- Industry: Computer; Software
- Number of terms: 54848
- Number of blossaries: 7
- Company Profile:
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.
In image processing, a filter that shifts pixels along the x-axis to create an effect that’s similar to physical shearing.
Industry:Software; Computer
In reference to operating systems, a guarantee of a certain capability within a specified time constraint, thus permitting predictable, time-critical behavior. If the user defines or initiates an event and the event occurs instantaneously, the computer is said to be operating in real time. Real-time support is especially important for multimedia applications.
Industry:Software; Computer
A pair of identical keys used to encrypt and decrypt data. See also private key. Compare asymmetric keys.
Industry:Software; Computer
A digital audio transport standard defined by the Audio Engineering Society, originally published in 1992. Also called the AES/EBU interface. Equivalent to IEC 60958 Part 4. The AES-3 standard includes parts for various physical connections including balanced twisted-pair wire, unbalanced coaxial cable, and optical fiber. The technical inspiration for AES-3 was the S/PDIF standard.
Industry:Software; Computer
A QT atom inside a container atom, which is its parent atom. See also container atom, parent atom, QT atom.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Search Kit, an opaque data type representing an asynchronous search and containing its results, accumulated as they are found. A search object is of type SKSearchRef.
Industry:Software; Computer
With frameworks, schemes to implement backward and forward compatibility of frameworks. Versioning information is written into a framework’s dynamic shared library and is also reflected in the internal structure of a framework. See also major version, minor version.
Industry:Software; Computer
A frame shot from a movie, used to represent its content to the user.
Industry:Software; Computer
