- Industry: Computer; Software
- Number of terms: 54848
- Number of blossaries: 7
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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 construct used to synchronize access to a resource. A thread waiting on a condition is not allowed to proceed until another thread explicitly signals the condition.
Industry:Software; Computer
An abstract space that indicates where drawing should occur. For example, an OpenGL context specifies where OpenGL drawing should occur. A visual context is typically associated with an NSView or HIView object.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) A term that an information retrieval system considers to be equivalent to another term for both indexing and querying. For example, an IR system could define “car,” “passenger vehicle,” and “automobile” to be synonyms. See also index, information retrieval, query. (2) An AppleScript word, phrase, or language element that has the same meaning as another AppleScript word, phrase, or language element. For example, the operator does not equal is a synonym for ≠.
Industry:Software; Computer
A wait queue with additional locking semantics. When a thread sleeps, waiting for some event to occur, it releases a related lock so that another thread can cause that event to occur. When the second thread posts the event, the first thread wakes up, and, depending on the condition variable semantics used, either takes the lock immediately or begins waiting for the lock to become available.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a group of configuration files joined together by #include directives.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Core Audio, a hand-off point for audio data entering or leaving an audio unit. A connection has one or more channels. See also channel.
Industry:Software; Computer
A component containing data and, optionally, executable code that helps to shape the sound of synthesized speech.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) A text-based login environment that also displays system log messages, kernel panics, and other information. (2) A special window in Mac OS X that displays messages that would be printed to the text console if the GUI were not in use. This window also displays output written to the standard error and standard output streams by applications launched from the Finder.
Industry:Software; Computer
The rules for constructing a valid AppleScript statement of a particular type.
Industry:Software; Computer
