- 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.
To make a search index smaller by removing unused bits. Over time, as documents get added to and removed from an index, the index’s disk or memory footprint may grow due to fragmentation. Search Kit includes APIs to check for fragmentation and to compact an index. See also fragmentation.
Industry:Software; Computer
In an audio data stream, a distinct break in the sequence of transmitted data. A discontinuity entails a period in which the stream is undefined. See also TCP stream.
Industry:Software; Computer
A unique identifier assigned to a media folder by DVD Playback Services. This identifier can be used as a key when saving information about media playback, such as bookmarks.
Industry:Software; Computer
The visual representation of the text of a text layout object. Display text consists of a sequence of glyphs, arranged in display order. Compare source text.
Industry:Software; Computer
In surround sound and immersive audio, the real or apparent straight line distance of an audio source from the listener.
Industry:Software; Computer
A difference, typically unintentional and undesired, between the signals on the input and output of an audio device. Commonly measured types of distortion include harmonic distortion, intermodulation distortion, quantization distortion, and jitter. Intentional differences between input and output signals, such as level or equalization differences, are not described as distortion. Compare noise.
Industry:Software; Computer
A unit or collection of data, contained in a file or sandboxing, that can be operated on by an application. In Search Kit, anything that contains text and that the Search Kit client application addresses as a document—an RTF document, a PDF file, a Mail message, an Address Book entry, the contents at an Internet URL, the result of a database query, and so on. See also document URL object.
Industry:Software; Computer
A specification used to describe the structure of XML documents. XML Schema is more powerful than document type definition (DTD) because it includes facilities to specify the data type of elements and it is based on XML.
Industry:Software; Computer
A family of document files characterized by a given file type, creator signature, or filename extension. Compare URL type.
Industry:Software; Computer
A user interface element that displays a list of possible selections to the user.
Industry:Software; Computer
