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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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thermal paste Paste-like material with very high heat-transfer properties.

Applied between the CPU and the cooling device, it ensures the best possible

dispersal of heat from the CPU. Also called heat dope or thermal compound.

thermal printer Printer that uses heated printheads to create high-quality

images on special or plain paper. Common in retail receipt printers, which

use large rolls of thermal paper housed in a feed assembly that automatically

draws the thermal receipt paper over the heating element.

thick client CompTIA’s name for a standard desktop computer. Runs a

modern operating system and general productivity applications to accomplish

the vast majority of tasks needed by office and home users. It does not need a

network connection to run and it meets the recommended requirements for its

OS.

thin client A system designed to store only very basic applications with an

absolute minimum amount of hardware required by the operating system.

Relies on resources from servers and thus needs a network connection. Meets

minimum requirements for selected OS.

thin provisioning Creating a Storage Space that reports a size greater than

the actual capacity installed in the computer, with the ability to later add more

physical capacity up to the reported size.

thread Smallest logical division of a single program.

throttling Power reduction/thermal control capability allowing CPUs to

slow down during low activity or high heat build-up situations. Intel’s

version is known as SpeedStep, AMD’s as PowerNow!.

throw Size of the image a projector displays at a certain distance from the

screen. Alternately, what you do with a computer that you just can’t seem to

get working.

Thunderbolt An open standards connector interface that is primarily used

to connect peripherals to devices, including mobile devices, if they have a

corresponding port.

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