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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.
Non-uniform rational B-spline. A methodology use to specify parametric curves and surfaces.
Industry:Software; Computer
Nonvolatile RAM. RAM storage that retains its state even when the power is off. See also RAM.
Industry:Software; Computer
The highest frequency signal that can be faithfully recorded for a given sampling rate. Attempts to sample a signal containing higher frequencies results in the generation of an alias signal below the Nyquist frequency. The Nyquist frequency is half the sampling rate. See also visual context.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In object-oriented programming, a programming unit that groups together a data structure (fields) and the operations (methods) that can use or affect that data. Objects are the principal building blocks of object-oriented programs. (2) In Mach, a collection of data, with permissions and ownership. (3) In AppleScript, an instantiation of a class definition, which can include properties and actions. (4) A group of bright, high-intensity pixels in an image, as opposed to the darker pixels, which are considered part of the background.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, the hierarchy of objects in a running application. AppleScript and Cocoa scripting depend on the object containment hierarchy to locate the objects on which to perform an operation. See also AppleScript object model.
Industry:Software; Computer
A file containing executable code and data. Object files in the Mach-O executable format take the suffix.oand are the product of compilation using the GNU compiler ( gcc ). Multiple object files are typically linked together along with required frameworks to create a program. See also code fragment, dynamic linking.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, a command that invokes a specified method of each specified receiver. With an object-first command, objects perform the specified action on themselves. Compare verb-first command.
Industry:Software; Computer
In WebObjects, the graph of objects (especially enterprise object instances) that are contained by EOEditingContext objects.
Industry:Software; Computer
In WebObjects, a system for transforming Entity-Relationship models to an object-oriented programming framework. Enterprise Objects performs object-relational mapping (mapping database structures to Java objects) with the help of Entity-Relationship models called EOModels. See also Entity-Relationship modeling.
Industry:Software; Computer
An object-oriented programming language based on standard C and a runtime system that implements the dynamic functions of the language. The few Objective-C extensions to the C language are mostly based on Smalltalk, one of the first object-oriented programming languages. Objective-C is available in the Cocoa application environment.
Industry:Software; Computer
