- 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.
The process of reducing the range of audio signals in a recording, thus decreasing the size of the file. MP3 compression eliminates frequencies less audible to the human ear, though a bit rate below 128Kbps produces a discernible loss in sound quality.
Industry:Entertainment
To send data to a software application or storage media, or to an individual via e-mail.
Industry:Entertainment
(1) A pattern or model designed to guide development in accordance with a specific predefined format or structure. (2) In Xcode, a structured set of default resources (files, folders, frameworks, and so forth) necessary for a specific type of programming project. (2) In Quartz Composer, a composition file that contains a basic set of patches for a particular purpose. (3) In a WebObjects component, a file containing HTML that specifies the overall appearance of a Web page generated from the component.
Industry:Software; Computer
A kernel resource that triggers an event at a specified interval. The event can occur only once or can be recurring. Timers are one of the input sources for run loops. Timers are also implemented at higher levels of the system, such as CFTimer in Core Foundation and NSTimer in Cocoa.
Industry:Software; Computer
The object in an application designated to receive an AppleScript command.
Industry:Software; Computer
Sound pressure level. A measure of sound intensity. SPL is commonly expressed as a ratio in decibels relative to 0 dB SPL, or as an absolute level in Pascals (Pa). Although SPL is sometimes used to approximately indicate loudness, the correlation of SPL to loudness is complex due to perceptual factors. See also weighting.
Industry:Software; Computer
A device used to remove dust and other particles from air for the purposes of reducing the load on the respiratory system and to protect the HVAC equipment. Filters vary greatly in particle arrestance; the higher the MERV rating, the better the filter.
Industry:Household appliances
In AppleScript, series of characters that identifies a value or handler. Identifiers are used to name variables, handlers, parameters, properties, and commands.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Search Kit, a memory- or file-based sequential collection of the terms in one or more documents. In addition to terms, Search Kit indexes contain context information that specifies which documents each term belongs to, along with term and document metadata useful during display of search results. Search Kit performs its searching and analysis on indexes. See also inverted index, inverted-vector index, vector index.
Industry:Software; Computer
