/in-ter-fayss/ In general, a common boundary between two devices, two systems, or two software components. The word is often used to describe the electronic circuitry plus associated software that is required to connect two computer systems or two components of a computer system such as a peripheral device and the central processor. The interface compensates [...]

(interface board) See expansion card.

/in-ter-layss-ing/ 1. A technique for raster scanning in which all odd numbered scan lines are updated in one sweep of the electron beam and all even numbered in the next sweep. This means that the number of lines displayed and the information carried by the display signal are halved. Images produced by interlacing are not [...]

A measure of the correctness of data following processing. For data to have integrity, it should not have been accidentally altered or destroyed during processing by errors arising in the hardware or software of the system. (Neither should it have been deliberately altered or destroyed by an unauthorized person.) System errors do occur from time [...]

/in-tel/ Trademark One of the largest microprocessor manufacturers, Intel Corporation, founded in 1968. Intel developed the 4004, which was the first successful microprocessor, and the 8088 used in the first IBM PC. Earlier designs have now been replaced by Intel’s PENTIUM series of chips.

Describing a device that is controlled in part or totally by one or more integral processors and so does not require every detail of its operation to be specified by the computer.

/in-ter-ak-tiv/ Denoting a device, system, application, etc., in which there is an immediate response by the computer to instructions as they are input by the user. The instructions can be presented by various means – for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a light pen, or a digitizing pad. The response usually occurs sufficiently rapidly that [...]

/in-ter-blok/ (IBG) See block.

Arithmetic involving only INTEGERS. The addition, subtraction, and multiplication of integers always produces an integer as a result. In integer arithmetic, an integer division also always produces an integer result, unlike normal arithmetic. This is achieved by ignoring the remainder. Hence in integer division 7 divided by 2 equals 3 (rather than 3.5). Other examples [...]

See integer arithmetic.