- 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 inability of a computer system or related device to operate reliably or to operate at all.
Industry:Computer
A data mining technique that analyzes existing data and uses the results to predict values of attributes for new records or missing attributes in existing records. For example, existing credit application data can be used to predict the credit risk for a new application.
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
A power-saving state that saves your open documents and programs to your hard disk and then turns off your computer. When you’re ready to use the computer again, it comes out of hibernation in seconds and restores all of your open programs and documents that were saved. Of all the power-saving states that Windows uses, hibernation uses the least amount of power.
Industry:Computer
Items on either side of an operator in a formula. In Excel, operands can be values, cell references, names, labels, and functions.
Industry:Computer
The stylistic attributes of a font — such as bold, italic, and underline.
Industry:Computer
The difference (in decibels) between the quietest and loudest sounds in a single piece of audio content.
Industry:Computer
The secret half of a cryptographic key pair that is used with a public key algorithm. Private keys are typically used to decrypt a symmetric session key, digitally sign data, or decrypt data that has been encrypted with the corresponding public key.
Industry:Computer
