RI 8.7 - Information and Mediums Vocabulary

What is the definition of evaluate?

• To judge the value or condition of (someone or something) in a careful and thoughtful way
• To program a system carefully
• To ignore or avoid someone or something
• To cite different sources 

What is the definition of advantage?

• Any state, circumstance, opportunity, or means specially favorable to success, interest, or any desired end
• Any small hanging or loosely attached part or piece
• Moving or able to move
• Of much or great significance or consequence

What is the definition of disadvantage?

• The state or an instance of being in an unfavorable circumstance or condition
• Not paying enough attention to what one does
• Of an extreme or excessive degree
• Characterized by lack of speed

What is the definition of medium?

• One of the means or channels of general communication, information, or entertainment in society, as newspapers, radio, or television.
• The elements of the natural world, as mountains, trees, animals, or rivers
• To get up after falling or being thrown down
• A middle state or condition

What is the definition of digital?

• Available in electronic form; readable and manipulable by computer
• Weary or bored
• Musical work or compositions for singing or playing
• Of or relating to a mechanism that represents data by measurement of a continuous physical variable, as voltage or pressure

What is the definition of multimedia?

• The combined use of several media, as sound and full-motion video in computer applications
• A diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc

What is the definition of particular? 

• Of or relating to a single or specific person, thing, group, class, occasion, etc., rather than to others or all; special rather than general
• Averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent
• To make unclear or indistinct
• To omit or neglect unintentionally