- 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.
A variable, measurable property whose value is a determinant of the characteristics of a system; e.g. temperature, pressure, and density are parameters of the atmosphere.
Industry:Agricultural chemicals
Data, usually a character string, used to authenticate a user for a service or application.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In Quartz, one or more shapes that Quartz paints as a unit. A path can consist of straight lines, curves, or both. It can be open or closed. (2) For documentation sets, the page to display when the user selects the documentation node or the folder containing that page. This path is interpreted relative to the base URL of the documentation node.
Industry:Software; Computer
A term now used to describe the capacity or amount of traffic (data, voice or video) a certain communications medium is capable of accommodating.
Industry:Electrical equipment
A Mac OS X Installer file. .pkg files can be combined into a metapackage (.mpkg).
Industry:Software; Computer
A surround sound speaker configuration consisting of five speakers arranged in specific positions along the circumference of a circle and a subwoofer (the “.1”). The speaker channels are typically designated as follows: left, center, right, left surround. right surround, and LFE (low frequency effect).
Industry:Software; Computer
Sometimes written as Q8.24 or fx8.24. A fixed-point sample size used as the canonical audio sample type for processing linear PCM audio in iPhone OS, in lieu of 32-bit floating-point samples. In an 8.24 audio sample there are eight bits to the left of the radix point, forming the integer (or “magnitude") portion of the value, and 24 bits to the right, forming the fractional portion.
Industry:Software; Computer
A modeless window that displays an application’s version and copyright information.
Industry:Software; Computer
An object specifier that has enough information to identify an object or objects uniquely. For an object specifier to an application object to be complete, its outermost container must be the application itself. Compare relative object specifier.
Industry:Software; Computer
