- 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 value, such as an integer or a constant, that does not contain other values.
Industry:Software; Computer
A drawing environment defined by a CGContextRef for Quartz 2D. The drawing environment contains all the information needed to translate drawing operations from bits in memory to the appropriate destination format (onscreen pixels, PDF, PostScript).
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) A series of statements, written in a scripting language such as AppleScript or Perl, that instruct an application or the operating system to perform various operations. Interpreter programs translate scripts. (2) A method for depicting words visually. Some examples of scripts are Latin, Greek, Hiragana, Katakana, and Han.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In Mach, an object used to abstract time. (2) The regular, periodic signal in a digital audio system used to pace audio recording and playback.
Industry:Software; Computer
The difference between an original analog signal value and its quantized digital representation. Quantization can sometimes results in a signal-correlated noise called quantization noise. See also dither.
Industry:Software; Computer
A lightweight reference to files and folders in Mac OS Standard (HFS) and Mac OS Extended (HFS+) file systems. An alias allows multiple references to files and folders without requiring multiple copies of these items. Aliases are not as fragile as symbolic links because they identify the volume and location on disk of a referenced file or folder; the file or folder can be moved around without breaking the alias. See also symbolic link.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In OpenGL, a set of OpenGL state variables that affect how drawing is performed for a drawable object attached to that context. Also called a rendering context. (2) In the Mac OS X printing system, a pointer to a custom data structure that contains state information shared among the functions in a printing dialog extension.
Industry:Software; Computer
A condition that the target computer or volume of an installation must meet in order for the installation to take place. The two types of installation requirements are system requirements and volume requirements.
Industry:Software; Computer
An alternate form of a glyph whose use depends on the glyph’s placement in a word.
Industry:Software; Computer
Features that are applied to a glyph depending on the glyph’s position relative to adjacent glyphs. Compare noncontextual features.
Industry:Software; Computer
