What is meant by computer terms USB and URL?

Answer 1

universal serial bus
universal resource locator

Answer 2

Universal Serial Bus. USB is a "plug and play" interface between a computer and add-on devices such camera and microphone. With USB, a device can be added to your computer without having to turn the computer off. USB supports a data speed of 12 megabit per second. This speed will accommodate MPEG video cameras.


Universal Serial Bus. An external bus standard that supports data transfer rates of 12 Mbps. A single USB port can be used to connect up to 127 peripheral devices, such as mice, modems, and keyboards. USB also supports Plug-and-Play installation and hot plugging. Starting in 1996, a few computer manufacturers started including USB support in their new machines. It wasn’t until the release of the best-selling iMac in 1998 that USB became widespread. ...
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Uniform Resource Locator, an HTTP address used by the World Wide Web to specify a certain site. This is the unique identifier, or address, of a web page on the internet. URL can be pronounced "you-are-ell" or "earl." It is how web pages, ftp's, gophers, newsgroups and even some email boxes are located.


The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) provides a way of uniquely specifying the address of any document on the Internet. This is the lynchpin of WWW's embedded linking. The typical URL specifies the method used to access the resource (the protocol), the name of the host computer on which it is located, and the path of the resource,


Short for Uniform Resource Locator. A string of characters used to uniquely identify a page of information on the WWW. This information is used by browser software to find other WWW, FTP, telnet, gopher, etc. sites on the Internet.
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Universal Resource Locator. An address that can specify any Internet resource uniquely. The beginning of the address indicates the type of resource: http: for Web pages, ftp: for file transfers or mailto: for e-mail addresses.
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Answer 3

USB stands for Universal Serial Bus, which is a hardware standard used in computers (not in software). The USB acts as an interface between various devices of the computer (for example, the hard disk drive and the printer).

URL or Uniform Resource Locator is the web address that points to a 'resource' (a web page, a file or an image file on the web) on the Internet. When you type http://www.yahoo.com, you are typing the URL to the Yahoo website.

Answer 4

USB= Universal Serial Bus

Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a serial bus standard to interface devices. It was designed for computers such as PCs and the Apple Macintosh, but its popularity has prompted it to also become commonplace on video game consoles, PDAs, cellphones; and even devices such as televisions and home stereo equipment, and portable memory devices

URL= Uniform Resource Locator

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a string of characters conforming to a standardized format, which refers to a resource on the Internet (such as a document or an image) by its location

An HTTP URL, commonly called a web address, is usually shown in the address bar of a web browser.

Answer 5

USB-Universal Serial Bus
Short for Universal Serial Bus, an external bus standard that supports data transfer rates of 12 Mbps. A single USB port can be used to connect up to 127 peripheral devices, such as mice, modems, and keyboards. USB also supports Plug-and-Play installation and hot plugging.

URL-Uniform Resource Locator
An Internet address (for example, http://www.hmco.com/trade/), usually consisting of the access protocol (http), the domain name (www.hmco.com), and optionally the path to a file or resource residing on that server (trade).

Answer 6

The USB is a type of plug in the back of your pc, that cameras or printers, mouse or keyboard could plug into. (Small rectangle plug half filled with a white piece of plastic) http://www.cyberwalker.net/connectors/usb.shtml

The URL, is like a post office address, A way for the computers to know where they need to get the information from.
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Answer 7

USB(Universal Serial Bus): IT allows you to connect to devices that are connected to the usb ports on ur computer.

URL(Uniform resource locater): it is the web address like answers.yahoo.com that identifies a web site.

Answer 8

USB is a port, a place you plug into on the computer.

URL is uniform resourse locater, or as you may call it, a web address such as www.hello.com or www. goodbye.com