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Font size is measured in units called ____________________.

The phrase ____ describes approaches to increasing processing and other computer system power by using larger and more powerful computers.

Primary storage devices must closely match CPU speed and word size to avoid ____________________.

Magnetic disk media are flat, circular ____________________ with metallic coatings that are rotated beneath read/write heads.

A ratio of the dose of a drug that is toxic to humans versus the minimum effective dose for that pathogen is assessed to predict the potential for toxic drug reactions. This is called the_________.

Most compression algorithms have a corresponding ____________________ algorithm that restores compressed data to its original or nearly original state.

A ratio of the dose of a drug that is toxic to humans versus the minimum effective dose for that pathogen is assessed to predict the potential for toxic drug reactions. This is called the_________.

A ____ storage device stores and retrieves data items in a linear, or sequential, order.

If the CPU is idle while a device completes an access request, the CPU cycles that could have been (but weren’t) devoted to instruction execution are called ____.

​In a magneto-optical drive, the laser polarity shift used in reading is known as the “____________________ effect.”