... FTP 227_4105_DO_CompInternetTerms_A 12/29/08 10:17 AM Page 22 Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms Tenth EditionDouglas A. Downing, Ph.D. School of Business and EconomicsSeattle Pacific ... and the colors are translucent. Thesoftness of the edge, size of the spray pattern, and the degree of opaque-ness can be controlled (see Figure 5). In bitmap-editing programs that do not offer ... 1018electrons has a charge of 1 coulomb, so 1 ampere =1 coulomb per second. ampersand the character &, which stands for the word and. For an illus-tration of ampersands in various typefaces,...