- 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.
(1) A word that is an explicit part of a programming language; also called a reserved word. (2) In a PostScript printer description file, a string used to describe a printer—for example, *PageSize and *Font . (3) A four-character code used by the Apple Event Manager to identify a specific descriptor within an Apple event.
Industry:Software; Computer
One of the keys with the letter F and a number, plus the Help, Home, Page Up, Page Down, Del, and End keys.
Industry:Software; Computer
In the I/O Kit, a collection of software abstractions that are common to all devices of a particular category. Families provide functionality and services to drivers. Examples of families include protocol families (such as SCSI, USB, and Firewire), storage families (disk drives), network families, and families that describe human interface devices (mouse and keyboard).
Industry:Software; Computer
In audio, the ratio of output level to the corresponding input level for a device. Level is typically represented in terms of power or voltage, but gain is unitless and is identical whether voltages or powers were used to calculate it. Because gain is a ratio, it is usually described using decibels. A gain of 0 dB indicates no change in level, while a gain of 10 dB is perceived as approximately a doubling in loudness—depending on the nature of the sound and on the initial loudness.
Industry:Software; Computer
A stored sequence of character codes that represents a line of text. Characters in source text are stored in input order. Compare display text.
Industry:Software; Computer
A fill that varies from one color to another. See also axial gradient, radial gradient.
Industry:Software; Computer
The middle pitch of a voice, from which the actual pitches of the speech can vary with rising and falling tunes. Pitch is a combination of the average speaking frequency and its variations around that average.
Industry:Software; Computer
The process of representing an analog (continuous-scale) value by a digital (discrete-scale) value. Quantization is characterized by a bit depth, which determines the dynamic range that can be represented, and a scaling factor, which determines the ratio between the analog and digital scales.
Industry:Software; Computer
