A PCI slot is a built-in slot on a device that allows for the attachment of various hardware components such as network cards, modems, sound cards, disk controllers and other peripherals. It was often a component of traditional do-it-yourself (DIY) desktop computer design. PCIe slot (Image credit: MMXeon/Shutterstock) PCIe (peripheral component interconnect express) is an interface standard for connecting high-speed components. Every desktop PC motherboard has a. Slot noun C (LONG HOLE) C1 a long, narrow hole, especially one for putting coins into or for fitting a separate piece into: I put my money in the slot and pressed the button but nothing came out. Rank-and-file editors - 'rim men' - sat around the outside, while the guy in charge sat in the 'slot' so he could reach all the rim guys when he needed to hand out stories to work on. The term is still widely. Slot definition, a narrow, elongated depression, groove, notch, slit, or aperture, especially a narrow opening for receiving or admitting something, as a coin or a letter.
Alternatively referred to as a K lock or K slot, the Kensington lock is small hole found on almost every portable computer made after the year 2000. Depending on the model of laptop, the hole is located either on the back corner or on the side.
Laptops with a Kensington lock hole can secure their portable device with a Kensington lock. The lock is inserted through the hole, with a cable attached around a secure location (e.g., table leg), so no one can walk away with the laptop while you're away.
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The copy desk of the
Indianapolis Star, circa 1942.
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The term is still widely used today (though often it's just 'slot'), and some copy desks are still set up in basically the same fashion, except with computers.
In the photo above, as the ancient textbook from which I stole it putsit, 'The arrangement is somewhat unusual, because on only a few papersdoes anyone sit inside the horseshoe except the head of the desk. In thisinstance the state editor is seated inside at the foot on the left sideand the telegraph editor inside at the foot on the right side. The slotman is in the center of the horseshoe across from the head of the desk andthe news editor.' (This caption appears to use 'head of the desk' once as a term for a human and once as a geographical term.)
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The term is still widely used today (though often it's just 'slot'), and some copy desks are still set up in basically the same fashion, except with computers.
In the photo above, as the ancient textbook from which I stole it putsit, 'The arrangement is somewhat unusual, because on only a few papersdoes anyone sit inside the horseshoe except the head of the desk. In thisinstance the state editor is seated inside at the foot on the left sideand the telegraph editor inside at the foot on the right side. The slotman is in the center of the horseshoe across from the head of the desk andthe news editor.' (This caption appears to use 'head of the desk' once as a term for a human and once as a geographical term.)
Move on to HOW TO BECOME A COPY EDITORReturn to WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR?
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