Glossary

A small glossary of terms used in this article.

Bijlee

Denotes electricity in the north Indian language of Hindi.

Crore

An Indian name for ten million (10,000,000)..

See Also: Lakh.

Design Axes

Important characteristics of the space of possible designs.

DTP

Desktop Publishing. Graphic creation and typesetting on a computer.

Glyph

A basic visual element in a font.

ISCII

Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange. An Indian standard for character encoding.

Lakh

The Indian name for a hundred thousand (100,000).

See Also: Crore.

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display. A low power display technology common used in portable computing devices.

Linux

A popular open source operating system component, originally created by the Finnish programmer, Linus Torvalds. There are today a few hundred operating systems that are build around Linux.

Open Source

Software whose programming instructions are available for perusal, copying, and personal modification.

Unicode

A universal character encoding standard proposed by the Unicode Consortium.

Untouchables

The social underclass of Indian society. Untouchables (also known as Dalits) make up approximately one-fifth of the Indian population.

UPS

Uninterruptible Power Supply. A power supply conditioning device that provides battery-backed power for a short duration when the grid power fails.