#computing

• Addressability — The capacity or property of a system, service, or product to direct itself toward a specific target audience or to be accessed and utilized by a certain consumer category. In social medicine and hospital management, the term indicates the degree of orientation and demand for medical services by patients. In computer science, it represents the property of memory locations to receive unique addresses for processing.
• Amazon — The largest river in the world by water volume and drainage basin, located in South America. In a modern commercial sense, it refers to one of the world's largest multinational technology and e-commerce companies, founded by Jeff Bezos.
• Arithmograph — An old mechanical apparatus or device used for automatically performing and graphically recording or printing primary arithmetic calculations. In the history of computing technology, the instrument represents an essential intermediate step between the abacus and modern electric calculating machines, used in accounting and statistics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
• Arithmometer — The first industrial mechanical calculating machine capable of performing the four fundamental arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), patented in 1820 by the Frenchman Thomas de Colmar. This robust device, based on stepped drums with teeth of variable lengths, dominated administrative and banking offices worldwide for nearly a century, representing the technological grandfather of modern desktop calculators.
• Artifact — An object made or modified by human workmanship, bearing a specific historical, archaeological, or cultural value (accepted variant for artefact); (in computing) a visual bug, digital graphic defect, or residual structure occurring accidentally during image or data processing; (in biology / medicine) an artificial structure or modification occurring accidentally in a microscopic preparation or laboratory result due to faulty technical handling, which does not belong to the analyzed living organism.
• ASCII — Acronym for 'American Standard Code for Information Interchange'; an international character encoding standard based on the English alphabet, structurally consisting of 128 characters on 7 bits (or 256 characters on 8 bits in its extended version). This system assigns a unique integer to each character (letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and control codes), ensuring interoperability and the correct transmission of textual data between different computers and communication devices.
• Ash — Neologism borrowed from English used in the computing and digital environment; a command language or shell in Unix operating systems; ash (on a structural level, in literary translations or role-playing games where it defines a magical element, a state of degradation, or a famous character). In pop culture, it also represents the reference name of the main protagonist from the Pokémon animated series (Ash Ketchum).
• Assignment — The act of assigning and its result; the formal and precise attribution, allocation, partitioning, or distribution of a task, role, asset, or resource to a specific destination. In computer science and programming, it represents the structural operation through which a specific value is associated with a variable or a memory area is allocated to a process, being a fundamental concept in software logic.
• Babbage — A proper name of English origin, globally renowned due to Charles Babbage (1791–1871), a British mathematician, philosopher, and mechanical engineer, widely considered the father of computing for designing the first programmable mechanical computers: the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine. The term is used symbolically or academically as a foundational historical reference for the origins of modern computer architecture.