- 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.
Authorization to perform operations associated with a specific shared resource, such as a file, directory, or printer. Permissions must be granted by the system administrator to individual user accounts or administrative groups.
Industry:Computer
A logic chip that is programmed by the customer, not the manufacturer. Like a gate array, a PLD is a collection of logic gates. Unlike a gate array, a PLD does not need to be programmed as part of the manufacturing process.
Industry:Computer
An output stream typically used by programs to output error messages or diagnostics.
Industry:Computer
An artificial language that specifies instructions to be executed on a computer. The term covers a wide spectrum, from binary-coded machine language to high-level languages.
Industry:Computer
The process of rewriting parts of a file to contiguous sectors on a hard disk to increase the speed of access and retrieval.
Industry:Computer
A mathematical or graphical representation of a real-world situation or object. For example, a mathematical model of the distribution of matter in the universe, a spreadsheet (numeric) model of business operations, or a graphical model of a molecule.
Industry:Computer
The ActiveX Database Objects (ADO) object used to contain a result set. It also exhibits cursor behavior depending on the recordset properties set by an application. ADO recordsets are mapped to OLE DB rowsets.
Industry:Computer
The person in charge of managing a Windows computer. The administrator is responsible for installing software, assigning passwords, and managing files.
Industry:Computer
