- 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.
An operator that derives a new value from a pair of values.
Industry:Software; Computer
The font style that Xcode uses in panes of Project and Target Info windows to indicate build settings specified at the current level. Build settings that are not in bold text are specified at lower layers.
Industry:Software; Computer
A pair of related but dissimilar keys, one used for encrypting and the other used for decrypting a message or other data. See also public key cryptography. Compare symmetric keys.
Industry:Software; Computer
A protected variable that restricts access to a shared resource. Semaphores are used to coordinate activities in which multiple processes compete for the same resources—for example, to share a common memory space or to share access to files. Mutexes and conditions are both types of semaphore. A semaphore is similar to a lock, except that a finite number of threads can be holding a semaphore at the same time. See also lock.
Industry:Software; Computer
A hardware or software conduit for the conveyance of a data stream or an analog signal.
Industry:Software; Computer
A short-lived collection of one or more indexes; the target of a search. An index group corresponds to one or more aspects of the corpus of documents you want to search. For example, one index in a group might contain document titles, while another contains the body text of those same documents. An index group can also comprise indexes of multiple corpora. See also corpus.
Industry:Software; Computer
The component of a URL that identifies the type of resource it represents or the protocol to be used for accessing it, such as http, ftp, mailto, or file. See also document URL object.
Industry:Software; Computer
In database application development, a strategy for managing update conflicts. See also update conflict.
Industry:Software; Computer
