資料來源 : pyDict
下行裝載,向下裝載 ; (也有人縮寫為 D/L ,指的是由本地機從網絡上接收文件或數據)
資料來源 : WordNet®
download
v : transfer a file or program from a central computer to a
smaller computer or to a computer at a remote location
[ant: {upload}]
資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
download
To transfer data or (especially) code from one
computer to another. The distinction between downloading and
uploading is hazy but downloading often refers to transfer
from a larger "host" system (especially a {server} or
{mainframe}) to a smaller "client" system, especially a
{microcomputer} or specialised peripheral.
Opposite: {upload}.
However, note that ground-to-space communications has its own
usage rule for this term. Space-to-earth transmission is
always "down" and the reverse "up" regardless of the relative
size of the computers involved. So far the in-space machines
have invariably been smaller; thus the upload/download
distinction has been reversed from its usual sense.
[{Jargon File}]
(1994-12-07)