nonvolatile
Adjective
Meaning
not volatilizing readily
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a nonvolatile acid
A decreased volatility was observed for RfClmain when potassium chloride is provided as the solid phase instead of gas, highly indicative of the formation of nonvolatile Kmain RfClmain mixed salt.
A CMOx device employs a form of resistive technology, but its operation differs from that of other resistive nonvolatile storage devices.
If Ctrl+Alt+Delete was pressed ("warm boot"), a special flag value is stored in nonvolatile BIOS memory (" CMOS ") before the processor is reset, and after the reset the BIOS startup code detects this flag and does not run the POST.
Later computers, including all IBM-compatibles with 80286 CPUs, had a battery-backed nonvolatile BIOS memory (CMOS RAM chip) that held BIOS settings.
FPGAs that store their configuration internally in nonvolatile flash memory, such as Microsemi 's ProAsic 3 or Lattice 's XP2 programmable devices, do not expose the bitstream and do not need encryption.