Ambient temperature
The temperature of air or other media in a designated area, particularly the area that is surrounding
equipment.
AME
Application Managed Encryption.
ampere (A)
A unit of measure for electric current that is equivalent to a flow of 1 coulomb per second, or to the
current produced by 1 volt applied across a resistance of 1 ohm.
ANSI
American National Standards Institute.
API
Application planning interface. A set of clearly dened methods of communication between various
software components.
Application-managed encryption
Tape encryption that is controlled by an application.
Archive
To collect and store les in a designated place.
ASCII
American National Standard Code for Information Interchange. A 7 bit coded character set (8 bits
including parity check) that consists of control characters and graphic characters.
Assigning a device
The establishing of the relationship of a device to a running task, process, job, or program.
Assignment
The naming of a specic device to complete a function.
Asynchronous
Pertaining to two or more processes that do not depend upon the occurrence of specic events such
as common timing signals.
Attention (notice)
A word for calling attention to the possibility of danger to a program, device, or system, or to data.
Contrast with caution and danger.
ATTN
Attention.
Authentication Header (AH)
A member of the IPSec protocol suite. AH guarantees connectionless integrity and data origin
authentication of IP packets.
B
Backup
To make extra copies of documents or software for safekeeping.
Bar code
A code that represents characters by sets of parallel bars of varying thickness and separation, which
are read optically by transverse scanning.
Bar code label
Paper bearing a bar code and having an adhesive backing. The bar code label must be afxed to a tape
cartridge to enable the library to identify the cartridge and its volume serial number.
Bar code reader
A laser device that is specialized for scanning and reading bar codes and converting them into either
the ASCII or EBCDIC digital character code.
Bezel
Decorative and safety cover.
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