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DEDICATED TERMINAL [1 record]

Record 1 2001-11-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computers and Calculators
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
DEF

A terminal that is assigned to a specific task or function.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ordinateurs et calculateurs
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
DEF

Terminal qui a été conçu et programmé pour accomplir un certain type de travail.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Computadoras y calculadoras
  • Tratamiento de la información (Informática)
DEF

Terminal especialmente diseñada para recibir datos fuente, en el medio ambiente relacionado con la labor a realizar y capaz de, transmitirlos a, o recibirlos de, un sistema del cual es parte integrante.

OBS

Es preciso mencionar que bien que el Diccionario Enciclopédico de Informática de Héctor G. Tejera ofrezca al ocasión el término "terminal" en femenino, el Diccionario de la Lengua Española de la Real Academia Española, el Collins y el Oxford lo consideran masculino en el campo de la informática.

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