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Software development
The production of programs to be run on hardware.
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wide area network
Computer; Components
A communications network connecting geographically separated computers, printers, and other devices. A WAN enables any connected device to interact with any other on the network.
cascading menu
Computer; Components
A type of drop-down menu that appears when a user points to a command on a higher-level menu.
floating point
Computer; Components
A number represented by a mantissa and an exponent according to a given base. The mantissa is usually a value between 0 and 1. To find the value of a floating-point number, the base is raised to the ...
key attribute
Computer; Components
The attribute of a dimension that links the non-key attributes in the dimension to related measures.
bar of pie chart
Computer; Components
A pie chart with user-defined values extracted and combined into a stacked bar.
time horizon
Computer; Components
The maximum length of time for which future operations are planned.