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This Blossary defines terms that are used in the OS X Reference Library.Some of these terms are specific to OS X or other Apple products and technologies, while others are commonly used in computer-related endeavors.

Category: Technology

Company: Apple Inc.

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Created by: Karl Schaeffer

Number of Blossarys: 9

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The process by which an entity such as a user or a server gets the right to perform a privileged operation. (Authorization can also refer to the right itself, as in “Bob has the authorization to run ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

A server that has access to a store of authentication information and that can authenticate users. For example, an authentication server might verify a user’s identity by prompting the user for a ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

The act of verifying identity with something the user has, knows, or is. For example, a user knows information such as a name and password. The user may have something physical such as a smart card. ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

An Apple-supplied audio unit used to interface with hardware input or output, so named because it interacts with the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer).

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

A Component Manager–based Simulator that adds an audio feature to a Mac app. Audio units can provide effects such as filtering and reverb, MIDI-based music synthesis, audio data format conversions, ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

An iOS software abstraction that represents audio behavior for an application, in context, on an iPhone or iPod touch. An audio session has a category and can be active or inactive.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

In Audio Queue Services, a data structure used as a container for transient blocks of audio data being played or recorded. An audio queue buffer is managed by the audio queue that owns it.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

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