- 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 horizontal strip from an image. For raster printing, the image corresponding to the page raster is broken into strips of manageable size.
Industry:Software; Computer
The coordinate system where the origin is set at the top-left corner of the main viewing screen. Compare local coordinates.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of flags specifying the manner in which an application is to be opened.
Industry:Software; Computer
An application that uses a helper tool to perform specific tasks. Interprocess communication mechanisms are used to communicate between processes. In a factored application that uses Authorization Services, the code that performs privileged operations is factored into a separate helper tool.
Industry:Software; Computer
A high-level language, accessible in C, used to produce advanced imaging effects. The Apple implementation of OpenGL supports ARB_shading_language_100 .
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In analog audio, the width of a frequency band for a transmission channel, from a lower to an upper frequency limit. The limits are defined in terms of signal attenuation, in decibels, relative to the level at the center of the band. See also decibel. (2) In digital data transmission, the available data throughput for a transmission channel. Digital bandwidth is typically expressed in terms of bits or bytes per second. See also bit rate.
Industry:Software; Computer
A dispatch queue provided to your application automatically by Grand Central Dispatch (GCD). You do not have to create global queues yourself or retain or release them. Instead, you retrieve them using the system-provided functions.
Industry:Software; Computer
The sequence of operations performed by an application immediately on being launched, indicated visually to the user by the application’s icon bouncing in the Dock.
Industry:Software; Computer
A function in a printing plug-in that returns a pointer to an instance of the requested interface.
Industry:Software; Computer
