- Industry: Computer; Software
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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 menu that, when closed, displays the current choice and can be opened to present a list of mutually exclusive choices in a dialog or window. Pop-up menus have a double triangle indicator.
Industry:Software; Computer
In image processing, the process of converting vertex and pixel data to fragments, each of which corresponds to a pixel in the framebuffer.
Industry:Software; Computer
In an information retrieval system, a process that attempts to locate documents that match a query, and that may assign relevance scores to the found documents. Upon a successful match, a search system returns references to the found documents. Search Kit supports a variety of search types, some of which can be combined. These types are simple, Boolean, ranked, unranked, phrase, similarity, prefix, suffix, and substring.
Industry:Software; Computer
Code that makes use of available on-board vector processors. vImage uses vector code.
Industry:Software; Computer
An atomic unit of content for text data. A character is an abstract entity without any particular appearance; characters include letters, digits, punctuation, and symbols. Compare character code, glyph.
Industry:Software; Computer
A lightweight reference to files and folders in UFS file systems. A symbolic link allows multiple references to files and folders without requiring multiple copies of these items. Symbolic links are fragile because if what they refer to moves somewhere else in the file system, the link breaks. However, they are useful in cases where the location of the referenced file or folder will not change. See also alias.
Industry:Software; Computer
A conversion table for interpreting a specific character set. See also text encoding.
Industry:Software; Computer
One of two numbers used to track minor version information in a framework. This number marks changes to the public interfaces. The compatibility version typically lags behind the current version. Compare current version.
Industry:Software; Computer
