186 GlossaryKbps — Kilobit(s) per second.KBps — Kilobyte(s) per second.kg — Kilogram(s); 1000 grams.kHz — Kilohertz.KVM — Keyboard/video/mouse. KVM refers to a switch that allows selection of thesystem from which the video is displayed and for which the keyboard and mouse areused.LAN — Local area network. A LAN is usually confined to the same building or a fewnearby buildings, with all equipment linked by wiring dedicated specifically to theLAN.LCD — Liquid crystal display.LED — Light-emitting diode. An electronic device that lights up when a current ispassed through it.local bus — On a system with local-bus expansion capability, certain peripheraldevices (such as the video adapter circuitry) can be designed to run much faster thanthey would with a traditional expansion bus. See also bus.LOM — LAN on motherboard. Also referred to as embedded NIC.LVD — Low voltage differential.m — Meter(s).mA — Milliampere(s).MAC address — Media Access Control address. Each network device’s uniquehardware number on a network.mAh — Milliampere-hour(s).Mb — Megabit(s); 1,048,576 bits.MB — Megabyte(s); 1,048,576 bytes. However, when referring to hard-drive capacity,the term is often rounded to mean 1,000,000 bytes.Mbps — Megabits per second.MBps — Megabytes per second.MBR — Master boot record.memory address — A specific location, usually expressed as a hexadecimal number, inthe system’s RAM.memory module — A small circuit board containing DRAM chips that connects to thesystem board.memory — An area in your system that stores basic system data. A system can contain
