Desktop PC

Desktop PC

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

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String

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A data structure composed of a sequence of characters usually representing human-readable text.

Stroke weight

Computer; Desktop PC

The width, or thickness, of the lines (strokes) that make up a character.

Drive letter

Computer; Desktop PC

The naming convention for disc drives on IBM and compatible computers. Drives are named by letter, beginning with A, followed by a colon.

Updates, patches,and new drivers for a software product that are released one at a time, as they become available, rather than beingissued together in a new version of the product. A company using ...

Drill down

Computer; Desktop PC

To start at a top-level or general menu, directory, or Web page and pass through several intermediate menus,directories, or linked pages, until the specific file, page, menu command, or other item ...

Drive bay

Computer; Desktop PC

A hollow, rectangular area in a computer chassis designed to hold a disc drive. The side walls of a drive bay generally contain holes to facilitate installation of a disc drive. Some drive bays, such ...

Drawing programme

Computer; Desktop PC

A programme for manipulating object-oriented graphics, as opposed to manipulating pixel images. In a drawing program, for example, the user can manipulate an element, such as a line or a circle, as ...