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 300-28 . (cont'd) ;CASSETTE:A small, self-contained volume of magnetic tape used for data storage. Similar to a sound­ recording cassette.
 * CHIP:In microcircuitry, a single device, either a transistor or a diode, that has been cut from a larger wafer of sili­con.
 * COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language):A high-level language developed in the early 1960's and used primarily for business applications.
 * CODE:Can be used as verb or noun. As a noun, it can apply to (1) the data, meaning the series of bits used to represent the characters, or (2) the programs, meaning the computer instruc­tions as written in the programming language. As a verb, it means creating the coded data or programs.
 * CODING:The act of actually writing program state­ments.
 * COMPILE:To prepare a machine language program from a computer program written in another programming language by making use

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