- Industry: Computer; Software
- Number of terms: 54848
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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 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
The directory in which Installer places a package’s payload.
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
The area of a PackageMaker project window that allows packagers to specify a choice requirement (and how it affects the value of the choice’s user-interface properties). See also choice requirement.
Industry:Software; Computer
A Mac OS X application that loads and uses audio units. See also audio unit.
Industry:Software; Computer
Short for synchronization. (1) The process of ensuring that the clocks of two or more systems remain locked together, counting at the same rate. This term is commonly used in the context of locking an audio track to a video track. See also clock, clock drift, SMPTE timecode. (2) In a printing dialog extension, a procedure that maintains the correspondence between the current user interface settings and their recorded values in a job ticket. (3) In Sync Services, the process of establishing and maintaining data consistency between multiple clients.
Industry:Software; Computer
