Glossary
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K
kkilo—the standard metric prefix for 1,000, or 103, used with units of
measure such as volts,hertz ,and m eters
Kkilo—the prefixfor 1,024, or 210,used with B in quan tifying data or
computermemory
kbytes/s au nit for data transfer that means 1,000 or 103bytes/s
kS 1,000 samples
Kword 1,024words of memory
L
LabVIEW laboratoryvirtual instrument engineering workbench
latched digitalI/O atype of digital acquisition/generation where a device or module accepts
ortransfers data after a digital pulse has been received. Also called
handshaked digital I/O
LED light-emitting diode
low-frequencycorner inan AC-coupled circuit, the frequency below which signals are attenuated
byat least 3 dB
LSB least significant bit
M
m meters
M (1) Mega, the standard metric prefix for 1 million or 106,whenusedwith
unitsof measure such as volts and hertz; (2) mega, the prefix for 1,048,576,
or 220, when used with B to quantify data or computer memory
MB megabytesof memory
Mbytes/s au nit for data transfer that means 1 million or 106bytes/s
memory buffer seebuffer