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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | ACPI Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is an open industry standard developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba for configuration and power management.
The key element of the standard is power management with two important improvements. First, it puts the OS in control of power management. In the currently existing APM model most of the power management tasks are run by the BIOS, with limited intervention from the OS. In ACPI, the BIOS is responsible for the dirty details of communicating with hardware equipment but the control is in the OS.
The other important feature is bringing power management features currently only available in portable computers to the desktop as well as into servers. Extremely low consumption states, i.e., in which only memory, or not even memory is powered, but from which ordinary interrupts (real time clock, keyboard, modem, etc.) can quickly wake the system, are today available in portables only. The standard should make these available for a wider range of systems.
For ACPI to work the operating system, the motherboard chipset, and for some functions even the CPU, has to be designed for it.
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Crosswords: ACPI |
| Specialty definitions using "ACPI": Advanced Configuration and Power Interface ♦ Windows 2000. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
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ACPI | English | Advanced Configuration and Power Interface | Computer - (Intel, MS, Toshiba, ACPI) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pica. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-p" | |
-1 letter: cap, pac, pia, pic. | |
-2 letters: ai, pa, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-p" | |
+1 letter: aspic, campi, carpi, panic, pical, picas, plica, spica. | |
+2 letters: adipic, apical, apices, apiece, apneic, aspics, atopic, atypic, bipack, caliph, capias, capita, caplin, capric, capris, capsid, catnip, epical, haptic, icecap, impact, ipecac, pacify, pacing, painch, panics, phasic, phatic, pianic, picara, picaro, pickax, piracy, placid, plaice, plicae, plical, scampi, spicae, spicas, tipcat. | |
+3 letters: acapnia, agapeic, aphasic, aphetic, aphonic, aphotic, apicals, apiculi, aplitic, apnoeic, apogeic, apomict, apraxic, apricot, aprotic, aseptic, auspice, bipacks, calipee, caliper, caliphs, campier, campily, camping, campion, cantrip, capelin, capital, capitol, caplins, capping, caprice, caprine, capsids, capsize, captain, caption, captive, carping, catnips, chapati, charpai, cheapie, coalpit, copaiba, crampit, craping, crappie, cyprian, diptyca, ectopia, edaphic, epicarp, episcia, graphic, haircap, hepatic, icecaps, impacts, impeach, inclasp, inscape, ipecacs, isopach, jalapic, oilcamp, opacify, opacity, optical, pachisi, pacific, packing, paction, panicky, panicle, panicum, paprica, paretic, parodic, parotic, paucity, peacing, peccavi, peculia, pedicab, pelagic, pelican, pemican, peracid, phallic, picacho, picador, picante, picaras, picaros, pickaxe, picrate, pinnace, piratic, piscary, piscina, placing, placoid, plaices, plasmic, plastic, pliancy, plicate, potamic, practic, priapic, primacy, privacy, prosaic, psalmic, psoatic, puranic, pyaemic, replica, sapphic, scaping, scrapie, spacial, spacier, spacing, spastic, spathic, special, spicate, spicula, spinach, tapioca, tipcart, tipcats, topical, tripack, typical, wickape. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 43 50 49 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.-. .--. .. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000011 01010000 01001001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A C P I |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0043 0050 0049 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35375043 |
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