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Glossary: T
- table
- Another name for a flat file, an arrangement of data into rows and columns, in relational database design.
- telecommuting
- The use of personal computers and data communications at home to do work without being physically present at the office.
- Telnet
- An Internet protocol that permits a user to log onto a remote computer on the Net and work on it at long distance.
- template
- A cardboard or plastic pattern sometimes packed with software for placement placing on a keyboard, listing the most common commands in the package.
- teraflop (TFLOP)
- A trillion floating-point computing instructions per second, a measure of the enormous number of operations carried out by the most advanced supercomputers today (tera=trillion).
- text processing
- A field concerned with text-based applications of computers, including indexing, hyphenation, and concordances.
- throughput
- The computer cycle of inputting data, processing it, and outputting the information produced thereby, analogous to the stimulus/response cycle in the body.
- top-down design
- An approach in structured program design that breaks up a general task into a series of more detailed subtasks, which are further divided until no more detail is necessary.
- touch screen
- An input/output device that allows a user to control the computer by touching the screen, which then displays the output.
- transfer
- Programming statements, like the "go-to" in early nonstructured programming languages, that allow program code to be transferred into and out of modules.
- trash can
- An icon common with graphical user interface systems used for getting rid of files. "Emptying the trash" means deleting files stored there.
- Trojan horse
- An unauthorized program hidden inside a legitimate program, usually doing some harm to the computer system while the host program appears to be performing normally.
- True BASIC
- A modern version of the BASIC programming language, re-created by the developers of the original language (Kemeny and Kurtz) along totally structured programming lines.
- Turing machine
- The concept of the computer developed by Alan Turing, which created a theoretical foundation for computing.
- Turing test
- Alan Turing's 1950 description of a dialogue in which a person tries to guess which of two conversations is being conducted with a person and which with a computer. This test has become a standard model used to judge the "intelligence" of many AI applications.
- twisted-pair wire
- Two copper wires twisted together, often used for home telephone lines and for computer connections in a LAN.