Glossary U
Deutsch: Universal Serial Bus / Español: Universal Serial Bus / Português: Universal Serial Bus / Français: Universal Serial Bus / Italiano: Universal Serial Bus
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that defines the cables, connectors and communications protocols used in a bus for connection, communication, and power supply between computers and electronic devices.
USB was designed to standardize the connection of computer peripherals (including keyboards, pointing devices, digital cameras, printers, portable media players, disk drives and network adapters) to personal computers, both to communicate and to supply electric power. It has become commonplace on other devices, such as smartphones, PDAs and video game consoles. USB has effectively replaced a variety of earlier interfaces, such as serial and parallel ports, as well as separate power chargers for portable devices.
Deutsch: Nutzenfunktion / Español: Utilidad (economía) / Português: Utilidade (economia) / Français: Utilité / Italiano: Utilità (economia)
In economics, utility is a representation of preferences over some set of goods and services. Preferences have a (continuous) utility representation so long as they are transitive, complete, and continuous. Utility is usually applied by economists in such constructs as the indifference curve, which plot the combination of commodities that an individual or a society would accept to maintain a given level of satisfaction.
Underground means under the level of the ground; belowground storage areas; underground caverns.
Deutsch: Unterwäsche / Español: Ropa interior / Português: Roupa íntima / Français: Sous-vêtement / Italiano: Biancheria intima /
Underwear is defined as clothing or an article of clothing worn next to the skin and under other clothing. Boxer shorts, briefs, thongs, bikini, boxer briefs, panties etc.
The acronym UTC may refer to the following:
- Coordinated Universal Time (abbreviated UTC), the primary basis or standard used worldwide in the regulation of clocks and time
The acronym ULD may refer to the following:
- Unit Load Device, a type of pallet or container used to load a large quantity objects onto aircraft
- Ultra Low Delay Audio Coder, a type of audio data compression scheme