newsreader một phần của phần mềm cho phép người dùng đọc các nhóm tin Usenet. Xem nhóm một giao thức chia sẻ tập tin ban đầu được phát triển bởivào giữa những năm 1980 và được sử dụng rộng rãi trên các hệ thống So sánh CIFS. NIB (mô tả các mặt hàng để bán) | 331 non-breaking space FIGURE 178. Newspaper columns newsreader a piece of software that enables the user to read Usenet newsgroups. See NEWSGROUP. NFS Network File System a FILE SHARING protocol originally developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid-1980s and now widely used on UNIXbased systems. Compare CIFS. NIB describing items for sale new in box. nibble a group of 4 bits or half of 1 byte. NIC Network Interface Card the circuit board inside a computer that connects it to a local-area network. nicad NiCd nickel-cadmium a type of rechargeable battery formerly used in laptop computers. Nickel-cadmium batteries are toxic and should not be discarded in ordinary trash. See also LI-ION NIMH ROHS. Nigerian scam see 419 SCAM. NiMH Nickel-Metal Hydride a type of rechargeable battery electrically similar to nickel-cadmium NICAD but having greater capacity. See also LI-ION. nm see NANOMETER. node 1. an individual computer or occasionally another type of machine in a network. 2. a connection point in a data structure such as a linked list or tree. 3. draw programs a point on a curve or line that helps define the shape of the line. See CUSP NODE SMOOTH NODE SPLINE. non-breaking hyphen a hyphen that does not indicate a place where a word can be broken apart. For instance if the hyphenated word flipflop falls at the end of the line then flip- can appear on one line with flop at the beginning of the next. But if you type flip-flop with a required hyphen it will not be split up. In Microsoft Word to type a nonbreaking hyphen press Ctrl-Shift and the hyphen key together. non-breaking space a space that does not denote a place where words can be split apart at the end of a line. For instance you might not want a person s initials as in T S. Eliot to be split at the end of a line. You should non-volatile 332 therefore use required spaces between them rather than ordinary spaces. In TgX a required space is typed as tilde . In Microsoft Word a nonbreaking space is typed by pressing .
