Vocab MP2

Sans serif fonts: In print, sans-serif fonts are more typically used for headlines than for body text.

ScreenTip: Microsoft invented another term, “ScreenTip”, and uses it in its end-user documentation.

Scroll bars: Examples of horizontal and vertical scroll bars around a text box.

Section: distinct part: a distinct part that can be separated or considered separately from the whole of something

Select query: Given a table T, the query SELECT * FROM T will result in all the elements of all the rows of the table being shown.

Selection: In the context of evolution, certain traits or alleles of genes segregating within a population may be subject to selection.

Serif fonts: In the Chinese and Japanese writing systems, there are common type styles based on the regular script for Chinese characters akin to serif and sans serif fonts in the West.

Shortcut menu: A context menu (also called contextual, shortcut, and popup or pop-up menu) is a menu in a graphical user interface (GUI) that appears upon user interaction, such as a right mouse click

Sigma: Sigma (upper case Σ, lower case σ, lower case in word-final position ς; Greek σίγμα) is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet

Simple payback period: There is no formula to calculate the payback period, except the simple and unrealistic case of the initial cash outlay and further constant cash inflows or constantly growing cash