A work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a piece of writing or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark, etc.

• Creative Commons

• Digital Data

• Intellectual Property

• Sampling

A contraction of "Binary Digit"; the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1

• Digital Data

• Byte

• Binary

• Bit

A process for reducing the number of bits needed to represent something without losing any information. This process is reversible.

• Lossless Compression

• Sampling

• Lossy Compression

• Overflow Error

Error from attempting to represent a number that is too large.

• Round-off Error

• Sampling

• Overflow Error

• Analog Data

A way of representing information using only two options.

• Byte

• Binary

• Bit

• Lossy Compression

Data with values that change continuously, or smoothly, over time. Some examples include music, colors of a painting, or position of a sprinter during a race.

• Digital Data

• Lossy Compression

• Byte

• Analog Data

A process for reducing the number of bits needed to represent something in which some information is lost or thrown away. This process is not reversible

• Lossless Compression

• Sampling

• Lossy Compression

• Analog Data

Data that changes discretely through a finite set of possible values

• Digital Data

• Analog Data

• Sampling

• Lossless Compression

A collection of public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work, used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that they have created

• Intellectual Property

• Sampling

• Digital Data

• Creative Commons

Error from attempting to represent a number that is too precise.

• Round-off Error

• Overflow Error

• Analog Data

• Lossless Compression