Desktop PC

Desktop PC

Any personal computing system that is small enough to be used at a desk.

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character device

Computer; Desktop PC

1、A computer device, such as a keyboard or printer,that receives or transmits information as a stream of characters, one character at a time. The characters can betransferred either bit by bit ...

character printer

Computer; Desktop PC

1、A printer that operates by printing one characterat a time, such as a standard dot-matrix printer. Compare line printer, page printer. 2、A printer that cannot print graphics. Such a printer ...

The process of applying pattern-matching methods to character shapes that have been read into a computer todetermine which alphanumeric characters or punctuation marks the shapes represent. Because ...

character set

Computer; Desktop PC

A grouping of alphabetic, numeric, and other characters that have somerelationship in common. For example, the standard ASCII character set includes letters, numbers, symbols, andcontrol codes that ...

characters per inch

Computer; Desktop PC

A measurement for the number of characters of a particular size and font that can fit into a line one inch long. This number is affected by the type抯 point size and the width of the letters in the ...

characters per second n.

Computer; Desktop PC

1、A measure of the speed of a nonlaser printer, such as a dot-matrixor an ink-jet printer. 2、A measure of the rate at which a device, such as a disk drive, cantransfer data. In serial communications, ...

character string

Computer; Desktop PC

A set of characters treated as a unit and interpreted by a computeras text rather than numbers. A character string can contain any sequence of elements from a given character set,such as letters, ...