- 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.
Measured in ohms, impedance is the total opposition to the flow of alternating current in a circuit.
Industry:Consumer electronics
An object container that can be specified in an AppleScript script by context, rather than by an explicit reference. For example, explicitly specifying a word object in a document object might require this script reference: fourth word of text of front document . But if the application provides support for implicitly specifying the text container, the script reference can be simplified to this: fourth word of front document .
Industry:Software; Computer
In AppleScript, all the statements at the top level of a script except for property definitions, script object definitions, and other handlers. A single script object can include an explicit run handler or an implicit run handler, but not both.
Industry:Software; Computer
A control feature that forces a specific width onto the glyphs of a style run, regardless of its text content or other style properties.
Industry:Software; Computer
Java Message Service. A Java-based programming interface that implements an asynchronous message-exchange system. It facilitates the development of message-based applications. JMS is part of the J2EE platform.
Industry:Software; Computer
Java Native Interface. A technology for bridging C-based code with Java.
Industry:Software; Computer
A thread whose resources are not reclaimed immediately upon termination. Joinable threads must be explicitly detached or be joined by another thread before the resources can be reclaimed. Joinable threads provide a return value to the thread that joins with them.
Industry:Software; Computer
JavaServer Pages. A technology that facilitates the development of dynamic web pages and web applications that use existing components, such as JavaBeans and WebObjects components.
Industry:Software; Computer
The process of typographically expanding or compressing a line of text to fit a text width.
Industry:Software; Computer