- Industry: Computer; Software
- Number of terms: 54848
- Number of blossaries: 7
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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 mechanism that controls access to the lock of a work loop, thereby serializing access to the data involved in I/O requests. A command gate does not require a thread context switch to ensure single-threaded access. IOCommandGate event-source objects represent command gates in the I/O Kit.
Industry:Software; Computer
A grouped series of numbers. Commonly represented either as a row of numbers [1, 2, 3, 4] or a column of numbers. It is analogous to an array.
Industry:Software; Computer
An offscreen graphics context, introduced in Mac OS X v10.4, suited for high-quality offscreen rendering of content that you plan to reuse.
Industry:Software; Computer
Code that makes use of available on-board vector processors. vImage uses vector code.
Industry:Software; Computer
A complete sound avenue, usually consisting of a preamp, a voltage amp, a power output, and power supply stages.
Industry:Others
The division of a ligature for hit-testing purposes into regions corresponding to each of its component glyphs.
Industry:Software; Computer
A description of the playback roles for the channels in an audio recording. For example, in a stereo recording, channel 1 has the role of “left front” and channel 2 has the role of “right front.”
Industry:Software; Computer
The process of converting a location within a line of display text into a caret offset in the source text of that line.
Industry:Software; Computer
