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This Blossary defines terms that are used in the OS X Reference Library.Some of these terms are specific to OS X or other Apple products and technologies, while others are commonly used in computer-related endeavors.

Category: Technology

Company: Apple Inc.

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Created by: Karl Schaeffer

Number of Blossarys: 9

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A launch operation in which control returns immediately to the calling program, without waiting for the launched application to complete its launch sequence.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

The principle of organizing an application around blocks of code that can be run concurrently with an application’s main thread or other threads of execution. Asynchronous tasks are started by one ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

In Audio Queue Services, describes one of two ways to stop an audio queue. Asynchronous stopping happens after all queued buffers have been played or recorded. (2) In digital communications, a ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

A pair of related but dissimilar keys, one used for encrypting and the other used for decrypting a message or other data. See also public key cryptography.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

An AppleScript statement that assigns a value to a variable. Assignment statements use the copy or set commands.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

The width-to-height ratio of an image. For example, a 4:3 aspect ratio means the horizontal size is a third again wider than the vertical size. Every title on a DVD is authored for one of two aspect ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology Collected Term

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A 7-bit character set (commonly represented using 8 bits) that defines 128 unique character codes.

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