- Industry: Computer
- Number of terms: 318110
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- 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.
A program, a script (manual or automated), a specific set of steps, or general instructions that can be run repeatedly against software, and that will yield a result such as pass, fail, or other results that resolve to pass or fail, such as inconclusive.
Industry:Computer
In Windows Media Player, a process to ensure that digital audio data is read from the CD-ROM drive accurately during playback or copying. Using error correction can prevent undesirable noises that are not part of the original material.
Industry:Computer
A format that allows books and other large texts to be downloaded from a Web site and viewed digitally.
Industry:Computer
A statement in which information is provided to government authorities for an official purpose, such as Intrastat reporting or tax reporting.
Industry:Computer
Any temporary storage space used within or in conjunction with a computer, such as RAM or a USB flash drive.
Industry:Computer
The study of computers, including their design, operation, and use in processing information. Computer science combines both theoretical and practical aspects of engineering, electronics, information theory, mathematics, logic, and human behavior.
Industry:Computer
User data to which rule conditions are applied. At design time, a fact is a reference to that data.
Industry:Computer
In programming, a collection of routines and data structures that performs a particular task or implements a particular abstract data type. Modules usually consist of two parts: an interface, which lists the constants, data types, variables, and routines that can be accessed by other modules or routines, and an implementation, which is private (accessible only to the module) and which contains the source code that actually implements the routines in the module.
Industry:Computer
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an electronic circuit or hardware grouping in which the configuration is determined by the physical interconnection of the components (as opposed to being programmable in software or alterable by a switch).
Industry:Computer
