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Dell Precision T5400 (Late 2007) User Manual

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Glossary

V — volt — The measurement of electric potential or electromotive force. One V

appears across a resistance of 1 ohm when a current of 1 ampere flows through that

resistance.

W

W — watt — The measurement of electrical power. One W is 1 ampere of current

flowing at 1 volt.
WHr — watt-hour — A unit of measure commonly used to indicate the approximate

capacity of a battery. For example, a 66-WHr battery can supply 66 W of power for 1

hour or 33 W for 2 hours.
wallpaper — The background pattern or picture on the Windows desktop. Change

your wallpaper through the Windows Control Panel. You can also scan in your favorite

picture and make it wallpaper.
WLAN — wireless local area network. A series of interconnected computers that

communicate with each other over the air waves using access points or wireless routers

to provide Internet access.
write-protected — Files or media that cannot be changed. Use write-protection when

you want to protect data from being changed or destroyed. To write-protect a 3.5-inch

floppy disk, slide its write-protect tab to the open position.
WWAN — wireless wide area network. A wireless high-speed data network using

cellular technology and covering a much larger geographic area than WLAN.
WXGA — wide-aspect extended graphics array — A video standard for video cards

and controllers that supports resolutions up to 1280 x 800.

X

XGA — extended graphics array — A video standard for video cards and controllers

that supports resolutions up to 1024 x 768.

Z

ZIF — zero insertion force — A type of socket or connector that allows a computer

chip to be installed or removed with no stress applied to either the chip or its socket.
Zip — A popular data compression format. Files that have been compressed with the

Zip format are called Zip files and usually have a filename extension of .zip. A special

kind of zipped file is a self-extracting file, which has a filename extension of .exe. You

can unzip a self-extracting file by double-clicking it.