Lex Cyberia

Cyber Glossary

Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.

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MDI

(Multiple Document Interface) a Windows interface program allowing programmers to write applications with many windows, with each application having a main window and a varying number of child windows. The child windows are shown inside of the main window. MDI is rapidly being replaced by a newer application program interface (API) called Single Interface Document (SDI).