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carbon copy

a copy of a message which all persons on the Cc: list receive. Recipients of the message can see who else it has been circulated to.

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

a logic chip that executes instructions passed to it.

current directory

the directory you are currently "in". Its value is displayed with the pwd command. It is synonymous with the term current working directory.