Software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.
"Open source software promotes collaboration and sharing, allowing anyone to improve and tweak software as they see fit."
The smallest unit of data in computing, represented by a 1 or a 0.
"A single bit can represent a binary state, such as on or off."
An operator that takes a single operand/argument and performs an operation.
"The unary negation operator '-' inverts the sign of a number, while the unary plus operator '+' returns the numeric representation of an object."
A request to the kernel of an operating system to perform a specific task or operation, often initiated by user programs or system utilities.
"The 'open' system call was used to open a file for reading or writing."
