User's Manual
Glossary - 4 MC18 Product Reference Guide
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Gifted Batteries. A battery with advanced features such as: advanced state of battery health, more accurate state of
charge, elapsed time since first use by customer, time to fully charge, time to fully discharge, estimate of capacity if
battery were fully charged and operated under present load conditions and temperature.
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Hard Reset. See Cold Boot.
Hz. Hertz; A unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second.
Host Computer. A computer that serves other mobile computers in a network, providing such services as computation,
database access, supervisory programs and network control.
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IEC. International Electrotechnical Commission. This international agency regulates laser safety by specifying various
laser operation classes based on power output during operation.
IEEE Address. See MAC Address.
Internet Protocol Address. See IP.
Input/Output Ports. I/O ports are primarily dedicated to passing information into or out of the MC18’s memory.
IP. (Internet Protocol) The IP part of the TCP/IP communications protocol. IP implements the network layer (layer 3) of
the protocol, which contains a network address and is used to route a message to a different network or subnetwork.
IP accepts “packets” from the layer 4 transport protocol (TCP or UDP), adds its own header to it and delivers a
“datagram” to the layer 2 data link protocol. It may also break the packet into fragments to support the maximum
transmission unit (MTU) of the network.
IP Address. (Internet Protocol address) The address of a computer attached to an IP network. Every client and server
station must have a unique IP address. A 32-bit address used by a computer on a IP network. Client workstations
have either a permanent address or one that is dynamically assigned to them each session. IP addresses are written
as four sets of numbers separated by periods; for example, 204.171.64.2.
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Key. A key is the specific code used by the algorithm to encrypt or decrypt the data. Also see, Encryption and
Decrypting.