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  1. home directory The directory you are put into when you log in. On a Unix system, the name is often placed into $ENV{HOME} or $ENV{LOGDIR} by login, but you can also find…
  2. home handle An object that can be used to obtain a reference to the home interface. A home handle can be serialized and written to stable storage and deserialized to…
  3. home interface One of two interfaces for an enterprise bean. The home interface defines zero or more methods for managing an enterprise bean.
  4. home network The carrier's own Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) network. [T1.226-1992]
  5. home page Main page of a Web site. Usually has hyperlinks to other pages, both inside and outside the site.
  6. home server The Exchange server that contains a user's mailbox.
  7. Homeostasis (HOH-mee-oh-STAY-sis) A state of balance among all the body systems needed for the body to survive and function correctly.
  8. Homepage A homepage is the main page of a website. Like a cover of a book or the front of a store, its function is to welcome people and to inform them of the…
  9. homing A process in which a mobile station is directed, or directs itself, toward an electromagnetic, thermal, sonic, or other source of energy, whether primary…
  10. Homing All-the- Way Killer (HAWK) (1) Upgrades to the HAWK interceptor and radar system to provide the Marine Corps with a mobile point theater ballistic missile defense capability.
  11. Homing Device A device, mounted on a missile, to aid its guidance to a target. The homing device uses sensors to detect the position of, or to help predict the future…
  12. Homing Guidance A system by which a missile steers itself towards a target by means of a selfcontained mechanism which is activated by some distinguishing characteristics…
  13. Homing Tandem Operating Company The Homing Tandem Operating Company is the company identified in the Telcordia LERG Routing Guide as being the owner of the tandem to which the NXX code…
  14. homochronous The relationship between two signals such that their corresponding significant instants are displaced by a constant interval of time.
  15. homogeneous cladding In an optical fiber, a cladding in which the nominal refractive index is constant throughout.
  16. homogeneous collection A collection of objects with the same dynamic type. Arrays are the most common homogeneous collection objects. See heterogeneous collection.
  17. homogeneous multiplexing Multiplexing in which all of the information-bearer channels operate at the same data signaling rate.
  18. HOMS Homing Overlay Mission Simulation.
  19. Honey Pot In our context, it is also known as a “spam trap”. We have thousands of domains which accept all email sent to them, with the express purpose of…
  20. Honeypot A host that is designed to collect data on suspicious activity and has no authorized users other than its administrators.
  21. hop An intermediate stop on the path along which mail is routed when the sender's server and recipient's server are not directly connected.
  22. hop count In a data communications network, the number of legs traversed by a packet between its source and destination.
  23. horizon angle Of a directional antenna, the angle, in a vertical plane, subtended by the lines extending (a) from the antenna to the radio horizon and (b) from the…
  24. horizontal redundancy check Synonym longitudinal redundancy check.
  25. horizontal resolution 1. In facsimile, the number of pixels per unit distance in the direction of scanning or recording. 2.
  26. Horizontal Scaling See Scale Out
  27. horn In radio transmission, an open-ended waveguide, of increasing cross-sectional area, which radiates directly in a desired direction or feeds a reflector…
  28. horn gap switch A switch provided with arcing horns, ordinarily used for disconnecting or breaking the charging current of overhead transmission and distribution lines.
  29. host In a network, the central computer which controls the remote computers and holds the central databases.
  30. host address A fully qualified domain name (usually alphabetic) identifying the address of one specific host computer on the Internet.
  31. host bus adapter (HBA) Any hardware bridge between a storage interconnect and a system's I/O bus.
  32. host central office An electronic analog or digital base switching unit containing the central call processing functions which service the host office and its remote…
  33. host certificate An EEC belonging to a host. When using GSI this certificate is typically stored in /etc/grid-security/hostcert.pem.
  34. host computer In a computer network, a computer that provides end users with services such as computation and database access and that usually performs network control…
  35. host credentials The combination of a host certificate and its corresponding private key.
  36. Host Credentials Authorization Protocol A protocol used by Access Control Server (ACS) to send and receive statements of health to and from other NAP infrastructure components.
  37. Host Installation A designated DoD facility that provides non peculiar SDS support of SDS elements.
  38. Host Interface The interface between a communications processor and a host computer.
  39. host name A fully qualified domain name identifying one specific host computer within the Internet.
  40. Host Nation Support Civil and/or military assistance rendered by a nation to foreign forces within its territory during peacetime, crisis or emergencies, or war based on…
  41. Host OS (Operating System) the operating system first installed on a computer which can run virtualization software to host one or more virtual machines.
  42. host system A computer system on which a process is run.
  43. Host System (or Host) A computer system on which VMware Workstation software is running.
  44. host-host protocol End-to-end (transport) protocol.
  45. Host-Only Networking A type of network connection between a virtual machine and the host. Under host-only networking, a virtual machine is connected to the host on a private…
  46. hosted environment installing virtualization software on top of an existing standard operating system to provide services for one or more virtual machines.
  47. Hosted organization (aka virtual server, virtual machine, virtual organization) A collection of Exchange services including, but not limited to virtual servers (that is, instances of IMAP4, SMTP, POP3, NNTP, HTTP, RVP), storage space…
  48. Hosted Virtualization A virtualization approach where partitioning and virtualization services run on top of a standard operating system (the host).
  49. hosted zone A collection of resource record sets that Amazon Route 53 hosts. Like a traditional DNS zone file, a hosted zone represents a collection of records that…
  50. Hostile Environment Those environments that result from a BMD system engagement of an enemy threat or collateral conditions resulting from deliberate hostilities.
  51. Hostile Track The classification assigned to a track that, based upon established criteria, is determined to be an enemy threat.
  52. hosting Synonym (in Internet usage) content hosting.
  53. hosting environment See container.
  54. hostname The name of a host system.
  55. HostRAID Adaptec's integrated RAID feature that allows our Ultra320 controllers to provide maximum storage capacity for integrated RAID solutions: four hard disk…
  56. hot boot Synonym warm restart.
  57. Hot Plug / Hot Swap The ability to install or remove components of a computer, whileit is operating.
  58. hot site An alternate facility that has the equipment and resources to immediately recover the business functions affected by the occurrence of a disaster See also…
  59. Hot Spare A spare hard drive which will automatically be used to replace the failed member of a redundant disk array.
  60. hot spot See: recombinational hot spot.
  61. hot standby See standby.
  62. hot swap The ability to remove a failed member of a redundant disk array and replace it with a good drive without bringing down the server or interrupting…
  63. hotbot Synonym droid.
  64. HotFix A single, cumulative package composed of one or more files used to address a problem in a product.
  65. hotfix package A single, cumulative package composed of one or more files used to address a problem in a product.
  66. hotline A point-to-point communications link in which a call is automatically originated to the preselected destination without any additional action by the user…
  67. hotlink See hyperlink.
  68. hotlist A list of frequently used web locations and URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). Note: Hotlists may consist of a) lists of bookmarks accessed by a browser or…
  69. house cable Deprecated term. Communication cable within a building or a complex of buildings.
  70. housekeeping records Records of an organization that relate to budget, fiscal, personnel, supply and similar administrative or facilitative operations normally common to most…
  71. housekeeping signals Synonym service signals.
  72. HP Hit points or Health
  73. HPA Hectopascal- A unit of pressure equal to a millibar (1 hPa = 1 mb).
  74. HPC Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
  75. HPCC High Performance Computing and Communications.
  76. HPG Homopolar Generator.
  77. HPI High Power Illuminator (Hawk).
  78. HPIR High Power Illuminator Radar.
  79. HPL High Power Laser.
  80. HPM High Power Microwave.
  81. HQ Headquarters. 129
  82. HQMC Headquarters, Marine Corps.
  83. HRA A component of Network Access Protection (NAP) that validates statements of health (SoHs) and approves the issuance of a health certificate to clients…
  84. HRDS High Resolution Display System.
  85. HREPS Heavy Replicas.
  86. HRR High Range Resolution.
  87. HRSA HICTB Requirements, Support and Analysis.
  88. HSB Color Model A color model based upon representing a color as three components: hue, saturation and brightness.
  89. HSC (Host Software Component) the StorageTek software component that maintains, in a DASD control data set (CDS), records of the cartridges stored in each automated cartridge system…
  90. HSDB High Speed Data Bus ( TelComm /Computer term).
  91. HSFB High Speed Fleet Broadcast (Navy term).
  92. HSI Human Systems Integration.
  93. HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) software that automatically migrates unreferenced data sets from expensive, high-speed storage media, such as DASD, to progressively cheaper, less…
  94. HSV Huntsville, Alabama.
  95. HTCIA High Technology Crime Investigation Association.
  96. HTI Horizontal Technology Initiative.
  97. HTICIA High Technology Crime Investigation Association.
  98. HTK Hit-to-Kill.
  99. HTMIAC High Temperature Materials Information Analysis Center.
  100. HTML Hypertext Markup Language.