line
(1) A hardware circuit connecting two devices.
(2) In programming, a single program statement.
(3) In caches, a single data entry. A cache line can contain data from one or more addresses. Modern PC motherboards, for example, generally have an L2 cache where each line is 32 bytes wide.
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A type of connector found on audio devices to attach a device, such as a microphone, for recording audio. Line-in can be analog or digital. Digital line-in is also called optical line-in.