- 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.
An absolute (machine) address specifying a physical location in memory.
Industry:Computer
Data that is returned as a result of a transformation procedure.
Industry:Computer
A 16-byte value generated from the unique identifier on a device, the current date and time, and a sequence number. It is used to identify a particular device, component, user, or session.
Industry:Computer
A version that is ready for a larger group to see or that has changed significantly since the previous major version.
Industry:Computer
The ability of a system or device to be usable when it is needed. When expressed as a percentage, high availability is the actual service time divided by the required service time. Although high availability does not guarantee that a system will have no downtime, a network often is considered highly available if it achieves 99.999 percent network uptime.
Industry:Computer
The machine code between the entry point for an assembly language routine and the code for its first executable statement. Prolog sets up the stack frame and preserves certain register values.
Industry:Computer
A collection of attributes that provide an indication of a person's status, activity, location, willingness to communicate, and contact information.
Industry:Computer
A calculation to determine whether a customer's outstanding balance is within the maximum credit allowed for that customer.
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
The handle on an object's selection rectangle that you drag to shear the object.
Industry:Computer
