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Computer Terms Beginning with "Z"

Zebibyte A zebibyte is a unit of data storage that equals 2 to the 70th power, or 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes. While...
Zero Day Exploit A zero day exploit is a malicious computer attack that takes advantage of a security hole before the vulnerability is...
Zettabyte A zettabyte is 2 to the 70th power, or 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 bytes. It can be estimated as 10 to the 21st...
ZIF Stands for "Zero Insertion Force." ZIF is a type of CPU socket on a computer motherboard that allows for the simple...
Zip Windows users will see this term a lot when looking for files on the Internet. A zip file (.zip) is a "zipped" or...
Zone File A zone file is stored on a name server and provides information about one or more domain names. Each zone file...

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