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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 distance between the end of one glyph’s advance and the next glyph’s real position.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

Adaptive delta pulse code modulation. A variant of pulse-code modulation, and an extension of DPCM, that varies quantization step size to minimize bit rate for a given dynamic range.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

A user in the admin group. The user who installs OS X is automatically assigned to the admin group. An administrator has fewer privileges than root, but more privileges than a normal user. An ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

A group with special administrative privileges. For example, only members of the admin group can open locked system preferences or install software.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

The virtual address ranges available to a given task (the task may be the kernel). In OS X, processes do not share the same address space. The address spaces of multiple processes can, however, point ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

A technology for managing names, addresses, phone numbers, and other contact-related information. OS X provides the Address Book application for users to manage contact data. It also provides the ...

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A model for extending a continuous selection using Shift-click, in which new text is added to a selection.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

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