1. 1  any of several threadlike bodies, consisting of chromatin, that carry the genes in a linear order: the human species has 23 pairs, designated 1 to 22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosomes respectively.
data source name (DSN) A data source name (DSN) is a data structure that contains the information about a specific database that an Open Database Connectivity ( ODBC ) driver needs in order to connect to it.
NetBIOS Names. A NetBIOS name is an identifier that NetBIOS services running on a computer use. It is a combination of a 15 character (byte) name and a 16th character denoting the service.These names identify resources on the NetBIOS network. If the host name is more than 15 characters, the NetBIOS name is the first 15 characters of the host name. 2  NetBIOS names must be unique on their networks. 3  When a computer is started, various services (such as the server service or the workstation service) register a unique NetBIOS name based on the computer name.