- Industria: 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 lock that can be locked multiple times by the same thread.
Industry:Software; Computer
Said of code that can process multiple interleaved requests for service nearly simultaneously. For example, a reentrant function can begin responding to one call, be interrupted by other calls, and complete them all with the same results as if the function had received and executed each call serially.
Industry:Software; Computer
The process of modifying source code for the purpose of improving its readability and maintainability while retaining the program’s functionality and behavior. See also transformation.
Industry:Software; Computer
An arbitrary data item available for use by a program to convey information for its own purposes in an operation or data structure.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Core Audio, for a panner unit, a parameter that specifies the real or apparent distance of an audio source from the listener beyond which the source’s level attenuates.
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, the syntax for identifying an object or group of objects in an application or other container—that is, the syntax for constructing an object specifier. AppleScript defines reference forms for arbitrary, every, filter, ID, index, middle, name, property, range, and relative.
Industry:Software; Computer
In relational databases, the rules governing the consistency of relationships.
Industry:Software; Computer
In relational databases, a relationship within the same entity; the relationship’s source join attribute and destination join attribute are in the same entity.
Industry:Software; Computer