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 4ùexcept 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 dayùexcept 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.
