- Industry: Computer; Software
- Number of terms: 54848
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
A database designed according to the relational model, which uses the discipline of Entity-Relationship modeling and the data design standards called normal forms.
Industry:Software; Computer
In relational databases, a link between two entities that’s based on attributes of the entities. For example, the Department and Employee entities can have a relationship based on the deptID attribute as a foreign key in Employee, and as the primary key in Department. This relationship would make it possible to find the employees for a given department.
Industry:Software; Computer
In relational databases, a key (an attribute) on which a relationship joins.
Industry:Software; Computer
A position for the origin of each character or glyph in a line of text given in coordinates relative to the preceding character or glyph. Compare absolute position.
Industry:Software; Computer
A product component, such as an application binary or a plug-in, that the user may move after it has been installed.
Industry:Software; Computer
A network administrator–driven installation process. An administrator uses Apple Remote Desktop to install a package onto a set of client computers.
Industry:Software; Computer
The ability of users to change the installation location of a package before an installation.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of attributes used to set security policies for applications and for the system. See also policy database.
Industry:Software; Computer
A sequence of glyphs that are contiguous in memory and share a set of common attributes. See also font run.
Industry:Software; Computer
The period of time during which a program is being executed, as opposed to compile time or load time. Can also refer to the runtime environment, which designates the set of conventions that arbitrate how software is generated into executable code, how code is mapped into memory, and how functions call one another.
Industry:Software; Computer
