interblock gap
Same as interrecord gap.
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An electrical or optical connection or cable that connects two separate devices. For example, the cable that connects your monitor or hard drive to the computer system is called an interconnect. A standard computer system will contain multiple interconnects.
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A buzzword that is used to describe any mobile phone that has the potential to be a threat to the Apple iPhone consumer market dominance. The Android platform is often referred to as an “iPhone Killer”.
- interlaced scan
Interlaced scan is one of two methods used for “painting” an image on a television screen (the other being progressive scan). Designed for the analog NTSC television system, interlaced scanning uses two fields to create a frame. One field contains all the odd lines in the image, the other contains all the even lines of […]
- interleaved memory
Main memory divided into two or more sections. The CPU can access alternate sections immediately, without waiting for memory to catch up (through wait states). Interleaved memory is one technique for compensating for the relatively slow speed of dynamic RAM (DRAM). Other techniques include page-mode memory and memory caches.
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)To arrange data in a noncontiguous way to increase performance. When used to describe disk drives, it refers to the way sectors on a disk are organized. In one-to-one interleaving, the sectors are placed sequentially around each track. In two-to-one interleaving, sectors are staggered so that consecutively numbered sectors are separated by an intervening sector. […]