laptop
A small, portable personal
computer that runs on either batteries or AC power, designed
for use during travel. Laptops have flat screens and small
keyboards, though most have connectors for plugging in
external keyboards and full-sized monitors.
Laptops
generally run the same software as their desktop counterparts
and can accept similar peripherals, such as sound cards,
internal or external modems, floppy disks and CD-ROM drives.
While notebook is the current term for an ultralight
portable computer, a notebook is also commonly referred to as
a laptop.
leap
year
A year that has 366 days instead of the
standard 365. The extra day occurs on February
29th. A leap year occurs whenever the year is
evenly divisible by 4-except for those years evenly divisible
by 100; this exception, however, does not apply to years
evenly divisible by 400.
In other words, every four years
(e.g., 1988, 1992, 1996, etc.) February gets an extra
day-except on the century year, when the extra day is
not added to February, with a further exception that
every four centuries, when the year is evenly divisible
by 400, the extra day is added. Because the year 2000 is
evenly divisible by 400, it is a leap year.
legacy
Of or pertaining to documents
or data that existed prior to a certain time. The designation
refers particularly to a change in process or technique that
requires translating old data files to a new computer system.
library
In programming, a collection
of programming routines stored in files. Each set of
instructions in a library has a name and each performs a
different task.
localized
Translated and adapted to
another region's language. This can include additions, such as
the calendar system that is used only with that language.
