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62 Glossary

Plastic plugs containing a wire fit down over the pins. The wire connects the pins and

creates a circuit, providing a simple and reversible method of changing the circuitry in

a board.

K — Kilo-; 1000.

Kb — Kilobit(s); 1024 bits.

KB — Kilobyte(s); 1024 bytes.

Kbps — Kilobit(s) per second.

KBps — Kilobyte(s) per second.

kg — Kilogram(s); 1000 grams.

kHz — Kilohertz.

KVM — Keyboard/video/mouse. KVM refers to a switch that allows selection of the

system from which the video is displayed and for which the keyboard and mouse are

used.

LAN — Local area network. A LAN is usually confined to the same building or a few

nearby buildings, with all equipment linked by wiring dedicated specifically to the

LAN.

LCD — Liquid crystal display.

LED — Light-emitting diode. An electronic device that lights up when a current is

passed through it.

LGA — Land grid array.

local bus — On a system with local-bus expansion capability, certain peripheral

devices (such as the video adapter circuitry) can be designed to run much faster than

they would with a traditional expansion bus. See also bus.

LOM — LAN on motherboard.

LVD — Low voltage differential.

m — Meter(s).

mA — Milliampere(s).

MAC address — Media Access Control address. Your system’s unique hardware

number on a network.

mAh — Milliampere-hour(s).

Mb — Megabit(s); 1,048,576 bits.

MB — Megabyte(s); 1,048,576 bytes. However, when referring to hard-drive capacity,

the term is often rounded to mean 1,000,000 bytes.

Mbps — Megabits per second.

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