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Marquee

The outline of dotted lines that selection tools create around the selected part of the image.

Megabyte

1024 Kilobytes, written MB, and used to refer to size of files or media such as hard drives. Refers to amount of information in a file, or how much information can be contained on a hard drive or disk.

Multimedia

Human-computer interaction involving text, graphics, voice and video. Often also includes concepts from hypertext. This term has come to be almost synonymous with CD-ROM in the personal computer world because the large amounts of data involved are currently best supplied on CD-ROM.