CIW IBA Lesson 5 Vocabulary

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Audio file format used by Unix servers, the majority of Web servers

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.au

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A high-quality audio format developed by Apple Computer.

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.aiff

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The standard windows file format for video files.

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.avi

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A compression/decompression algorithm used by modern video and audio player plug-ins.

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codec

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A storage space on a computer hard disk used to temporarily store downloaded data.

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disk cache

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File format used for importing and exporting graphics.

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.eps

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A graphical image file format commonly used in HTML documents.

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Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

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A graphical image file format commonly used for photographs.

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.jpeg

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A type of data file compression in which all original data can be recovered when the file is decompressed.

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lossless

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A type of data file compression in which some file information is permanently eliminated.

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lossy