- 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 processor that can perform arithmetic on several pairs of numbers simultaneously. Also called an array processor.
Industry:Software; Computer
A collection of characters treated as individual components of a whole, including a principal character plus attachments in memory. For example, in Hebrew, a cluster may be composed of a consonant, a vowel, a dot to soften the pronunciation of the consonant, and a cantillation mark.
Industry:Software; Computer
An electronic circuit that acts much like a compressor, except it keeps the dynamic range of a signal within fixed limits.
Industry:Consumer electronics
A type of geometric operation that reflects an image about its y-axis.
Industry:Software; Computer
The actual drawing position on the x-axis for the origin of each character or glyph in a line of text given in coordinates relative to the preceding character or glyph.
Industry:Software; Computer
A lightweight reference to files and folders in UFS file systems. A symbolic link allows multiple references to files and folders without requiring multiple copies of these items. Symbolic links are fragile because if what they refer to moves somewhere else in the file system, the link breaks. However, they are useful in cases where the location of the referenced file or folder will not change. See also alias.
Industry:Software; Computer
Audio Engineering Society. An international society of audio professionals that has established many important standards related to digital audio.
Industry:Software; Computer
A conversion table for interpreting a specific character set. See also text encoding.
Industry:Software; Computer
A key that sends a character to the computer. Character keys include letters, numbers, punctuation, and the Space bar, and nonprinting characters such as Tab and Return.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a mode that the Documentation window operates in. You can find documents by API symbol name, document title, or document content. Compare browse mode.
Industry:Software; Computer
