- 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 variable that is available anywhere in the script in which it is defined.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In the virtual-memory system, faults are the mechanism for initiating page-in activity. They are interrupts that occur when code tries to access data at a virtual address that is not mapped to physical memory. Soft faults happen when the referenced page is resident in physical memory but is unmapped. Hard (or page) faults occur when the page has been swapped out to backing store. See also page, virtual memory. (2) A type of object in Enterprise Objects that represents a partially formed enterprise object instance. Faults are proxy or stand-in objects that provide performance benefits by delaying the retrieval of data in an enterprise object until it’s absolutely needed.
Industry:Software; Computer
The fine adjustment of glyph positions at the ends of lines to give a more even visual appearance to margins.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, a parameter that need not be included for a command to be successful.
Industry:Software; Computer
A file package containing the code and other resources that make up a Mac OS X application. Application packages make it easy for users to move applications in their file systems. The contents of an application package are visible to users only when they Control-click the package and choose Show Package Contents.
Industry:Software; Computer
The ability for a computer to understand spoken commands or responses.
Industry:Software; Computer
The matching of the terms in a query string to indexed terms using exact, character-for-character matching. Each term is matched separately. In Search Kit, by default, spaces between terms behave like Boolean AND operators. See also search.
Industry:Software; Computer
