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Glossary
K
k kilo—the standard metric prefix for 1,000, or 10
3
, used with units of
measure such as volts, hertz, and meters
K kilo—the prefix for 1,024, or 2
10
, used with B in quantifying data or
computer memory
kbytes/s a unit for data transfer that means 1,000 or 10
3
bytes/s
Kword 1,024 words of memory
L
LabVIEW laboratory virtual instrument engineering workbench
latched digital I/O a type of digital acquisition/generation where a device or module accepts
or transfers data after a digital pulse has been received. Also called
handshaked digital I/O.
LED light-emitting diode
library a file containing compiled object modules, each comprised of one of more
functions, that can be linked to other object modules that make use of these
functions. NIDAQMSC.LIB is a library that contains NI-DAQ functions.
The NI-DAQ function set is broken down into object modules so that only
the object modules that are relevant to your application are linked in, while
those object modules that are not relevant are not linked.
LSB least significant bit
M
m meters
M (1) Mega, the standard metric prefix for 1 million or 10
6
, when used with
units of measure such as volts and hertz; (2) mega, the prefix for 1,048,576,
or 2
20
, when used with B to quantify data or computer memory
MB megabytes of memory
MBLT eight-byte block transfers in which both the Address bus and the Data bus
are used to transfer data