Author: Onyekachi Ogbu

English (en) Flaming Flaming, also known as roasting, is the act of posting insults, often including profanity or other offensive language, on the internet. The act of posting angry or insulting messages (flames) to an internet newsgroup or other online forums. A flame war is an exchange of such messages. Other languages: Yoruba, Hausa Related...

English (en) Flash Flash is an abbreviation for flash memory. A flash or flashing describes updating a chip's code (firmware). Flash memory is a long-life and non-volatile memory that erases data in units called blocks and rewrites data at the byte level. It can keep stored data and information even when the power is off....

English (en) Floppy disk A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy or a diskette) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that removes dust particles from the...

English (en) Folder A file is the common storage unit in a computer, and all programmes and data are "written" into a file and "read" from a file. A folder holds one or more files, and a folder can be empty until it is filled. A folder can also contain other folders, and there can...

English (en) Format (as a layout) Format or document format is the overall layout of a document or spreadsheet. For example, the formatting of text on many English documents is aligned to the left of a page. With text, a user could change its format to bold to help emphasize text. Other languages: Yoruba, Hausa...

English (en) Format (to erase a hard drive) Format is a command that prepares a blank diskette, hard drive, or another drive to hold data. If the disk or drive already contains information, all information on it would be erased. For example, if you wanted to wipe everything on your hard drive, typing "format C:"...

English (en) Exabytes An extraordinarily large unit of digital data. One Exabyte (EB) is equal to 1,000 Petabytes or one billion gigabytes (GB). Some technologists have estimated that all the words ever spoken by mankind would be equal to five Exabytes. The prefix 'exa' means one billion billion, or one quintillion, which is a decimal...

English (en) Encryption Encryption is the process of protecting information or data whereby information is converted into secret code that hides the information's true meaning. Other languages: Yoruba, Hausa Related terms File encryption, End-to-end encryption, Decryption Igbo (ig) Nzobe Ederede Decomposition: Nzobe is to hide or make secret while Ederede means text. Mkpọchite Decomposition: Mkpọchite...

English (en) End-to-end encryption End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a method of secure communication that prevents third parties from accessing data while it is being transferred from one system or device to another. In E2EE, the data is encrypted on the sender's system or device and can only be decrypted by the intended recipient. Other languages:...

English (en) Enter (the keyboard key) Enter key, elbow arrow or Return key is the keyboard key that is pressed to signal the computer to input the line of data or the command that has just been typed. When typing, the Enter key sends the cursor to the beginning of the next line or executes...