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An optical disc technology with a 4.7 gigabyte storage capacity on a single-sided, one-layered disk, which is enough for a 133-minute movie. DVDs can be single- or double-sided, and can have two layers on each side.
A digital enhancement of the Video Home System (VHS) videocassette recording (VCR). D-VHS allows for the recording and reproduction of up to four hours of digital high-definition television (HDTV) programming at 720 or 1080 lines per frame.
Digital wallet
A software application, usually for a smart phone, that serves as an electronic version of a physical wallet.
Digital-Advanced Mobile Phone Service (D-AMPS)
A digital version of AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service). D-AMPS adds time division multiple access (TDMA) to AMPS to get three channels for each AMPS channel, tripling the number of calls that can be handled on a channel.
A digital enhancement of the Video Home System (VHS) videocassette recording (VCR) technology that was developed by Japan Victor Company (JVC) in 1976. D-VHS is a joint effort among JVC, Hitachi, Matsushita, and Sony.
A specialized form of slivercasting in which video or multimedia content is displayed in public places for informational or advertising purposes. A digital sign usually consists of a computer or playback device connected to an LCD or plasma display.
An electronic signature that can be used to authenticate the identity of the sender of a message or the signer of a document, and possibly to ensure that the original content of the message or document that has been sent is unchanged.
The process of converting information into a digital format . Information is organized into discrete units of data (bits) that can be separately addressed. This is the binary data that computers and many devices with computing capacity can process.
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Digizine
A magazine that is delivered in digital (electronic form) on an electronic medium, such as a CD-ROM. A digizine can be stand-alone or used as a supplement to printed information or information on a Web site.
Dimension modeling
Dimensional modeling (DM) is the name of a set of techniques and concepts used in data warehouse design. It is considered to be different from entity-relationship modeling (ER).
Dimension table
A table in a star schema of a data warehouse. A dimension table stores attributes, or dimensions, that describe the objects in a fact table. In data warehousing, a dimension is a collection of reference information about a measurable event.
Direct access
The ability to obtain data from a storage device by going directly to where it is physically located on the device rather than by having to sequentially look for the data at one physical location after another.
Direct Access File System (DAFS)
A network file system, similar to NFS and CIFS, that allows applications to transfer data while bypassing operating system control, buffering, and network protocol operations that can bottleneck throughput.