Aligned on the left and right margins, with the last lines of paragraphs flush left. Justified text may have paragraph indents.
justification
Alignment of text on both left and right margins, except for last lines of paragraphs, which are flush left, and paragraph indents if used.
jack
A connector into which a plug is inserted.
jacket
The plastic covering that protects a floppy disk.
jewel box
A plastic container for a CD or CD-ROM disc. Also called jewel case.
Jaz drive
A compact, removable-cartridge disk drive made by Iomega Corporation. A 540MB and a 1GB cartridge are available.
Jobs, Stephen
Cofounder of Apple Computer in 1975, with Steve Wozniak. Apple released the Macintosh computer in 1984, which was a milestone in the personal computer revolution. In 1985 Jobs started NeXT Inc., a company that builds workstations.
job queue
The lineup of jobs to be run.
Joe
A computer account whose password is the user's name. Joe accounts are easy for crackers to break into because the passwords are easy to guess.
jaggies
The jagged edges that appear in graphics on diagonal or curved lines. The stair-step appearance is the result of trying to build a diagonal or curved line out of little squares. One solution is to create the image in a large format and reduce it to the desired size, so the pixels are smaller in relation to the image. Another solution is anti-aliasing, which means putting pixels along the jagged edge which are of an intermediate color between the background and the image. This makes the line look smoother.
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