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NetBIOS Extended User Interface (NetBEUI): A networking protocol used primarily with Windows NT and suited to small peer-to-peer networks.

Network Basic Input - Output System (NetBIOS): A commonly used networking protocol originally developed for LANs. Operates on the Session and Transport layers of the OSI model, so doesn't make use of physical network characteristics.

New Low-Profile eXtended (NLX): The NLX form factor features a number of improvements over the previous design LPX form factor and began heavy usage in late 1997. The popularity of the design was confirmed by massive desig . . . View Full Definition

Network Interface Card (NIC): An adapter installed in an expansion slot or integrated onto the motherboard and allows the computer to connect to a network.

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI): An interface as well as file format standard for using a musical instrument with a computer and recording and storing the data from it. A MIDI file contains information about recorded notes: . . . View Full Definition

Implant Interface: Tissue to Implant Contact: (a)fibrous integration, interposition of healthy dense collagenous tissue between implant and bone. (b)osseointegration, implies that a contact is established with . . . View Full Definition

Interface: A device or protocol which facilitates the linking of any two devices or systems; or when used as a verb ('to interface'), the process of linking.

Multiuser System: A configuration or computer system in which computer terminals share the same central processing unit. Most commonly seen with super-computers, where several users with terminals can login s . . . View Full Definition

Palouser: A strong, dangerous, katabatic wind that descends from the mountains into the Palouse River valley in northern Idaho and eastern Washington. May be called a Cow-Killer.

Right Of Correlative User: The right of a landowner to the reasonable use of underground percolating water.