- 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 electronic circuit in a computer that generates a steady stream of timing pulses--the digital signals that synchronize every operation. The system clock signal is precisely set by a quartz crystal, typically at a specific frequency between 1 and 50 megahertz. The clock rate of a computer is one of the prime determinants of its overall processing speed, and it can go as high as the other components of the computer allow.
Industry:Computer
Text that is displayed with multiple attributes such as typeface, slant, weight, and color. Formatting can include special effects such as shading, underlining, and blinking.
Industry:Computer
A database specifically structured for query and analysis. A data warehouse typically contains data representing the business history of an organization.
Industry:Computer
Pertaining to the remainder after all deductions, charges, or losses are subtracted from a total.
Industry:Computer
A user's right to perform a specific task, usually one that affects an entire computer system rather than a particular object. Privileges are assigned by administrators to individual users or groups of users as part of the security settings for the computer.
Industry:Computer
A path that is applied to another object, hiding the portions of the masked object which fall outside of the clipping path.
Industry:Computer
A process that measures the probability and consequences of risks and estimates their implications for project objectives.
Industry:Computer
A connection between an element in a hypertext document, such as a word, phrase, symbol, or image, and a different element in the document, another document, a file, or a script.
Industry:Computer
A set of intersecting lines or linear elements at right angles to each other.
Industry:Computer
