Keywords Bank

F

FOSS

the acronym for Free and Open Source Software, software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction

G

gamut (gamut)

a certain complete subset of colours

general solution

a general solution of a differential equation is the set of all of its particular solutions, often expressed using constants, which could have any fixed value

Gnome

one of the biggest window managers for Linux

GNU

a computer operating system composed entirely of free software, initiated in 1984 by Richard Stallman

Google

an American public corporation whose domain is open-source software and whose earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, webbased e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking and video sharing activities.

GPL

a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project

GUI (Graphical User Interface)

a type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer and computer-controlled devices

H

hacktivism

combination of words: “hack(er)” and “activism”

hardware

all the physical parts of a computer

heterogenous

consisting of various parts that are different from each other

heuristic hypothesis (hipoteza heurystyczna)

a hypothesis that has a very high probability of being true on the basis of reasoning and past experience

homogeneous linear differential equation

a differential equation is said to be homogeneous if there is no isolated constant term in the equation, e.g., each term in a differential equation for y has y or some derivative of y in each term

I

identity map

a database access design pattern used to improve performance by providing a context-specific in-memory cache to prevent duplicate retrieval of the same object data from the database

incoherent

confused and inconsistent; illogical