| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | display adapter | 显示适配卡 (The electronic components that generate the video signal sent through a cable to a video display. The video adapter is usually located on the computer's main system board or on an expansion board, but it is sometimes built into the terminal) |
| comp., MS | monochrome display adapter | 单色显示适配器 (The video adapter introduced with the earliest model of the IBM PC in 1981. MDA was capable of only one video mode: a character mode with 25 lines of 80 characters each, with underlining, blinking, and high-intensity characters. IBM did not use the name Monochrome Display Adapter or the acronym MDA) |