- 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.
Model-View-Controller. A design pattern that assigns objects in an application to one of three roles and recommends a distinct separation among model, view, and controller objects. This is one of the central design patterns for Cocoa applications.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Mach, a form of named memory entry that provides a form of memory sharing.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Mach, a port that allows access to nonprivileged operations against an object (for example, obtaining information about the object). In effect, it provides a name for the object without providing any significant access to the object. See also port, control port.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, a reference form that specifies an object by name—that is, by the value of its name property.
Industry:Software; Computer
A handle (a port) to a mappable object backed by a memory manager. The object can be a region or a memory object.
Industry:Software; Computer
Network address translation. A scheme that transforms network packets at a gateway so network addresses that are valid on one side of the gateway are translated into addresses that are valid on the other side.
Industry:Software; Computer
The curve type—cubic or quadratic—used by a font designer to specify a font.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, the bar along the top of the text editor that contains a number of controls that you can use to move between open files, jump to symbols, and open related files.
Industry:Software; Computer
A layout in which the glyphs on a line do not naturally fit within the line width set by the developer.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, a control statement that is contained within another control statement.
Industry:Software; Computer
