Origin of excerpt. From Middle English excerpted from Latin excerptus past participle of excerpere to pick out ex-ex-carpere to pluck; see kerp-in Indo-European roots.
What is Degaussing. Degaussing is simply the act of erasing data from magnetic media. Sometimes it is referred to as sanitization.. It works by subjecting magnetic media to a strong magnetic field that removes data from data bearing surfaces. The magnetic field can be created either by powerful magnets or an electromagnetic discharge.
(September 2009) In computing, data deduplication is a specialized data compression technique for eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data. Related and somewhat synonymous terms are intelligent (data) compression and single-instance (data) storage.