- 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.
A feature that selects and plays songs randomly.
Industry:Entertainment
In iTunes, a playlist created based on specific criteria, such as artist, genre, song rating, or duration.
Industry:Entertainment
Live audio received over the Internet without downloading it. Streaming does not save a copy of the audio on your PC, while downloading a file does. Internet radio stations generally use streaming audio to broadcast.
Industry:Entertainment
A speaker that produces low-audio frequencies also known as bass.
Industry:Entertainment
Three-dimensional sound, usually created or amplified by the placement of multiple speakers throughout a room or home theater.
Industry:Entertainment
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
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
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
A collection of numbers arranged in a grid. It can be thought of as the mathematical equivalent of a two-dimensional array. Much like two-dimensional arrays, matrices are composed of rows and columns with their elements referred to as cells. See also transformation matrix.
Industry:Software; Computer
