- 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.
The visual representation of the text of a text layout object. Display text consists of a sequence of glyphs, arranged in display order. Compare source text.
Industry:Software; Computer
In surround sound and immersive audio, the real or apparent straight line distance of an audio source from the listener.
Industry:Software; Computer
Also referred to as clipping, distortion is a change in an audio signal resulting in the appearance of frequencies at the output that were not present in the original waveform. Distortion is commonly caused by applying a signal that is too powerful for an amp, speaker, or other electronic device to adequately handle.
Industry:Consumer electronics
An object that lays out the buffer ranges in a memory descriptor in physical memory, generating a scatter/gather list suitable for a particular device or DMA engine. The object is derived from the IOMemoryCursor class. See also DMA, memory descriptor.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Xcode, a build that uses several computers to compile source files.
Industry:Software; Computer
A metapackage that contains a distribution script that specifies the installation experience for a product. Distribution packages provide a streamlined packaging experience for developers and an enhanced installation experience for users. See also distribution script, metapackage.
Industry:Software; Computer
A specification that allows qualifying element names by associating element-name prefixes to URIs.
Industry:Software; Computer
An XML file with the extension .dist that contains all the information that defines an installation experience in a distribution package. See also distribution package.
Industry:Software; Computer
In audio, a low-amplitude noise applied to a signal to reduce quantization error. See also quantization noise.
Industry:Software; Computer
A WebObjects development approach that allows you to create graphical user interface applications that run on the user’s computer and communicate with a WebObjects server.
Industry:Software; Computer
