desktop

(dĕsk'tŏp')
n.

1. The top of a desk.
2. Computer Science. The background image of a display screen, on which windows, icons, and other graphical items appear.

adj.
Designed for use on a desk or table: a desktop telephone; a desktop computer.

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A single-user computer. It typically refers to a PC or Mac, but may also refer to a Linux PC. Also called a "client computer" or "client" or simply a "desktop."

Contrast With Laptop or Server

Although the term implies stationary use in contrast with a portable laptop computer, the term is often used to refer to users' computers in general, both desktop and laptop, in contrast to a network server. See desktop PC and desktop application.

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The computer screen in a graphical environment such as windows or the macintosh operating system. Applications and documents are represented by icons on the desktop.

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• General Technology - desktop: publishingDTP; use of personal computer with graphics and typographic layout programs, sometimes an image scanner, and usu. a laser printer to design and create publications

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - desktop, bordplade
adj. - desktop-

idioms:

• desktop publishing    desktop publishing, DTP

Nederlands (Dutch)
bureaublad, PC(-), tafel-, bureau-

Français (French)
n. - dessus de bureau, ordinateur (de bureau)
adj. - de table, de bureau

idioms:

• desktop publishing    (Comput) publication assistée par ordinateur

Deutsch (German)
n. - Tischcomputer
adj. - Desktop-

idioms:

• desktop publishing    Desktop Publishing

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (Η/Υ) επιφάνεια εργασίας
attrib. - επιτραπέζιος, προοριζόμενος ή κατάλληλος για τοποθέτηση σε γραφείο

idioms:

• desktop publishing    ηλεκτρονικές επιτραπέζιες εκδόσεις

Italiano (Italian)
piano della scrivania, da scrivania

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - para ser usado sobre a mesa

idioms:

• desktop publishing    editoração (f) eletrônica

Русский (Russian)
крышка стола, настольный

Español (Spanish)
n. - parte superior de una mesa o escritorio
adj. - de oficina, de escritorio

idioms:

• desktop publishing    publicación mediante el uso de computadoras

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - desktop
attr. - skrivbords-

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
桌面, 桌上型计算机, 桌上的

idioms:

• desktop publishing    桌上出版系统

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 桌面, 桌上型電腦
adj. - 桌上的

idioms:

• desktop publishing    桌上出版系統

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 퍼스널 컴퓨터
adj. - 소형의, 탁상용의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 机上用の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) سطح المكتب (صفه) كومبيوتر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מישטח השולחן‬
adj. - ‮שולחני (מחשב)‬

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