- Industry: Computer; Software
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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 one-way (send or receive) connection point in a hardware-based or virtual MIDI network. Each port can support up to 16 channels of MIDI data. In Core MIDI, a port is represented abstractly in software by a MIDI endpoint. See also MIDI.
Industry:Software; Computer
Enterprise JavaBeans. A specification that provides an infrastructure through which data-based components can be developed and deployed in a variety of platforms.
Industry:Software; Computer
(1) In an XML file, such as a scripting definition file, a tag-delimited unit of data. (2) In Core Audio, an audio unit programming context nested within a scope. When part of an input or output scope of an audio unit, an element is analogous to a device signal bus—and is sometimes called a bus. See also audio unit, scope. (3) In a scripting definition file (or an AppleScript dictionary viewer), a characteristic of an object that refers to a contained collection of related objects. Synonymous with a key-value coding to-many relationship. A document object might have a graphics element (or to-many relationship).
Industry:Software; Computer
In surround sound and immersive audio, the real or apparent vertical angle of an audio source referenced to a line drawn from a listener’s head to a point directly ahead of the listener.
Industry:Software; Computer
Three unspaced periods that appear in menus, buttons, and other controls to indicate that additional information will be required to complete the command. Generate an ellipsis with Option-semicolon.
Industry:Software; Computer
Graphics, sound, or movie data that is in a text object along with text data.
Industry:Software; Computer
A command embedded in textual input that a speech synthesizer interprets and applies to the pronunciation of the spoken version.
Industry:Software; Computer
Mach interface generator. A language for generating RPC (remote procedure call) interfaces for interprocess communication between Mach tasks.
Industry:Software; Computer
External Memory Management Interface. Mach’s interface to memory objects that allows their contents to be contributed by user-mode tasks. See also external pager.
Industry:Software; Computer
