- 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.
An operator that derives a new value from a single value.
Industry:Software; Computer
The rules associated with the data in a database that typically encode business policies. An example is automatically adding late fees for overdue items.
Industry:Software; Computer
Root mean square. A statistical measure of a time-varying value, such as voltage, current, or sound pressure. An RMS value is derived as the square root of the mean of the squares of a series of values. In the case of a continuously varying value, it is derived from an integration of the transfer function. For the special case of a sine wave signal, the calculation simplifies to Vrms = 0.707 * Vpeak. May also be written in lowercase as rms.
Industry:Software; Computer
A database containing the set of rules the Security Server uses to determine authorization.
Industry:Software; Computer
A part of the Enterprise Objects optimistic locking mechanism, in which snapshots of database rows in memory are compared with the data in the database.
Industry:Software; Computer
A control for viewing areas of a document or a list that is larger than can fit in the current window. Only the active window can be scrolled. A window can have a horizontal scroll bar, a vertical scroll bar, both, or neither.
Industry:Software; Computer
The hierarchy of objects that AppleScript searches to find the target for a command or the definition of a term.
Industry:Software; Computer
The process of converting an object from one class to another. For example, an integer value can be coerced into a real value. Also, the software that performs such a conversion. Also known as object conversion.
Industry:Software; Computer
In relational databases, a mechanism to ensure that, within a given context, only one object is associated with each row in the database.
Industry:Software; Computer
