- 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 set of attributes used to set security policies for applications and for the system. See also policy database.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) (n.) An instantaneous amplitude of the signal in a single audio channel, represented as an integer, floating-point, or fixed-point number. See also fixed-point sample. (2) (v.) To collect samples from an audio source, typically an analog audio source. Sampling typically involves collecting samples at regular, very brief intervals such as 1/44,100 seconds. (3) (n.) An excerpt of a longer recording. When the excerpt is intended to be played repeatedly, it is called a loop. (4) (v.) To record a sample to use as a loop or for inclusion in a another recording. (5) In QuickTime, a single element of a sequence of time-ordered data.
Industry:Software; Computer
An arbitrary data item available for use by a program to convey information for its own purposes in an operation or data structure.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Core Audio, for a panner unit, a parameter that specifies the real or apparent distance of an audio source from the listener beyond which the source’s level attenuates.
Industry:Software; Computer
A position for the origin of each character or glyph in a line of text given in coordinates relative to the preceding character or glyph. Compare absolute position.
Industry:Software; Computer
A window state in which the user cannot do anything else until the window is dismissed. You should avoid using the system-modal state if at all possible. Compare application-modal, document-modal.
Industry:Software; Computer
In relational databases, a two-dimensional set of values corresponding to an entity. The columns of a table represent characteristics of the entity and the rows represent instances of the entity.
Industry:Software; Computer
In information retrieval systems, the selective copying of terms from one or more documents into an index. See also stemming, stopword.
Industry:Software; Computer
A rectangular area in which the user enters text or modifies existing text. Also called an editable text field, it supports keyboard focus and password entry.
Industry:Software; Computer
An opaque structure that the Multilingual Text Engine uses to handle text formatting at a document level.
Industry:Software; Computer
