Lex Cyberia

Cyber Glossary

Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.

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video memory

the memory found in a video adapter that stores images as bitmaps before they are sent to the display monitor. Because displaying video images requires a great deal of computing speed and memory, the video adapter is equipped to handle this function rather than relying on the computer.s CPU. There are several types of video memory such as VRAM and WRAM.