Definitions of USB on the Web:

 hardware, standard> Universal Serial Bus. An external peripheral

interface standard for communication between a computer and
external peripherals over a cable using bi-serial transmission.
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 Universal Serial Bus
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 Universal Serial Bus: a protocol for transferring data to and from
digital devices. Many digital cameras and memory card readers
connect to the USB port on a computer. USB card readers are
typically faster than cameras or readers that connect to the
serial port, but slower than those that connect via FireWire.
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 Universal Serial Bus, a port that allows the hot-plugging of
multiple external plug-and-play devices.
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 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.
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 USB stands for Universal Serial Bus and is a new technology
theoretically capable of connecting a very large number of
external devices on a computer. USB is intended primarily for
low bandwidth (slow) components such as mice, keyboards,
modems, joysticks, etc., but not fast devices like hard drives.
USB has its benefits and its problems, which I will not go into
depth about. Most computers have 2 USB ports. ...
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 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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 Another computer connection, USB allows computer peripherals,
including eventually some A/V gear, to be added in daisy-chain
fashion. The connector is similar to IEEE 1394, but it transfers
 data at a slower rate, a maximum of 12 megabits per second.
Far from universally adopted, though provided on many of the
latest Wintel and Macintosh computers, USB may be supplanted
by a USB2 in the near future.
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 A hardware interface for low-speed peripherals such as the
keyboard, mouse, joystick, scanner, printer, and telephony
devices.
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 Universal Serial Bus. USB Provides a fast Plug-and-play
connection between a computer and peripheral devices like usb
print servers, scanners and printers.
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server-glossary.html
 (Universial Serial Bus) Scanner or base connects to the computer
through a USB port. Most of the time when connected in this
way the scanner emulates the keyboard on the computer.
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 Universal Serial Bus: USB is a solution for PCs for an instant, no-
hassle way to connect a digital joysticks, scanners, digital
speakerss, digital cameras, or a PC telephone to computers.
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 USB stands for Universal Serial Bus, and is a port on a computer
that allows external devices to be connected simply and easily.
USB is a relatively new standard for peripheral connection,
however the benefits of simple installation and high-speed data
transfer make it an attractive option. All new home computers
now come with USB ports built in.
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 Universal Serial Bus. A standard for attaching serial devices such
as keyboards, disk drives, and some types of storage. At the
time of this writing USB video capture devices were just
becoming available.
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terms-and-abbriviation-tz.html
 Undergraduate Studies Board - an advisory body and a review
committee of the Council of Centre Chairs.
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 Acronym for Universal Serial Bus. USB is known as a plug and
play interface between a computer and a peripheral, such as a
mouse, keyboard, digital camera, printer or scanner. Unlike
devices connected via SCSI ports, USB devices can be added to
and removed from the computer without having to reboot the
 computer.
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 (Universal Serial Bus) A new type of external bus contending to
replace serial and parallel ports. Many devices can be connected
to USB ports, which support Plug-and-Play and hot-swapping.
USB transfers data at speeds of 12 Mbps (megabits per second).
www.netpanel.com/features/computer/bus.htm
 Universal Serial Bus. This is a standard for connecting
peripherals to computers including low-bandwidth digital still and
video cameras. USB supports low and medium-bandwidth
peripherals. There are at least two versions of the USB standard:
USB 1.0 and USB 2.0. USB is managed by the Universal Serial
Bus Implementers Forum, Inc. (USB-IF), a non-profit corporation
founded by the group of corporations that developed the USB
specification. http://www.usb.org/
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 (Universal Serial Bus) is a versatile port. It can function as a
serial, parallel, mouse, keyboard, or joystick port. It is fast
enough, 12Mbps, to support video transfer, and is capable of
supporting up to 127 daisy-chained peripheral devices. [top]
www.usbman.com/glossarycomputerterms.htm
 (Universal serial Bus) A type of standard connection port used to
connect printers, modems and mice.
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 Users can connect USB devices to computers through USB ports
without turning the power off. Although this is very convenient,
the bandwidth is lower than other devices, which jeopardizes the
quality somewhat
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 (Universal Serial Bus) A widely used hardware interface for
attaching peripheral devices. USB ports began to appear on PCs
in 1997, and Windows 98 was the first Windows to support it
natively. Within a few years, USB became popular for connecting
nearly every external peripheral device. Replacing the serial and
parallel ports on a PC, at least four USB ports are standard on
every computer.
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 A specification standard for connecting peripherals to a
computer.
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 A type of port designed to make installation and configuration of
I/O devices easy, providing room for as many as 127 devices
daisy-chained together.
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 (Universal Serial Bus). This is the data I/O port on most
digicams and is also found on modern home PC and Mac
computers. It is faster than the serial port and transfers up to
12Mb/s (megabytes per second) with v1.1 interfaces.
www.all-things-photography.com/digital-dictionary.html
 Universal Serial Bus (USB) provides a serial bus standard for
connecting devices, usually to a computer, but it also is in use
on other devices such as set-top boxes, game consoles and
PDAs.
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 USB can mean: *Universal Serial Bus, a computer bus
standard*upper sideband, an amplitude modulation transmission
method by radio*Unified S-band in communications
satellites*ultrasound-guided biopsy in oncology*Uniwersytet
Stefana Batorego (Stefan Batory University; now Vilnius
University)*US Bancorp financial services holding company
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