nature, number, and chief characteristics.

powerpoint

Computer; Computer science

A commercial presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office suite, and runs on Microsoft Window sand Apple's Mac OS X operating system. 

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