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graphics
Pictures or
illustrations, including drawings,
pie charts, bar graphs, street
maps, architectural and
engineering designs, fashion
designs, musical scores,
cartoons, animated images, and
photographs. A graphics card
enables the monitor to display
these items on the screen.
See also SVGA and XGA.
H
hard disk
Internal storage
media for permanent storage of
system files, software, and data
files. The hard disk consists of
flat, round platters. Each side of
each platter has a head that
floats on a thin cushion of air
over the surface of the rapidly
spinning disk and picks up
(reads) magnetically stored data
or records (writes) data onto
the disk.
hard drive
The drive that reads
and writes to the hard disk. If
you have a large hard drive, it
may be divided into several
partitions. Each partition is
designated by a different icon
and a drive letter, beginning,
with the letter C. Partition C:
contains the files the computer
uses to start up. The other
partitions contain no
preinstalled files.
hardware
The physical
components of a computer—the
parts you can physically touch.
See also software.
HTML
The standard language
for documents designed for
viewing on the Internet with a
browser. Tags embedded in the
documents mark the location of
other electronic files—including
text, graphics, audio, and video
files. Click on the links
to jump from one document to
another. Documents formatted
for a browser can be identified
by the file extension .htm or
.html. See also hyperlink.