- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
- Number of blossaries: 26
- Company Profile:
An American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing.
The consistent vertical positioning of text, graphics, and other objects.
Industry:Software
The native unit of storage on a particular machine. A word is the largest amount of data that can be handled by the microprocessor in one operation and also, as a rule, is the width of the main data bus. Word sizes of 16 bits and 32 bits are the most common.
Industry:Software
Tiny Japanese kana characters written above or next to kanji characters. The kana characters indicate the correct pronunciation of the word written in kanji.
Industry:Software
The cost of retaining inventory, whether raw materials, components, or finished goods. Carrying cost typically is expressed as a percentage of inventory value per year or other time period.
Industry:Software
A selection that includes objects of different types or with different properties.
Industry:Software
To duplicate information and reproduce it in another part of a document, in a different file or memory location, or in a different medium. A copy operation can affect data ranging from a single character to large segments of text, a graphics image, or from one to many data files.
Industry:Software
A file that records transactional changes occurring in a database, providing a basis for updating a master file and establishing an audit trail.
Industry:Software
The process of calculating item net requirements at all levels and automatically generating planned orders to fulfill these requirements.
Industry:Software
A memory test employed to detect catastrophic failures and wiring problems within the memory chip and on the data bus by writing an alternating pattern of 0’s and 1’s to the memory chip.
Industry:Software
An attempt to run a memory operation that the underlying page protection does not allow. An access violation applies to memory operations, but does not apply when the security manager checks user-mode access rights to objects.
Industry:Software
