Format: The organizing and allocation of sectors on a disk adhering to the chosen format standard. Formatting must take place before any data can be written to the disk.

 

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Format: In film, refers to the film width itself and is measured in millimeters (e.g., super-8, 16mm and 35mm). In videotape, the combination of the width of the tape, measured in inches, (e.g., 1/2 . . . View Full Definition

Compacted Information: Information which is generally and widely associated with a product. For example, most published books have an ISBN. As the number of product databases online increases and duplicate content . . . View Full Definition

Graphical Interchange Format (GIF): Pronounced 'jif.' It is an image format created by Compuserve.

Limit Order Information System: The electronic system supplying information about securities traded on participating exchanges so that the best securities prices can be found.

Large Format Camera: General term for any camera having a picture format of 4 x 5 inches or larger.

Information Retrieval: The field of science based on sorting or searching through large data sets to find relevant information.

Privacy (Information): The right to control the disclosure of personal information: often referred to as confidentiality, but more accurately might be called data protection. Many landowners, including farmers, ha . . . View Full Definition

Asymmetric Information: Information that is known to some people but not to other people.

Formation: An arrangement of the offensive skill players. A formation usually is described in terms of how the running backs line up (e.g. I formation, which refers to the half back is lined up about 7 . . . View Full Definition

Fair Information Practices: A set of standards developed in the early 1970s to describe how information should be used and protected: usually stated as eight principles in this country and including openness, individua . . . View Full Definition